Last Friday, Miami International Airport officers inspecting the bags of a 17-year-old British girl headed back to London took a look at a couple dozen boxes of cake mix stuffed amid her clothes. They weren’t full of red velvet batter. The cops found 30 pounds of cocaine inside, and the…
Yesterday it seemed that Rina was poised to reach category three strength winds with an eventual turn near South Florida. Today, Rina has dissipated back to tropical storm status and is now projected come no where near us. Jeez, Rina, what a loser…
Claude Dray, a billionaire French art collector and real estate investor, was found dead in his home in a Paris suburb Tuesday. Investigators believe the murder might have been a professional hit. Dray bought South Beach’s historic National Hotel in 2007 and also was involved in other real estate investments…
So far the Republican primary to decide who gets to take on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012 has been a big, wet, cold heap of “ain’t nobody care.” Neither George LeMieux nor Adam Hasner have caught on with GOP voters, and pretty much every poll has shown that most…
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Lies Marc Sarnoff told me
Florida has apparently stopped gorging itself on pizza man Herman Cain, and ol’ reliably boring Mitt Romney has taken a giant lead in the latest poll conducted by Time and CNN. Romney leads the pack with 30 percent, while Cain is now a distant second with 12 percent. Compare that…
Terry Jones, the press hungry pastor of a tiny Gainesville church that damn near caused an international incident by promising to host “Burn a Koran” day, has decided he’s going to run for president. Because that’s exactly what we need: more wackos people running for president! In his press release…
There’s nothing quite like the impending invasion of Arkansas’s finest low-rent retailer to inspire fiery emotions in an up-and-coming neighborhood. (How many other chains have sparked angry documentaries and legions of dissenting groups?)Ever since Riptide broke the news yesterday that Sam Walton’s brainchild is planning a huge new outpost in…
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A strange string of robberies stared occurring earlier this month in two North Miami-Dade cities. On October 5, a female mail carrier was beaten and robbed in Miami Gardens. A similar incident occurred involving another female mail carrier in North Miami on the 14th, and on the 17th yet another…
Slowly moving but quickly strengthening Hurricane Rina is expected to become a Category 3 storm sometime within the next 24 hours as it trudges toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. However, the five-day projections have the storm taking a hard right turn later this week, and Miami is now within its possible…
An intense scene broke out last night at Northwest 62nd Street and 19th Avenue near Liberty City as a SWAT team was called in to negotiate with ten armed suspects who had barricaded themselves in a house. Two young children were also involved in the incident…
Sometimes we wonder how far this Suck for Luck business will go. Join us in our imagination: It’s January 1, and the Jets are visiting Sun Life for the last game of the year. The Fins are 0-16. There’s less than a minute left on the clock, and the Indianapolis…
PETA, everyone’s favorite group of totally rational animal activists, has launched a new legal attack against SeaWorld this morning, accusing parks in Orlando and California of mistreating five killer whales. Which, actually, OK! There are lots of reasonable arguments against keeping orcas in captivity.PETA’s argument, however, is that the killer…
And they say Miami Heat fans are apathetic. Pshaw! OK, so they might not go to games, even if it’s pretty easy to get good tickets for $30 with a free pizza and Coke. But when some high-falutin’ author calls them “cretins,” they will email said author to wish that…
Florida has a knack of bringing out the best in people.Take the Sikkenga family from Gillete, Wyoming. In all-American fashion, 31-year-old Nathan Sikkenga had driven his wife and 9-year-old son cross-country to see Disney World.But the ‘rents were on vacation too. And when they got sloshed, they handed the minivan…
Florida Family Association, one of these “morality” groups that’s pretty much a soap box for some guy named David Canton, has decided to call for a boycott of Target because *gasp* they don’t think gay teens should kill themselves. See, Target is one of the main advertisers on TeenNick show…
If an Ohio-based developer has its way, newly flourishing midtown Miami’s newest tenant will be a 160,000-square-foot Walmart. The behemoth discount center would cover the five-acre spot just south of Petsmart on North Miami Avenue and would become the first Walmart inside Miami’s city limits.But that’s assuming Miami’s political establishment…
