Fresh after being hit by and spending most of the rest of the day tweeting about a minor earthquake, the northeastern portion of our fine country might have to deal with a serious natural disaster. Hurricane Irene has shifted away from Florida and now has North Carolina and the northern coast in…
Michelle Spence-Jones, the former city commissioner acquitted in March of bribery, now seems free to return to office after prosecutors dropped the final grand theft charge this afternoon.It’s a remarkable turn-around for Spence-Jones, who was arrested in November 2009 just days after her re-election to District 5. It’s also a…
Marking his first major speech outside of D.C. or Florida, Marco Rubio will speak tonight in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Of course, some spectators can’t help but make comparisons between Reagan and Rubio (high office aspirations and all), but one group says Cuban-American senator is much farther…
Douglas Betancourt sat quietly in a back row straight through a service in a Little Havana church yesterday evening. After the mass, Pastor Hector Silva and his worshipers gathered in the back to eat a late meal together. Betancourt, a 25-year-old transient, approached the group, whipped out a knife and…
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Like most people in Miami, you have a checking account that is still feeling stressed. This means whether you’re buying a few too many drinks at an overpriced bar before your next paycheck or just trying to put food on the table, you’re probably overdrafting once in a while. At…
The Miami Dolphins signed ex-Chiefs running back Larry Johnson as they continue to bolster and tinker with their running back corps, which was probably the only spot on the roster that didn’t entirely suck raccoon balls last year. Johnson’s best and only good seasons were 2005 and 2006, when he…
Some former University of Miami athletes and recruits implicated by superscum Nevin Shapiro have somehow stayed on the rosters at their new schools. Yet the eligibility of players currently on the Miami team is still up in the air. Why? It’s likely because the NCAA has cut deals with the players to keep their…
Early this month, Miami-based Dilligaf clothing line filed suit against Jersey Shore star Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino, claiming he refused to promote a line the two parties had planned. Now, Sorrentino is countersuing and asserts that Dilligaf (an acronymf or “Do I look like I give a fuck?”) didn’t even…
Every year, the TV people with the perfect hair stand in front of big, swirling storm maps and tell us, in so many words, Holy fucking shit the big one is here. It’s how we prepare — or not — for an impending storm that defines us as South Floridians…
Sharks are the Adolf Hitlers of the ocean, not because they are deranged, but because discussion about them causes people to shout and threaten one another with bodily harm.Or impale themselves on giant fish hooks.That’s what one LUSH cosmetics employee will do tomorrow in San Francisco. The grisly stunt is…
Alberto De Jesus Coteron Oliva, 19, tried to pull his best The Fast and the Furious moves over the weekend. Now he sits in jail for killing three teenage passengers in his car Sunday night and fleeing after the accident…
CNN doesn’t have a problem with Shawn Loftis’s big, gay porn career. Should Miami-Dade County Public Schools? Using the nom de porn Collin O’Neal, he won awards for virtuoso performances in hard-core films such as Mo’ Bubble Butt, Humping Iron, and Desperate Husbands. In 2005, Miami Beach resident Loftis started…
Good news: South Florida. NOAA keeps moving the “cone of possibility” away from the area (though we aren’t safe yet). Bad news: Irene keeps gaining strength.Last night, the storm strengthened to 100 MPH winds, making it a Category 2 ‘cane. Irene is currently north of the Dominican Republic, with the…
Last August, Gibson Belizaire died under a hail of bullets in a grimy corner behind a Little Haiti body shop. Five cops — including two with troubling records of violence — blasted more than 130 rounds at the slight 21-year-old, killing him instantly after he’d run from a roadblock and…
As the University of Miami weathered a category five storm of controversy last week spurred by Nevin Shapiro’s investigations, the university’s president Donna Shalala remained relatively quiet, only releasing a terse statement. This afternoon she released a nearly six minute video on YouTube commenting on the scandal, and says that 15 current University of…
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Late last month, an Orlando-area judge ruled a major Florida drug law that’s been on the books since 2002 unconstitutional. Just last week, a Miami judge cited that ruling and overturned the conviction of 39 defendants. The rulings will have to work their way through the courts, but if a…
While the University of Miami athletics department is surely full of anxiety this week, you also have to feel for the fine folks down the street at AllCanes, the store that specializes in nothing but Hurricanes merchandise. The Shapiro scandal could affect the shop’s bottom line, but at the moment, the place…
Harvard scientist Arkhat Abzhanov has done what dozens of drunk Miamians living near the Everglades have probably attempted in a cruder fashion at one point or another: successfully mixed the DNA of a chicken and an alligator. Unlike hypothetical local attempts, however, Abzhanov’s method did not involve getting a gator…
Vladimir Louissant, 25; Victoria Barkley, 26; Byron Kyler, 23; and Reginald Mitchell, 26, have been swiftly arrested after the murder of a Brinks armored truck guard yesterday afternoon outside the Calder Casino in Miami Gardens. The four suspects had fled the scene but were captured by the FBI’s South Florida…
Charles Robinson got a few sources beyond Nevin Shapiro to go on the record for his Hurricanes humdinger, and now the only former Cane who spoke on the record denies he was even interviewed. Robinson stands behind his story. He says he even has the recordings to prove it…
