Up until last night, the story of this Eastern Conference semi-final was Chris Bosh’s abdominal strain and how much the Heat would miss him. But after last night’s 94-75 blowout loss to the Pacers, the story is now how Dwyane Wade magically transformed into an amorphous blob of basketball shittiness…
Prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case released a stash of evidence to a mouth-watering press horde yesterday evening, making public hundreds of pages of witness testimony, medical reports and photos. The headline takeaways: Zimmerman was hurt (his nose broken and head bloodied) and a few neighbors told police he was…
For the first time, Facebook will put its stock up for public sale today. The company will instantly land at least $16 billion, pushing its value to well over $100 billion. Wunderkind CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be the obvious winner, but hundreds of other investors are also in line for…
Mitt Romney may preach smaller government, but he doesn’t mind the government getting all up in your body fluids. The Republican presidential candidate said today that he “doesn’t disagree” with Florida Governor Rick Scott’s controversial plan to drug test state workers…
Is one of baseball’s biggest Twitter addicts calling it quits? Ozzie Guillen just posted a cryptic Tweet suggesting it was his last one ever. If true, it suggests that it really is a new era for Ozzie. One in which he’ll be keeping his mouth closed more often and most…
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Joaquin Serrapio Jr., the 20-year-old Miami college student who threatened to kill President Barack Obama in messages posted on Facebook and Twitter, will now plead guilty in the case. Serrapio, a local bar band musician who also went by the name of Jay Valor, wrote on Facebook back in February…
Only in a country like Venezuela with such tight and ridiculous controls on press freedom could a crossword writer be accused of embedding a call to kill the president’s brother in a puzzle. Perez Pirela, a TV pundit who is something like a pro-Chavez Glenn Beck, made the accusation against veteran crossword…
If you’re a government worker claiming to have been injured on the job and seeking workers’ comp benefits, it’s a good idea to at least pretend to be injured. Jacquelyn V. Myers, a 55-year-old postal worker stationed in Tallahassee, was caught running in the world’s most famous marathon — all…
A United States District Judge based in Miami has disqualified two attorneys from the Morgan & Morgan law firm from a case after the opposing counsel complained, among other things, that one of the lawyers drew pictures of male genitalia and openly played Angry Birds during depositions…
Insurance fraud is a really tough crime to prove, especially when scammers deliberately set fires. To show it’s arson, all kinds of experts have to do painstaking analysis on burn patterns and chemical traces. It’s incredibly time consuming and difficult.That’s assuming, of course, that the crooks aren’t total morons who…
Photo by Eric BartonPhillips served as his own attorney for years while A trying to prove his innocence.A federal judge declined today to release a man from prison where he is serving a 24-year term on drug charges, despite the fact that prosecutors have agreed to drop the charges against…
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Are you a Miami sports fan who sometimes like to get high and look at weird things online (because if you come to Riptide for sports news, then you very well might be)? Well, it’s been a good few weeks for you. Just after some weird “Dolphinception” video hit the…
The 14,000-person, Miami-Dade town of Sweetwater doesn’t find itself in the news often, but it did get some headlines for being the first city in the entire nation to ban “fake marijuana,” and boy do they love to brag about. In fact, apparently Miami-Dade is mulling over the possibility of…
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Ronald Miranda, one of the FBI’s most wanted men who disappeared for 31 years only to resurface in Florida City, will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. The 65-year-old was convicted last month of the 1980 murder of Mitch Arambel in Los Banos, California. Yesterday a judge…
Last night’s playoff game between the Heat and Pacers was more tense than a Basketball Wives reunion episode, and Dwyane Wade exhibited some very un-Wade like sportsmanship when he got called on a flagrant foul for colliding with the Pacers’ Darren Collison. Some are calling for a suspension, but an…
Most of us would expect to get fired for sucking at our jobs, and Isiah Thomas’s 26-65 record as head coach of Florida International University’s men’s basketball program makes a strong case that he sort of sucked at his job. Thomas, however, had a contract, and the contract didn’t mention…
