Teachers looking for late homework are used to hearing the excuse “the dog ate it.” People looking to collect car payments, not so much. But in the case of one St. Augustine couple, it’s the truth.Tuity, a Labrador retriever/chow/bulldog mix, decided to chow down on the $1,000 in cash his…
All it took was word that Rep. Connie Mack IV was about to enter the GOP primary for the parties’ Senate nomination to finally heat up that sad race. Despite the fact that Mack hasn’t officially announced his candidacy, he now leads the latest Quinnipiac poll by 23 points. George LeMieux…
Today is supposed to be the big day for the newly re-named Miami Marlins. Tonight the team unveils its new uniforms and, perhaps, a new blockbuster signing.But at least five players on the 40-man roster probably won’t be celebrating. Their fellow countryman and ballplayer Wilson Ramos was kidnapped on Wednesday…
On stage in Tampa, local comedian Jeffrey Lluis told the audience that his relationship with Johnny Law wasn’t fantastic: “As you just heard, I’m on probation,” he says in a routine uploaded to YouTube. “I lost my job recently … things got kind of complicated around the office after the…
Remember Miami-teen Angie Varona? She was the girl who unwittingly became an internet sex symbol at the age of 14 after her Photobucket account was hacked and her scantily clad, though not explicit, photos made the rounds on some of the seedier parts of the internet. Well, ABC News’ Nightline…
While several anti-Wall Street sit-ins around the country have devolved into violent stand-offs between police and protesters, Occupy Miami has been as peaceful as can be.Now, however, Miami-Dade County is revoking the protesters permit for Government Center.”The city is trying to get us to move camp tomorrow,” Occupy Miami organizers…
DeQuan Jones, a University of Miami men’s basketball player, will sit out the entire 2011-2012 season as investigators look into Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro’s claims that he paid Jones’ family to secure his commitment. Jones was the only current basketball player named in the Yahoo! Sports investigation into Shapiro’s ties to…
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$100 million judgment in a civil lawsuit against Rev. Neil Dohetry, a former Catholic priest with the Archdiocese of Miami. Although the money might be impossible to collect, the judgment is the biggest ever levied in a case concerning the sexual abuse of children by a priest. …
The apparent ongoing fight between City of Miami Police officers and Florida Highway Patrol troopers is both sickening and pathetic. These are people paid with taxpayer money to protect Dade County. Not get into to pissing matches.The MPD has declared that no such rivalry exists, but just yesterday the department…
Few pastoral visits caused as much controversy as Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit to Cuba. Catholic exiles worried that the Pope’s visit to the island would further legitimize Fidel Castro’s dictatorship, and images of the two shaking hands was not a welcome site for many in Miami.Now, the Vatican…
Yesterday we half-wondered if a poll that showed Herman Cain once again leading the GOP pack in Florida was something of an outlier. Well, now a new Quinnipiac poll released this morning and conducted from October 31st to November 7th shows that despite new news of Cain’s habit of settling…
As hundreds of spectators on Mallory Pier watched in horror in Key West yesterday, a powerboat skipping across the water during the Super Boat World Championships hit a wake, caught too much air, and violently flipped. A helicopter rushed to the crash, but the boat’s pilot and throttleman were both…
Does Jeffrey Loria lie awake at night, in his Britto-decorated pajamas, trying to think of new ways to be disgusting? Tomorrow night–11/11/11!– the owner of the mediocre baseball collective soon-to-be-formerly known as the Florida Marlins will throw his crowning gala at the new stadium. To commemorate the team’s rebranding as…
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When former mayoral candidate and commissioner Joe Sanchez announced this morning that his Florida Highway Patrol cruiser had been vandalized with human feces — possibly the latest salvo in a war raging between FHP and the Miami police — we were picturing a liberally placed turd or two. Maybe a…
So, you thought news of Herman Cain’s alleged sexual harassment past and his campaign’s subsequent bungling attempt to react to the news would doom the pizza man’s chance of winning the GOP nomination? Yeah, well, not in Florida at least. A new Rasmussen poll taken just yesterday shows that Cain…
