So we know that Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant was in some sort of altercation outside LIV nightclub at the Fontainebleau on Saturday, and that’s, well, about it. Rumors, aided by a Miami Herald reporter, suggested that the altercation somehow involved Lil Wayne. Though, this morning Bryant Tweeted a…
Apparently, at Orchard Villa Elementary near Liberty City, if you see a student wearing something fancy you’d like to get your hands on, you can just go to the front office, pretend to be the child’s relative, check them out of class, and then grab whatever it is you want…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement spent $330 back in October on Jim Beam whiskey, mixers and some Doritos. Fifteen employees then proceeded to get drunk on company time. Sounds like the makings of an office party, no? Not so much. The ill advised plan was part of a makeshift study…
A bill that would criminalize undercover footage of animal farms and slaughter facilities is on the floor of the State Senate, and has a good chance of being passed into law. Which means it would be up to only licensed law enforcement officials to discover abuses on local farms. Which…
Late on Tuesday, three Florida state senators — Mike Haridopolos, John Thrasher and Mike Fasano — pushed through a resolution honoring so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” a symbolic gesture that has outraged the abortion rights movement. The problem, advocates say, is that such centers have religious, not medical, aims and often…
Next time someone tells you, “Eh, this recession hasn’t sucked that much in Miami,” whip out this interactive economic graphic report that the Brookings Institute just published. The think tank’s conclusions are stunning: Of 200 global cities they analyzed, Miami’s economy was harder hit by the recession than all but…
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