The City of Miami looks ready to give Jungle Island another chance. The city has prepared an offer for the beleaguered amusement park, which recently admitted it was about to default on a loan, that could extend its lease and give the park more land on Watson Island.But before the…
Hope you weren’t expecting a package.A UPS driver today lost control of his truck, which hit a tree and then ended up plunging into Biscayne Bay. The demolished vehicle now sits submerged in water…
A proposed strip club in North Miami has been given the green light to serve liquor with its lap dances after a squeaker of a vote by the North Miami City Council. By a margin of 3-2, the council voted late Tuesday night to overturn a ban on selling alcohol…
LeBron James came out to one of his first standing ovations outside Miami last night in a long time on The Late Show with David Letterman, and in New York City of all places. Guess that ring really did do wonders for his image. Of course, once everyone sat down,…
Greyston Garcia, a 26-year-old Miami resident who beat a murder rap thanks to the craziest interpretation yet of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, was killed Tuesday by a stray bullet in a gang shooting. His death came three months after second-degree murder charges against him were dropped in the fatal stabbing of…
It seems that Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen went all fan girl when drafting up a Congressional resolution to congratulate the Miami Heat on their NBA championship, because the thing is actually the rare Congressional measure that’s a pleasure to read. It’s basically a manifesto on why the Heat are just so…
Forget LeBron. We’re going to go ahead and call James and Ruth Kauff the true heroes of the Miami Heat’s NBA Finals run. The Deerfield husband and wife were arrested at the Finals Game 4 against the since-vanquished Oklahoma Thunder after American Airlines Arena security busted them trying to use…
Barack Obama swept into town last night in full campaign mode. In a fundraiser at the Fillmore in Miami Beach, the president gave love to the crowd, props to the Heat, and a good ribbing to Republican rival Mitt Romney. (To read about Marc Anthony’s sultry pre-speech performance, click here.)During…
Doyce Dean Griffis has been sentenced to 17 and half years in prison for setting up a tanning salon in his barn and secretly recording his customers as they undressed. At least 20 of his victims were underage girls…
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The Heat’s 2012 NBA Championship was not only historic for giving LeBron James his first championship. A member of the University of Michigan’s Fab Five also finally netted a ring for the first time thanks to Juwan Howard. To celebrate yesterday inside the AAA, Howard dusted off some of his…
Barack Obama may have been the first sitting American president to announce his personal support of gay marriage. He may have repealed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and allowed gay citizens to serve openly in the armed forces. He may have been the first president to appoint a Transgendered…
According to recent reports, Venezuela has been supplying Iran with F-16s in an ominous arms trade that should make the rest of the world very queasy. And a federal indictment filed yesterday makes us wonder if any of those F-16 parts came from our back yard…
Four men were arrested yesterday on charges of recruiting underage girls in the foster care system to work as prostitutes in a Homestead brothel. Also mentioned in the same human trafficking investigation is Jean LaCroix, a Florida Department of Children and Families child protective investigator. He’s suspected of repeatedly having…
Senator Marco Rubio stopped by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night to promote his new memoir, An American Son. After some brief talk about Rubio’s time as a college football player at a now bankrupt school, the two got into some real “Senateyish” discussion. Yes, Marco Rubio coined…
This synthetic drug-induced zombie apocalypse is apparently now spreading outside of Florida. Naturally, Texas was the next stop. A man there got high on K-2, a form of synthetic marijuana, started chasing his neighbor, and then ate his dog…
It’s always exciting when the president of the United States comes to town, but the downside is that the motorcade ties up traffic. President Obama drops by once again tonight for a private fundraiser, followed by an event at the Fillmore Miami Beach with singer Marc Anthony. Here’s his itinerary…
When Charles Martin took over the South Beach AIDS Project (SoBAP) in 2005, he revamped the nonprofit’s outdated image by reaching out to young, gay blacks and Hispanics. He traveled to conferences around the world and pulled in state and federal grants to combat HIV.But in the past year, Martin…
Blogs like Gizmodo erupted this weekend when a YouTube video surfaced showing a hovering, flashing drone flying above the crowds at last month’s Memorial Day weekend in South Beach. The video was all the more eyebrow-raising because the Miami-Dade Police Department actually has a drone and is one of only…
The Miami Heat stormed through the streets of Miami this morning in a double-decker bus to celebrate their championship. It was their biggest public celebration since that welcoming party that for some reason seemed to piss a whole lot of people off, except this time no one can say it…
A suspected car thief and a Hialeah police officer are both in the hospital this afternoon after a chain of events involving a hit-and-run accident and a police-involved shooting. The officer, who has not yet been identified, attempted to stop what was believed to have been a stolen car near the…
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