Two masked men drove up to Miami’s West Little River Park yesterday around 6 p.m. and began firing. Four children, one as young as 3 years old, were hit by stray bullets. None of the injuries was life-threatening. …
“Vice President Marco Rubio.”Sound a little strange? 2012 Republican presidential hopeful (and early Florida frontrunner) Mitt Romney said he’s thinking about making it happen, according to conservative Virginia blog Bearing Drift…
After a New Times story exposed a local diploma mill that was peddling high school degrees for $399, Broward College has banned “graduates” from InterAmerican Christian Academy. But Miami Dade College, the most prominent public academy in the state, won’t do the same…
Damn you Big Government. Always getting in the way of stuff. Like that one time President Barack O’Socialist tried to keep us from getting sick and dying without health care. Whatevs.Well, ol’ Biggie is up to it again, this time by preventing us Floridians from seeking righteous vengeance against the…
The fearless left fielder for our Florida Marlins has revealed his kryptonite: It’s green, armored, and scares him more than a fastball low and inside. It’s a bug.There really aren’t many words necessary here; the video makes the joke just fine. Mantis on railing, LoMo taunt mantis, mantis make LoMo…
A small house party turned deadly Saturday night for 19-year-old Pasco County resident Samuel Smith, an aspiring mixed martial artist who witnesses say was beaten to death by a red-haired partygoer after Smith called him a “ginger” and told him he had “weak knees,” according to the St. Petersburg Times…
Prosecutors have just released a photo of police officer Derick Kuilan partying it up shortly before he allegedly hopped on his ATV and drunkenly ran over two people on Miami Beach.Kuilan turned himself in earlier today. He has been charged with two counts of DUI with serious bodily injuries and…
Bro comedies are big business in Hollywood, and the story of a Miami Beach stoner who suddenly becomes a major arms dealer seems right up the bro-cinema alley. No surprise then that Todd Phillips, the director of The Hangover and Old School, has optioned the rights to a Rolling Stone article…
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The Miami Dolphins wasted no post-lockout time addressing their plagued quarterback situation. They’ve already signed Pat Devlin, a QB out of the FCS-division University of Delaware. Hopefully the undrafted rookie free agent won’t be the only move the ‘Fins make at QB, but the team believed in him enough to…
Derick Kuilan has already faced professional consequences from the night the Miami Beach police officer took a woman he met at the Clevelander on a drunk ATV joyride down the beach before hitting a couple. He was fired. Now Kuilan faces criminal charges, and the former police officer turned himself in…
Florida has constitutionally banned its gay wedding cake and is trying to eat it, too.Gay couples in New York began exercising their right to marry this weekend. New York is the largest state so far to legalize gay marriage (permanently, at least), and Florida tourism boards are trying to make…
Yesterday we brought you some of the most hauntingly beautiful images on the web — beautiful women like Katy Perry and Emma Watson sporting the piercing baby blues of our esteemed governor, Rick Scott.Well we didn’t want to leave out you, our lovely readers, so our expert graphics expert has…
The Raleigh Hotel already has an air of unfussy chic that’s unique in South Beach, but in this town everyone needs an occasional nip and tuck to stay looking good. Signaling yet another financial move to indicate tourism is back in business after a recession-blamed bump, the hotel has secured…
While Miami Beach’s new DecoBike bicycle sharing program seems to be a hit with riders, the private company that runs the program says it’s already facing financial concerns. DecoBike says its failed to raise enough money in advertising and now wants to place mini-billboards on its bike stands. That’s a…
Divers, prepare your tickle stick. Lobster mini-season is nigh. Yes, the annual two-day recreational season that inevitably seems to involve a few deaths every year kicks off tonight at midnight…
Despite the fact Rick Scott used to owns shares in a social media company that partnered with Playboy, his prison chief was so distraught by the site of a Playboy centerfold hanging in a jail that he’s now banned all pornography from state prisons…
Whatever happened to the stoic Eastern European mobster? You know, the Viggo Mortensen type who communicates via grunts, cryptic tattoos, and the bludgeoning end of a fire extinguisher? Meet 22-year-old Sunny Isles Beach luminary Jason Eibinder, arrested in January for his role in a massive Romania-based Internet fraud scheme. Last…
When Adewale Ogunleye walked into his condo in the South Beach Mondrian a few weeks ago, he got a nasty shock — a slammed door and a “large male” hiding in the shower. When he called out, the guy said he was “Roberto, head of housekeeping.” Even worse, Ogunleye says,…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that Amy Winehouse died the debt ceiling is still a thing porn star Raul Armenteros, known as Ramon in his Bang Bus videos, was arrested for leaving 21 animals — eight roosters, four guinea hens, four pigeons, four goats, and a…
Florida Republicans don’t seem to know what to make of the rag tag bunch seeking the Republican presidential nomination, so much so that a recent poll shows that the favorite nominee in the state is a guy that’s not even running. Yep, apparently Florida GOPers can’t get enough of various…
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