Bears, we will let you get away with a lot. You can paw through our trash. You can sneak into our yards. But when you come into our houses and steal our delicious, frosted, high fat birthday cakes you’ve simply crossed a line, and it means only one thing: death. …
Until last year, Jamie Alberto Marin-Zamora was one of the last leaders standing in Colombia’s once-feared Norte del Valle Cartel. Nicknamed “Belo Marin,” he ran a ring that distributed thousands of kilos of coke every year.This morning, Belo Marin is surrounded by guards in Miami’s Wilkie D. Ferguson Federal Courthouse, preparing…
Hialeah police shot two armed robbery suspects last night after the pair tried to ram officers with their Cadillac SUV. A police officer is also in the hospital after being hit by the car. The incident occurred near West 29th Street and 12th Avenue around 9:30 p.m…
Royal Caribbean doesn’t care about employees raped at sea, a lawyer says
Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman gives preferential treatment to friends
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Rick Perry: Awful politician, genius campaigner
Rick Scott’s pledge that he’d create 700,000 new jobs for Floridians in addition to expected job growth was perhaps one of the least controversial themes of his election campaign. Yeah, well, sorry — he’s flip-flopped on that. He’s no longer promising 700,000 jobs in addition to the jobs the state…
Despite the weekly disaster show on the field, the Miami Dolphins are at their highest level of popularity in years. That’s according to a Harris Interactive poll that ranks the 32 NFL teams from America’s most favorite to least. The Dolphins are America’s 13th favorite team. Unlucky number as it might…
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I never really knew that she could serve on presidential advisory boards like this. She makes Obama wants to speak Spanish. Como se llama? Bonita! Mi Casa Blanca es tu Casa Blanca!In a hip-shaking move surely aimed to help his Hispanic outreach efforts, Barack Obama has appointed international pop star Shakira to his…
With Chad Henne probably out because of his injury, someone else will become the Dolphins’ 16th starting quarterback in the 13 years since Dan Marino’s retirement. The job will most likely go Matt Moore, barring a miraculous Henne recovery, but the Fins are still on the hunt for other backups. ESPN…
Despite being a common practice in developed countries for nearly 70 years and dubbed “one of the greatest public health achievements of the century” by the CDC, water fluoridation has joined the likes of Charlie Crist and Barack Obama as the latest enemy of the Tea Party in Florida. Tea Party…
Burn Notice doesn’t tell the half of the absurd real-life characters who call Miami home. Take Sarkis Soghanalian, our very own “Merchant of Death,” who sold Saddam Hussein his arsenal, profiteered from dozens of bloody wars, and whenever things went sour, traded his freedom for juicy CIA intel on crime…
”Welcome to RazzleDazzle Barbershop,” the video says before cutting to a photo of a busty young woman in a skimpy Moulin Rouge-style outfit. “Haircuts with a view. Only $20.”As blogger Al Crespo pointed out last week, the video — found on the City of Miami’s homepage — is straight-up creepy…
In June, New Times published a feature exposing rampant fraud and a near-complete absence of oversight in the $150-million-a-year taxpayer-funded McKay scholarship program for disabled children to attend private schools. One of our readers, it turns out, was Miami-Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho. And now South Florida’s top education honcho…
With the eventual aim of shortening screening lines and easing some security procedures, the TSA unveiled a new program today at four airports across the country, including Miami International, that allows passengers to go through security checkpoints without taking off their shoes and belts and removing certain items from baggage. However, not everyone…
After several years of decline, the Anti-Defamation League reports anti-Semitism is back on the rise in Florida. The group’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents report shows that more than 10 percent of anti-Semitic incidents in the nation in 2010 occurred in Florida and that the number of incidents rose in Florida by…
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As if the Dolphins needed more problems, it appears Chad Henne’s shoulder injury is pretty serious. Now multiple reports are claiming the Fins are downright desperate to bring in some new QB blood and have reached out to both David Garrard and Jake Delhomme…
College football players getting into fights on the field? It happens. College football players getting into fights in their downtime? Yeah, it happens too. College football players attacking former players of the opposing team immediately after a game? That has allegedly happened too, now. Reggie Myles, a former defensive back…
Manuel Galan and Cirildo Soliz — both young, gay and living in rural Collier County — were walking in the center of Immokalee recently when a car pulled up and someone yelled, “Fucking fags!” Five or six young men jumped out and beat Galan and Soliz bloody while yelling homophobic…
