In 1972, a nonprofit group came up with a brilliant idea: Create a three-mile-long artificial reef off the South Florida coast using 2 million old tires. Goodyear donated the rubber, Broward County forked over the funds, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed off. The plan quickly went to…
President Barack Obama was just at the University of Miami, so you’d think that his staff could get the name of the school correct. Apparently not. The White House sent out a press release today describing University of Miami president Donna Shalala as “President of Miami University.”Miami University is a…
Yeah, yeah, we all know the Fox News Channel is hardly an accurate or impartial news source and is practically an official wing of the Republican Party (or is the GOP a wing of Fox News? Who knows anymore), but rarely is one of their employees so blatant about it…
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Harry Agustin Duncan Maslivar, the winner of the male beauty pageant title of Mr. Panama 2004, looks pretty good in black and white stripped swim trunks. He probably won’t looks quite as good in black and white stripped prison garb though. That’s what he’s facing after being popped for trying…
A Jacksonville man headed to the Bottom Upz strip club this weekend with hopes of seeing the ladies deprived of their clothes. Apparently something went horribly wrong and he was the one who ended up without his clothes, and without his truck…
Someday, Carlos Bertonatti will have to face a jury to explain what happened in the early morning of Jan. 17, 2010 — the day police say he drunkenly killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway, then sped away into Key Biscayne with the victim’s bike still wedged underneath his car…
So, Peyton Manning has chosen to play for the Denver Broncos, which officially ends the reign of Tebowmania in Colorado.What does that mean for the Dolphins? The sports media has already cued up the Tebow-to-Miami talks. We’d rather they hit the kill button. Nothing about that makes sense…
While most of America was belligerently chanting about the luck of the Irish this weekend, one Ireland was having what might have been the worst weekend of his professional life: Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland. He officially lost Peyton Manning, and then he missed out on Matt Flynn too.Now, Steelers…
A woman walking to her car after Aventura Mall closed last night made a gruesome discovery: the body of a dead man. Now police have confirmed that the man committed suicide by jumping from the top of one mega-mall’s parking garages…
About a year ago, pharmacy chain CVS and its Pembroke Pines employee Lisa Conteh were named in one of South Florida’s most bizarre lawsuits. Outlets from MSNBC to Univision reported that Conteh was accused of accosting and trapping a 13-year-old girl in the pharmacy’s bathroom — and then forcing her…
The eternal war between righteous Christians and smarmy nonbelievers has a new ground zero: rural Highway 98 in Polk County, Florida. First, a religious group called Polk Under Prayer blessed the Central Florida asphalt strip with “holy oil” to protect the county from Satan, “evildoers” and “the drug crowd.” This…
The hate hit Sarah Spiegel’s YouTube account early last week, calling her an idiot and a hack and suggesting that she join her favorite team, the Miami Marlins, in just going straight to hell. Spiegel’s crime? Taking almost two weeks out of her singing career to pen a new ode…
Reid Welch, the self-appointed nemesis of Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff who once told Riptide, “I inhale propane gas to get high, but I am not the least bit nutty,” has been arrested once again. Welch has been charged with aggravated stalking for breaking a restraining order that ordered him…
How pathetic are the Dolphins’ front office? They couldn’t even secure a meeting with Peyton Manning on their own and had to enlist the help of Dan Marino. Yep, despite not having played for the ‘Fins for 13 years and not having any official affiliation with the team, Marino continues…
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Ivanna Villanueva, the 19-year-old who struck and killed a 68-year-old woman last October while allegedly under the influence, wants to do community service. The hitch: She wants to do it at Ultra Music Festival next weekend, and the family members of her victim are none too pleased…
It’s been almost three weeks now since Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old from Miami, was shot to death by a neighborhood watchman in his father’s Orlando-area suburb. Yet by George Zimmerman, the self proclaimed watchman, remains free. He claims he acted in self defense, a position bolstered by the state’s Stand…
Once again, the University of Miami’s women’s basketball team is a third seed in the NCAA tournament, and once again President Barack Obama has snubbed them. Just like last year, the president predicts the Lady Canes will make a second round exit against a sixth seed team, this time at…
Peyton Manning has officially told the Miami Dolphins he won’t be suiting up in aqua and orange next season. It’s another embarrassing failure for owner Stephen Ross and GM Jeff Ireland, and there’s even some suggestions that Manning only took the meeting with the Fins as a favor to Dan…
Before he moved to Florida, David Young was an American hero: A Green Beret, a Gulf War vet and a Bronze Star recipient. The vet was once among the nation’s youngest state legislators after winning a seat in his native New Hampshire’s state House at the age of 21. Two…
When Fidel Castro swept down from the mountains and routed Fulgencio Batista’s forces, one of the first things his revolutionary regime did was to seize the property of American citizens and companies.In the more than 50 years since, nearly 6,000 American citizens have filed certified claims against the Cuban government…
