Donald Gartner of Port Richey, Florida, downed a six-pack of beer and a handful of Oxycontin Sunday night and proceeded to get arrested for causing a ruckus at his neighbor’s house. He found himself released from jail a few hours later, but wasn’t done raising hell. Shortly after being released,…
Las Vegas Sands, a casino resort company that counts Las Vegas’s giant Venetian resort as its crown jewel, for years has been trying to butter up the Florida Legislature to allow gambling. The company was none too pleased when arch-rival Genting came into downtown Miami and announced a massive $3 billion…
One very angry, armed and dangerous baby mama remains at large in Miami today, while the father of her child is at Jackson Memorial Hospital recovering from a stab wound. According to police, the man was working at the Shell gas station near NW Seventh Avenue and 54th Street when the woman…
On October 10, 2010, off the coast of Israel, a 40-year-old South African woman working on a Celebrity cruise ship blacked out while having a drink with a male co-worker in his cabin. She awoke hours later to find the man, a Costa Rican, raping her.The sexual assault at sea…
Apparently it’s not only your Kendall abuelita who likes a good Spanish-language soap featuring beautiful rich people, faked deaths, and middle-aged hunks with great hair. We recently received a wonderfully obscure press release from Medley-based Venevision bragging that its novela Eva Luna is battling for the top spot in its…
A few weeks ago, bigwigs at the Florida Miami Marlins announced they were putting the final touches on the team’s new stadium in Little Havana. The coup de grace: a rubber membrane designed to reduce the glare off its bulbous, retractable metal roof. Soon the stadium will be shrink-wrapped in the…
Oh sure we’ve got decent weather and calming seas, but it’s not exactly a surprise that for us living year round in Miami life can be stressful. Let’s not even get started on our ridiculous traffic, horrible parking, and tanked economy. So it shouldn’t be shocking to discover that Miami has ranked on Forbes list of most…
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Yes, there’s a million different polls coming from all different directions, but the latest from War Room Logistics, a Republican aligned firm bases in Gainseville, is worth a look. Unlike most polls this early in the race, the survey polled likely Florida voters and not just registered voters. The poll also…
If Miami does not have its glam and vice, than really what else is there? Yes, yes, we’re actually a complicated, cultured city but don’t tell the rest of America that. Our entire tourism industrial complex is based on the the rest of America thinking we’re a shallow, glamorous, sun drenched…
Oh, you’re still complaining about the Facebook redesign? Just be grateful the site didn’t lead to you being shot by a man you thought was a woman. Jacksonville, Florida resident and Twitter enthusiast Christopher Harris had only recently returned to the cold embrace of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network and thought he had met…
Two separate murder-suicides in Miami-Dade County last night left two husbands and wives dead. The first incident involved 69-year-old Luis Yrigoyen who shot his wife before shooting himself while the couple’s adult children were in their home downstairs watching a football game. The second incident involved 43-year-old Apolinar Piedra, who shot is…
They came. They saw. They arranged to convene at a later date.Ar-Miami-geddon didn’t happen, but more than a hundred “Occupy Miami” protesters did meet on Saturday in Bayfront Park downtown. They agreed to gather again this Saturday to plan a camp-out beginning on October 15.With 700 protesters arrested on Saturday…
Even in death, Carlos Andres Perez managed to ruffle his nemesis Hugo Chavez’s feathers. After the ex-president passed away in Miami last Christmas, his body was caught in a tug-of-war between Chavez loyalists and the Magic City’s anti-regime exiles as two sides of his family battled over whether to bury him…
The Miami Dolphins did that thing again where they play like their scrotums are stapled to their thighs, this time losing 26-16 to the San Diego Chargers. In the process, they lost Chad Henne to a shoulder injury, forcing backup Matt Moore to step in and do exactly what Henne’s…
Cooper, a tiny Chihuahua-whippet mix, seems to have gone from sea to shining sea, but no one knows exactly how. The pup went missing from his Sacramento, California, home back in 2009. Earlier this month he turned up in Brandon, Florida. Unfortunately, his incredible journey did not involve another, more…
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South Florida, where Ponzi scheme convictions are as common as jaywalking tickets. The latest Miami man at the center of a collapsed phony empire is Oscar Hernandez. While relatively small compared to other cases, Hernandez’s $3 million scheme operated in classic Ponzi scheme…
Back in 2007 University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones got popped for allegedly pulling over in his Mercedes Benz and offering an undercover cop $20 for some sex. Jones ended up suiting law blog, Above the Law, for making a few jokes about the thing. Well,…
It wasn’t Michael Jordan in Space Jam (few things, unfortunately, are) but Chris Bosh made his network acting debut Wednesday night on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Bosh was joined by Carmelo Anthony, and the two played former players of a legendary high school coach (played…
Brace yourself for waves of socially responsible hipsters.”Occupy Miami” — a protest against corporate greed modeled after the two-week sit-in currently clogging Wall Street in New York — will take over Bayfront Park tomorrow.But how will our soulless city respond? And will Miami Police bring out the storm troops like…
Big man Alonzo Mourning is looking to downsize, so he’s put his eight-bedroom, eight-bath Coral Gables mansion on the market. The 13,000-square-foot pad was only built in 2004, and the former Miami Heat superstar is asking $14.5 million to move into the waterfront home in the gated Coral Gables Estates…
