Every year, America celebrates the birth of its own democracy with fireworks, so it only makes sense a pro-democracy group that helps newly arrived Cubans settle in Miami is on its way to put on a fireworks display off the coast of Cuba. Predictably, the Cuban government is none too…
Cops hear the stupidest excuses from people trying to get off the hook. Which is why it’s surprising that Fernando Villa, the Miami-Dade police officer arrested Tuesday for allegedly falling asleep drunk behind the wheel of his squad car, couldn’t come up with a better explanation for failing his roadside…
Today is finally the beginning of the NBA’s free-agency period, and with the Heat’s first game a little more than two weeks away, the team will have to work fast and furious to nail the roster down. We’ve already gotten news that Shane Battier and Eddy Curry will be new guys…
What real estate bust? The penthouse atop the Setai has sold for a cool $21.5 million, and the company behind the sale, Zilbert Realty Group, claims it’s the most expensive condo ever sold in Miami-Dade both by total bottom line and price per square foot. The pad boasts a seriously…
Lavont Flanders Jr., a 40-year-old former Miami Beach police officer, and 45-year-old Emerson Callum were convicted yesterday by a jury for drugging women, videotaping sex with them, and then selling those videos as pornography. The two could now face life in prison…
One of the perks in Congress is the right of “franking” — no, it has nothing to do with Barney Frank, tequila shots and a dark alley. It’s the ancient right to send constituents heaps of unwanted glossy fliers plastered with your grinning face at taxpayer expense. Franking is grossly…
Update: According to his arrest report, Villa blamed his sluggish responses on a concussion he suffered at least 13 years ago while playing high school baseball.It’s hard to believe after ATV crashes and poop smeared squad cars, but Miami law enforcement hit a new low on Tuesday.That’s when cops discovered…
Daily Show reporters aren’t that used to politicians outsmarting them, so kudos to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for staying one step ahead of the political pranksters.After Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi asked Gov. Rick Scott for a cup of his urine yesterday, Bondi must have been tipped off she’d be…
Rick Perry’s ridiculous anti-gay ad has started a political whirlwind that has resulted in the outing of Tony Fabrizio, a top Republican pollster who’s currently working for Perry, and in the past has worked for Gov. Rick Scott and, interestingly, gay rights groups.The revelation, or at least accusations, that Fabrizio…
The fight against the rise of destination casinos in South Florida just got two of its biggest supporters yet. Sitting Attorney General Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, both elected Republican members of the cabinet, announced their support of the No Casino campaign today.The two join a bipartisan group…
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The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is going to give us cold sweats the next time we’re driving through one of Miami-Dade County’s small towns. The daily paper — which Sunday reported that Florida’s statistically dirtiest cop is an Opa-locka officer — continued its “Unfit for Duty” series today with an analysis of how…
Shatevia Rice, an 18-year-old mother who went missing on Sunday has been found alive, but says she was kidnapped by a pimp who forced her into prostitution.Rice and her 6-month-old daughter Tamia were returned home safely this morning. Rice says she was kidnapped by a pimp who goes by the…
Susan Miller is mad as hell and she ain’t going to take it any more.The Key West resident has filed a class-action lawsuit against Delta for its “illegal” and “outrageous” lost luggage policy, claiming that the airline lost her bags and then lied to her about reimbursements to which she…
It’s only natural for a parent to feel protective of their children, but 33-year-old Rayshell Lavone Smith of Orlando took it a bit too far. After her middle school-aged daughter got into a Facebook fight with a fellow classmate, Smith jumped into the online fray and threatened to put a…
So you’re in your friend’s passenger seat cruising down I4 when you spot some cows grazing on farmland. You ask your friend to pull over for a second so you can whip out your iPhone and take a quick snapshot of the majestic bovines. Seems innocent enough? Well, Republican state…
So despite the fact that the Miami Heat are severely hurting in the point guard and center spots, their first signing priority this season was apparently the owner’s son’s college buddy.In the first indication of the team’s signing decisions, Shane Battier has announced he’ll be playing for the Heat this…
When Robert McGary’s houseboat washed up on a sandbar in a Florida channel a few months back, he liked the scenery so much that he refused to move. After police insisted he get back on the water, McGary went all Blackbeard, equating his dilapidated wreck to the Queen Anne’s Revenge,…
On Tuesday, the new .xxx domain went live on the Web, drawing in more than 100,000 adult sites. The man behind this new .xxx empire is a British millionaire living in South Florida who had to navigate an outraged Christian Right and outlast the Bush Administration to found his online…
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