After six seasons with the Miami Dolphins, Channing Crowder has announced his retirement from football after being cut from the team last month. Yet Crowder is only 27 and has his entire life in front of him. It’s not too late for our favorite Fins loudmouth to find a new…
Yesterday the beleaguered presidential campaign of Jon Huntsman sent a mysterious notice to the press about a “major announcement” to be unveiled at Scotty’s Landing in Coconut Grove. Well, that announcement is happening as we type this post. The big hoopla was all about Jeb Bush Jr. joining the campaign. Yes,…
Maybe the Miami Dolphins need to rethink their policy of letting fans attend open practices during training camp. First a bunch of fans showed up and began chanting, “We want Orton,” which really, really hurt Chad Henne’s feelings. Now footage from the training camp has leaked online. Which means opponents…
The morning after the police union overwhelmingly voted to back a recall of Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, union lawyers are drafting a lawsuit to force the city to figure out how to make it happen. The problem, according to union chief Armando Aguilar, is that the city charter specifies officials…
This week’s metro tells the incredible story of Spanish brothers Artemio and Álvaro López Tardón. According to prosecutors, the two ran a tri-continental drug shipping and money-laundering empire worth nearly $100 million per year.Yet with suspected ringleader Álvaro expected to plead not guilty this week, plenty of questions remain about…
Guess we woke up this morning in the mood to piss off some rich people. The Indian Creek Country Club is Miami-Dade County’s most exclusive, and controversial, private society. Even the millionaires and billionaires of Indian Creek Village, the island just west of Surfside where the club is located, are…
At 87 years old, Richard Smith will become the oldest graduate in Florida International University’s history. This Saturday, he’ll receive his doctorate in history, which makes sense, considering that he has actually lived it. The veteran served in World War II as part of the Air Corps and received a…
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s campaign has promised that the struggling presidential candidate will make a major announcement tomorrow at, of all place, Scotty’s Landing in Coconut Grove. Our first instinct was that he’d be announcing his exit from the race, but that seems unlikely. Word is now that he’ll…
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For 13 years, Hialeah Gardens Police Officer Jorge Romero has been charged with patrolling his city for crime. This morning he found himself charged with an actual crime. FBI agents arrested him for alleged participation in a gang of thieves that terrorized cargo trucks and made off with valuable merchandise…
Miami is such a messed up area there’s probably more than enough opportunities to volunteer than your average place. Yet, the Miami metro area ranks dead last for volunteering in the entire nation. Florida as a whole doesn’t do much better, ranking 49 out of the 50 states and District…
Jacqui Colyer, the Miami regional director for the Department of Children and Families, has resigned just a little over two years since taking the job. Her department and handling of the job came under fire after the body of 10-year-old Nubia Barahona was found stuffed in a bag, covered in…
OK, I’ll be honest. It was hard logging onto my computer last week and seeing Mayor Tomás Regalado’s face pop up with an article listing ten reasons why he should be recalled. Every time his kindly mug cycled on the homepage rotator, I thought about my uncles and older cousins, the…
The NBA lockout gives players a chance to pursue some of their passions. LeBron James is brushing up on his NFL commentator skills. Dwyane Wade is designing watches. Chris Bosh is busy flying tattoo artists to far-away islands to add to the ever-growing montage of nightmarish images he calls a…
Well, you can’t say Salvatore Louise Pascucci isn’t a pervert without manners. The 26-year-old Port Charlotte man developed a crush on his 36-year-old neighbor and decided the best thing to do was to break into her home late at night and put his hand on her thigh and feet while…
One night in mid-July, FBI agents swarmed three buildings around town simultaneously. It was one of the most incredible drug busts in Miami history — and hardly anyone noticed. At the time, we wrote about how a sculpted, tattooed Spaniard named Álvaro López Tardón and several associates stood accused of…
An early-morning beachgoer called Miami Beach Police shortly before 7 a.m. today to report a disturbing find: a body lying near the sea around 68th Street.The dead man had a gunshot wound to the head, Det. Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach spokesman, tells Riptide. “Early indications are that it’s self-inflicted,”…
Have you ever listened to Tim McGraw… in zero gravity? The Tea Party — those jolly maniacs who use this communist, liberal, Rosie O’Donnell-edited rag to line their iguana solariums — has already conquered ‘Merica. Evidence: You recognize the name Todd Palin. Next stop: the universe. South Florida Tea Party…
A few days before Christmas 2008, Abraham Gil had just finished handing out routes to Conchita Transit’s fleet of jitney drivers when his brother Rene bumped into him in a hallway. Rene, who owns 40 percent of Hialeah’s dominant jitney firm, wasn’t happy with the assignment Abraham had just given…
A Dutch airline had already booked up an entire flight to Miami using Twitter, so it was only a matter of time until a cruise ship company tries the same. This November, Norwegian Cruise Lines will set sail with what its claiming is the world’s first Twitter-themed cruise. Personally, a…
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This past June, Ricky Williams said he wanted to finish his career by winning a Super Bowl with the Dolphins. Yet the team’s moves this off-season showed it had little interest in keeping Williams (or winning a Super Bowl, judging by the handling of the QB situation), and the onetime…
