Before he was a Tea Partier, Marco Rubio was just a plain old hard partier. His new memoir, An American Son, is out today, and while reviews seem to indicate it’s what you might call sort of boring and politically safe, Florida’s junior Senator does admit to drinking and partying…
Robert Platshorn served thirty years in prison for smuggling pot into Florida. That’s more than any other person has served for a marijuana offense in the United States. He’ll turn 70 years old in November. But it now appears clear that he will never be free from the federal government…
Dr. Michael Salzhauer is a damn good plastic surgeon. He’s pretty damn controversial, too, thanks to his many publicity stunts. Earlier this year, he attained Internet infamy with a music video entitled “Jewcan Sam (A Nose Job Love Song).” Critics called him anti-Semitic.Now he’s at it again with a spoof…
Give Ronald Rolfes points for honesty. The heavyset, 31-year-old Georgia man was caught on Sunday secretly recording women undressing backstage during the Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant at the Fontainebleau Hotel. When police confronted him with the video evidence of his crimes, he had a simple explanation.”Man to man, I did…
That sound dinging across the state this Sunday isn’t just the litany of SunPass sensors going off on the Turnpike. It’s the fists of outraged drivers pinging off the ceiling. Tolls on all state roads will rise by 25 percent this weekend — from $1 to $1.25 — sparking road-fee…
The name Carl Bernstein is drilled into the heads of journalism students in J-schools across the country. He’s the Pulitzer Prize winner who uncovered the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward at The Washington Post. He is a journalism deity. He is also a man. Named Carl. Somehow, however, on Sunday…
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Jackson Memorial Hospital is on something of a streak. After holding a press conference updating the public on their successful treatment of face-eating victim Ronald Poppo, the hospital today revealed details to the public of how they managed to save a Miami teenager after he wound up with a spear…
Rudy Eugene, “the Miami Zombie,” is not a role model. We thought that much would be evident, but apparently 21-year-old Giovani Martinez decided he found him self a new hero after being arrested for a DUI. After being transported to a hospital, he threatened to eat the staffers’ faces “like…
David Groover, an elementary school principal in Osceola County, has been arrested on charges of providing methamphetamine and GHB to undercover cops. The 43-year-old educator now faces charges on multiple drug-related crimes. It’s not his first run in with the law while serving as principal. While principal at Partin Settlement…
In 2008 President Obama got the unprecedented support of Oprah Winfrey. This time around he can add the support of Cristina Saralegui, “the Latina Oprah,” to his campaign. It’s the first ever presidential endorsement from the Cuban-American media mogul.”This is a critical time for our country and for the Hispanic…
The Miami Heat shot 37 percent from the field last night. They turned the ball over nine times in the fourth quarter. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook both shot over 50 percent. Dwyane Wade’s performance was once again pure ass. Chris Bosh finished 3-for-12 from the field. LeBron James failed…
Remember when Donald Trump and his friends were all, “Obama can’t be president, he was secretly born in Kenya!” Then Obama released his original birth certificate from Hawaii and they were like, “Never mind!”If you thought that was the end of the argument, oh how wrong you were. The latest…
It’s the last stop for thousands of stray and abandoned cats and dogs in Miami-Dade: an aging building surrounded by gray warehouses in industrial Medley. On a recent morning, 20 new strays have already come in, including a shih tzu, a schnauzer, and a beagle. They’re just a handful of…
Five years ago, a naive, impressionable Kazakh named Bolat made his way to Miami, plunked down $1.2 million for a luxury condo, and paraded around Miami Beach in a lime-green Speedo stretched over his shoulders.OK, that last part might not be true. In fact, the real-life Bolat is far from…
Are you excited to take a behind the scenes look at the Miami Dolphins on HBO’s Hard Knocks? Because the players sure aren’t. Tight end Anthony Fasano says groans echoed through the locker room when the team was informed they’d be pulling double duty as reality TV stars…
OK, it’s not just A-Rod in LeBron’s corner anymore. None other than Michael Jordan thinks the Heat are going to win the championship this year. The legend didn’t make any sort of public pronouncement, but apparently that’s what was overheard last night when he took in the game at Haven…
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Tickets for game 5 of the NBA Finals here in Miami next Thursday went on sale online at noon today. By 12:01 p.m., the only tickets available were standing-room. By 12:04, even those spots — which started at $150 each — were gone.Finals tickets at American Airlines Arena aren’t easy…
A 60-year-old woman in Port St. Lucie was arrested after sexy times with her 45-year-old boyfriend turned violent. She asked her beau to get olive oil from the kitchen to use as lube, and when he got back also asked if he brought the PAM cooking spray. The man misunderstood…
God gave Juergen Heinricher a tree trunk for a neck. Brevard County Sheriff’s Deputies gave him a ride to jail.The 30-year-old Melbourne man was arrested after a nurse caught him skinny dipping in a pool with his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter, and then trying to lock the nurse in a bedroom…
A Department of Justice report slammed Miami-Dade County jails for their disgusting conditions back in August of 2011, and now ten months later it doesn’t appear anyone has bothered to clean up the place. A corrections officer at the Dade County jail in West Miami-Dade leaked photos of the still…
