So in a November 2008 email conversation with Newsweek scribe Allison Samuels, Shaquille O’Neal casually mentioned that former teammate Dwyane Wade was romantically involved with actress Lauren London. Well, actually he said: “Loren is d wade’s girl” When Samuels protested that Wade– who was married at the time– was involved…
Meera Khan, a former employee of the state Department of Children and Families in Miami, was a true welfare queen. She worked for DCF for nine years and during that time faked applications to collect food stamps for herself, as well as ripped off her needy clients by pocketing fraudulent…
Yesterday we learned that after Gov. Rick Scott spearheaded a law requiring all welfare recipients in the state to undergo drug testing, only 2 percent of people who have taken the test since the law went into effect July 1 have failed. That’s compared to about 8.16 percent of the general…
You think your significant other is needy? At least he or she is not staging kidnappings in order to get your attention.Twenty-one-year-old Rashell Leeann Barfield was arrested yesterday after leading her boyfriend, family, and police on a search for a white van in which she was supposedly being held captive…
Scientific American just dropped its “Better, Smarter Cities” issue, which is chock full of Top 10 lists. Miami makes a few appearances but tops only one: “Highest Sickness Risk.” Though, we also make appearances on lists for best Internet access, walk-ability, and most fast-food restaurants…
Today’s batch of Shaquille O’Neal emails makes yesterday’s entry — in which the giant basketball superstar man-child played pick-a-mistress with Newsweek scribe Allison Samuels — look downright scholarly. This morning, we’re embracing our inner TMZ. According to emails and texts sealed in court, but which we were able to obtain…
Dude, for a city that has weathered so much in the past decade — from 9/11 to blackouts, serial killers to the Knicks (the Knicks, for God’s sake!) — New York is acting wimpier these days than LeBron James atop a diving platform.First, there was that itsy, bitsy earthquake Tuesday, equivalent…
That cocaine you’re planning to enjoy this weekend — because really, how else can you appreciate those amazing beats blasting on Lincoln Road — might contain more than coca. Actually, a new study says if you’re snorting it in Miami, it’s probably chock full of a compound that will eat the…
Miami street signs that promise to change your life
Miami Heat minority owner Raanan Katz sues an anonymous blogger
Miami-Dade teacher Shawn Loftis fired over gay porn career
Miami-Dade youth boot camp faces closure
Hey, remember how we’re giving the Marlins a free baseball stadium because of the fiery, raging passion for baseball down here in Miami-Dade? Honestly, when you have the kind of fan base that bleeds teal-and-blue like the 305, nothing make more sense than investing hundreds of millions in … wait,…
Two years ago Gustavo Villoldo, an anti-Castro agent who buried Che Guevara’s body, was awarded a $1 billion judgment against the Cuban Government after he claimed that Fidel Castro’s rise to power lead to his father’s suicide. Now, another Miami judge has ruled that the Cuban government must pay Villoldo…
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So the fine folks at Gawker are busy this week counting down America’s 50 worst states. We were bracing ourselves to find Florida either near or at the very top of the list. After all, Gawker does take delight in chronicling our weird news. Yet today we find that the…
A controversial new law requiring all people in Florida to undergo a drug test before receiving welfare benefits from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program was championed heavily by Gov. Rick Scott. He claimed the new law would save Florida money, but new statistics show that only 2 percent…
President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory was fueled in no small part by Hispanic voters. He pulled off a major 36-point victory over John McCain in the Latino vote, and new poll numbers suggest he’s poised to pull off a major Latino landslide against his top Republican challengers. Assuming, of course,…
In 1995, on the heels of the Hurricanes’ Pell Grant scandal, Sports Illustrated published one of its most minimalist but powerful covers: a plain green background featuring the headline “Why the University of Miami should drop football.”To many Canes fans — most of whom believed up until last week that…
If you’re of the thought that LeBron James second- guessed himself a bit too much during the NBA Finals and shied away from making big moves in the moments that mattered, this video of him sheepishly taking minutes to jump off a diving platform in front of a large crowd…
Last night was a big night in Marco Rubio’s career. Not only did he make his first major speech outside of Florida and D.C., but he also saved a collapsing Nancy Reagan. Rubio was walking down the aisle before his speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California with…
In an ongoing, bizarre local lawsuit, Shaquille O’Neal is accused of trying to orchestrate a frame job using child porn and the help of Miami Beach Police. Recently a judge temporarily barred the admission of a cache of the superstar’s emails into the public record. We’ve gotten our grubby hands on…
