305 Photo of the Day: Funky Lil’ Shack
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Showing 16897 - 16918 of 31945Otis Wallace, Mayor of Florida City, Investigated By FBI and Miami-Dade Public Corruption Unit
When Otis T. Wallace became mayor of dirt-poor Florida City back in 1984, the desegregation hero was one of the first black politicians elected in the entire state. Nearly 30 years later, however, Wallace is still in office but his leadership has lost its luster.A two-month investigation by the New…
The Chad Henne Era is Over for the Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins will have no more Chads hanging around next season. According to the Sun-Sentinel, the Dolphins are expected to part ways with quarterback Chad Henne officially next month. He now joins the long list of Dolphins QBs who’ve failed to live up to the legend of Dan Marino…
Jacksonville Church Hires Registered Sex Offender as Pastor, Bans Children from Service
The Lord may be forgiving. Sex offender laws? Not so much.A Baptist church in Jacksonville has hired a registered sex offender as its new pastor, but because a court has ruled the he’s not allowed to have “unsupervised contact with children under 18 years old,” the church has decided to…
Florida Bill Would Require Schools to Teach 9/11
Though it was more than ten years ago now, the September 11th terrorist attacks still seem fresh in the minds of most Americans, but now there are kids in school who weren’t even alive during the attacks. So, Sen. Thad Altman, R-Melbourne, has introduced a bill in the Florida Senate…
LeBron James Likes Appletinis, And Other Revelations From a Cleveland Waitress
The world already knows that LeBron James is a shitty tipper, thanks to the investigative sleuths of the Cleveland Scene. A few years ago, that alt-weekly newspaper exposed that The King left a ten dollar gratuity on an $800 steakhouse bill for himself and teammates. Now the Scene has published…
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Tip Drill’s Injuries: Stripper Sidekick Skrawberry Says “Her Bones All Fractured”
Saturday morning, Tip Drill, Miami’s most famous stripper, took a horrific onstage dive at King of Diamonds and was hospitalized. Hip-hop websites and Twitter accounts have been buzzing about the accident since. Yesterday afternoon we spoke to her longtime sidekick, fellow political pundit and moonlighting rapper Skrawberry, who says…
Alina Fernandez, Fidel’s Daughter, Isn’t So Sure Castro Has Found Jesus
The headlines ripped through Little Havana earlier this month: “Fidel Castro has found Jesus.” The source of this shocking news: Fidel’s Miami-based daughter, Alina Fernandez, who gave an interview to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The paper also tracked down a Vatican source who said Pope Benedict XVI expects to take…
Florida Teacher Anne Wampole Suspended for Being at School Super Drunk
There are only a handful of jobs where working under the influence of alcohol may be a benefit: stripper, news blogger, game show host. High school teacher certainly isn’t one of them, as Bayshore High School’s Anne Wampole has found out the hard way…
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Marco Rubio Tops Vice Presidential Poll
Marco Rubio has certainly been mentioned several times by Republican candidates as a possible running mate, and it appears that GOP voters agree. Fairleigh Dickinson University released the findings of a poll today in which they asked 799 registered Republicans across the country who they’d like to see be their…
305 Photo of the Day: Wings and Waves
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Jeb Bush Should Get Into Presidential Race, Top GOP Senator Says
The Republican primary is officially in chaos now with Rick Santorum surging and topping Mitt Romney in some national polls. The former Pennsylvania senator is even leading in Romney’s home state of Michigan, but some in the GOP establishment aren’t quite sure Santorum is presidential material. One anonymous GOP senator…
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Miami International Was the Fastest Growing American Airport in 2011
In what should be good news for the local tourism industry, Miami International Airport was the fastest growing major American airport in terms of passenger growth this year. That makes MIA the 12th busiest airport in the country with 38.3 million passengers passing through its gates last year…
Florida Man Claims He’s Half Orangutan and Director of the CIA After Being Arrested
Mark Loescher tried to tell police he couldn’t go to jail. See, Loescher is actually half orangutan and needed to get to the “Fusion Center” as soon as possible to check on his monkey blood. All of this is actually a matter of national importance too, since Loescher also claims…
Miami’s Arab Spring: Anti-Assad, Pro-Syrian Freedom Rally Downtown
Tyrannical Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad’s goons would likely shoot, beat, or torture his countrymen for a similar action, but Miami’s pro-freedom Syrian-Americans are proud to flex their democratic right to assemble and protest.Sunday afternoon saw a pan-Arabian rally by Syrians, Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, and other Americans at an anti-Assad…
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Heat Win Sixth-Straight, Bill Clinton is Impressed
Dwyane Wade blew the ass off of the Orlando Magic’s defense yesterday, dropping 27 points on them and leading the Miami Heat to the 98-71 victory while former President Bill Clinton watched courtside doing that white-man’s overbite thing he does when he sees something impressive. When these teams met two weeks…
Little Havana Homeless Man Chops Off Cat Tails With a Machete
In Little Havana, a machete-wielding homeless dude is terrorizing the feline community. Or so says Eric Onassis, a former salsa dancer extraordinaire and keeper of pet squirrels in the same neighborhood. In 2009, Onassis was at the dominoes-slamming intersection of SW Eighth Street and 16th Avenue when a cat peed on…
Stripper Tip Drill Reportedly Hospitalized After Fall at King Of Diamonds
Tip Drill, perhaps Miami’s most famous stripper, was reportedly hospitalized after some sort of accident during her death-defying act at King at Diamonds last night. Few details are available right now, but the news has so shaken Miami that Tip Drill’s name is trending locally on Twitter right now…
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Hit-and-Run Driver Michele Traverso’s Drug Test Comes Back Clean
Michele Traverso, the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway, made his first appearance in court this morning and voluntarily submitted to a drug test. Despite previous arrests for possession of marijuana and cocaine, Traverso’s drug test came back clean…
LeBron Says He’s Not Planning On Leaving Miami Anytime Soon
Yesterday, LeBron James said he could one day see himself playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers again. Predictably, that didn’t go over too well with his current fans here in Miami, so James is on damage control today and promises he loves us and won’t leave us. Yet, anyway…
305 Photo of the Day: Tipsy
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Dumb Kid Steals Tomato Plant Because He Thought It Was Marijuana
Sometimes we really worry about the state of Florida’s youth. Kids today are so dumb they can’t even get high correctly.A 15-year-old boy in Daytona Beach, Florida, recently got in trouble for stealing a tomato plant, which he only swiped because he thought it was a marijuana plant…