Too scared to enter a City of Miami or Miami-Dade park or government building because you can’t protect yourself by carrying a licensed concealed weapon? Well, you probably don’t exist. But if you do, fear not — beginning November 17, you’ll be able to arm yourself in any park and…
Maybe it’s because as secretary of state, she’s not directly involved in DC’s tense fight over economic policy. Maybe it’s because people have a nostalgia for her husband’s terms as president where our biggest national issue was a blowjob. Maybe Hillary Clinton is just a badass. Whatever the case, the…
According to some cops right here in South Florida, the simple act of pointing a camera at a police officer on the job is a crime. Here’s the absurd theory: In Florida, it’s illegal to record someone without consent; therefore, filming a cop without his permission is a crime.Never mind…
Despite being quoted by CBSSports.com yesterday saying that the University of Miami wants to renegotiate Al Golden’s contract, and implying that the coach wouldn’t be above abandoning ship if the team was hit by crippling NCAA sanctions, Golden’s agent Adam Senior now says that Golden will honor his contract. Senior…
South Florida is the adopted home of all types of international men and women of mystery: from Latin American strongmen to drug runners, movie stars to criminals on the lam. It’s where people go to disappear until the charges are dropped or the checks have cleared. Then bam! they reemerge like…
Next time someone argues that justice is the end result after a trip through American courts, here’s the only rebuttal you need: “Liberty City Seven.” The informants were money-extorting, wife-beating lowlifes. Bush-era, terrorism-obsessed cronies hyped it. And after two straight juries deadlocked on whether seven poor dudes in Liberty City…
Will Matti Herrera Bower be able to slide past joke candidate turned semiserious competitor Steve Berke to regain her job as Miami Beach Mayor? Will Raul Martinez return once again to the seat of Hialeah Mayor he held for decades? Will there be any sort of serious shake up on…
Today, The New York Times tallied up the list of U.S. Representatives who have missed the most votes so far this year. A local name popped up at 6th on the list: Frederica Wilson. The first term congresswoman from District 17 hasn’t cast a vote since October 3rd. …
Hey, Miami, you’re welcome. Thanks to the nationwide Occupy movement — including the 305’s very own budding revolt at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center — Bank of America just announced it’s no longer planning to rip off debit card users by charging them five bucks a month. One for Occupy,…
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Three young men have been arrested after shooting a group of children dressed up in Halloween costumes while trick-or-treating in North Miami. Marc Dolcine, 18, Rodson Travine, 19, and Darrel Labranche, 21, are now facing charges of aggravated battery…
Is Miami Hurricanes head coach Al Golden hoping to get out of his contract with the University of Miami if the NCAA hands down crippling sanctions related to the Nevin Shapiro scandal? His agent Brett Senior seems to hint so in an interview with CBSSports.com, and suggests that Golden may…
The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling reports it has seen a large uptick in calls to its help line in the past year, indicating that gambling addiction may be on the rise in the Sunshine State. The report comes after Governor Rick Scott slashed the program’s budget, and as state…
John Paul Garrido, a 26-year-old inmate, is on the loose in Miami after slipping out of police custody earlier today. Miami-Dade police officers are conducting a mass search for the man near the 1400 block of Northwest North River Drive — and have enlisted the help of Photoshop in their…
A 21-year-old woman had to pull off I-95 Sunday morning around 6:30 because her car was having trouble. She stopped in the area of NW 103rd Street near NW Sixth Avenue, where a young man approached her, hit her in the back of the head, and sexually assaulted her…
Micky Arison may have made the most expensive tweet in history. NBA commissioner David Stern will fine the Heat owner $500,000 for a remark he made on Twitter about the lockout, according to Yahoo! Sports. That would be the single largest fine ever levied on an individual in NBA history…
The Occupy movement started with mass outrage against Wall Street, and while Miami may not be home to the slimy realm of Gordon Gekko, protesters outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center are turning their economic outrage onto the local equivalent: the downtown Bank of America headquarters.Around 10 a.m. this…
Hey, it’s your favorite morning of the year! The one where you stumble out of bed to realize you spent the night next to a stranger dressed like Muammar Gaddafi (too soon?), scrape the caked zombie makeup off your face and stumble to work through a grade-five hangover. But then…
Last December, 18-year-old Angel Lazo stopped his Honda Civic in the right lane of a remote stretch of U.S. 27 so notorious for drag racing that its grassy medians are peppered with homemade monuments to crash victims. Lazo’s friend, 18-year-old Raymon Garcia, stopped his Integra right behind Lazo.Moments later, a…
What with all of his insane lawsuits against the Clintons, Facebook, Rachel Maddow, President Obama, and his own mother, conservative Florida activist and lawyer Larry Klayman is pretty damn busy. Too busy to defend his real clients, apparently. The Florida Bar has issued a public reprimand of Klayman for taking…
How much of a badass is Pat Riley? Enough of a badass to go toe-to-toe and face-to-face with Shaq. Sure, Riley’s not exactly diminutive at 6’4″, but Shaq is nine inches taller and 27 years younger than him.Shaq recounts the near-fight that he had with Riley one day that pretty…
If you happen to see Dwyane Wade’s bare feet, don’t make the same mistake LeBron James made and assume D-Wade has some sort of nasty toenail infection. He just likes to paint his toenails black.MV3 discusses his preference for noir foot digits and his other fashion habits in the latest…
