The National Organization for Marriage, the sometimes fumbling and controversial anti-gay marriage group, is targeting Miami-area Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in its latest publicity stunt. Last week, Ros-Lehtinen became the first and so far only Republican to sponsor a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which furthered…
Former Florida Gov. Claude Kirk has died at the age of 85. Taking office in 1967, Kirk was Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and the first Republican governor elected in a Southern state in modern times. Kirk is remembered for his outsize personality and flair for controversy. A strong…
Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, the delicious little South Beach taco restaurant that could, won’t be a local secret much longer. The restaurant has gone chain. It’s rapidly expanding in Florida, and Ruby Tuesday has plans to open another 200 Lime outlets in the eastern United States. Just don’t expect it…
More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on a beach that’s part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The 55 pounds of yayo was found not far from a launching pad used to send Delta II rockets high into the atmosphere. The discovery ensures that, well, someone…
Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn’t know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted…
When Simon Cowell’s new show, The X Factor, aired last week, Charlese Uribe already knew what would happen. Earlier this summer, she and her then-15-year-old daughter Melody Haughn had driven to Miami from their home in Pembroke Pines only to get cut after a week of brutal tryouts.But when Uribe tuned in…
Anthony Mangione, the chief of the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s South Florida department, was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Mangione had been suspended in April after federal investigators found images of child porn on his computer in his Broward County home. A summer-long investigation led…
With Genting Group ready to plop down billions on a planned new high end casino in downtown Miami after a law-changing stop in Tallahassee, few prominent politicians are opposing it, as much as they are making sure their interests get that tax money. Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado wants to make…
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Power 96 morning host and Miami bass legend DJ Laz finds himself connected to a bizarre murder-suicide that occurred in Miramar this past weekend.Marcus Trotman, 25, shot his wife, 30-year-old Danielle Lorenzo, and his mother-in-law, Linda Scudera, before turning the gun on himself. All three died. According to Local 10’s sources,…
Are the Marlins about to go on a free agent spending spree that would make the Heat blush? Doc Gooden, the slightly disgraced former pitching star who appeared on the fifth season of Celebrity Rehab, reports (apparently exclusively) on his Twitter that Albert Pujols, one of the best players in the…
In a major development, Cuba went to the United Nations yesterday and announced it wanted it to normalize relations with the United States. However, Michele Bachmann won’t have it. Not because of anything like “prove facts” or a “rationale and informed understanding of the issue,” but because she read somewhere…
Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh haven’t played together since the last game of the NBA Finals, and with the lockout in full effect we weren’t sure when it would happen again. That’s about to change. The trio is expected to announce plan for a charity All-Star game at FIU on…
The good citizens of Ocala have been mighty concerned lately about the man in the pointy-headed white hood waving at cars from a downtown street corner. “Is the KKK back in Florida?” they naturally wondered.But no. Ocala’s most questionable street-corner display is simply an anthropomorphic ice-cream cone gone horribly, horribly wrong…
The private information, including social security numbers, birth dates, and GPAs, of thousands of Florida International Students has been compromised after someone typed a smiley face emoticon into the school’s database. Students are feeling :(, :O, and >:|…
Conventional wisdom says that a team brings in a salty old timer coach to right the shaky ship, teach the young whippersnappers a thing or two, and claw its way back to respectability.But the Marlins have actually gotten worse since 80-year-old skipper Jack McKeon took over this summer, statistics show…
Jimbo’s — the venerable Virginia Key hobo den, petting zoo, and bocce pit — was recently named one of Esquire’s best bars in America. It looks like a Mad Max gang hangout. In a figurative sense, the smoked fish sold there is like an enema. Some people swear by it…
Judging by the comments around baseball, not many players are going to weep openly tomorrow when the Marlins play their last game ever at Sun Life Stadium. “There were a lot of rain delays, and no fans,” Josh Willingham recalls. “You’re talking about the worst conditions,” ex-fan fave Cody Ross…
Well, it appears the timing of Jack McKeon’s retirement announcement wasn’t so random. An official announcement that the Florida Miami Marlins have hired Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén as their new skipper seems imminent. The Sox have released Guillén from his contract, and he’s reportedly ready to accept the…
We’re actually surprised that 80-year-old Marlins manager Jack McKeon made it to the end of the season. After dusting him off in the middle of the year, the Marlins have now been informed, to the surprise of no one, that McKeon will go back into retirement as soon as this…
The attention has shifted somewhat back to the Miami Hurricanes losses on the field, but NCAA sanctions are still looming for the school’s massive off-field failure to keep its players away from douche king sports booster Nevin Shapiro. It took a surprisingly long time, but it seems that one of…
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