We told you we’d get to the bottom of this. Behold the saga of The Abuelita, The Drainage Ditch, and the Internet. Whenever the elderly dama looks out her window or takes a step outside, she sees it, taunting her, impeding her path, attracting insects, basically just being a giant…
The NBA lockout is making people do strange things: Heat players are beating on little kids at basketball camps, Chris Bosh went and got himself MARRIED, and Dwyane Wade is making YouTube videos about his Lasik procedure.Yes, the 2006 NBA Finals MVP and 2010 NBA All-Star Game MVP is now…
As long as parents have been putting a stop to house parties, teenagers have been finding ways to throw them anyway. But if police are right about Tyler Hadley, never before has a thwarted kegger led to this kind of horrific solution.Port St. Lucie cops this morning say the 17-year-old brutally…
Despite a rocky beginning with those weird Jerry Seinfeld commercials, locally based agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky has continued to handle advertising for tech giant Microsoft. You might remember last year’s ads peddling Microsoft’s Windows 7 line of phones by highlighting Americans’ addiction to their smartphones. Particularly, you might remember one in…
Despite the fact that he may have gotten legally married to Adrienne Williams shortly before the playoffs, Chris Bosh made it official this weekend with a lavish ceremony at the Fontainebleau on Miami Beach. (Yes, the same place where the Mavs celebrated their finals win.) Unlike his bachelor party, both…
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In 1997, the Florida Legislature passed a law that made it a felony for a person with any STD, including HIV, to have sexual intercourse without informing their partner of their status beforehand. Problem is the only thing legally considered “sexual intercourse” in the State of Florida is your standard…
The hunt for a Mercedes-Benz that was carjacked Sunday ended today when the car crashed through a wall after a police chase. The story began yesterday when a man, traveling with his 2-year-old son, was carjacked at gunpoint and ended with a police officer shooting one of the suspects in…
hether you love or hate this city, you might be around a few more years than average to either enjoy it or endure it. If you’re a lady at least. The Daily Beast ranked America’s top 20 cities with the greatest life expectancy, and Miami made the cut. But the news isn’t…
In 2009, Miami-Dade Police arrested Randy Jerome Pozdol after they found video of him sexually assaulting a woman and two children who all appeared to have been drugged and unconscious. However, as the investigation continued, police discovered that the woman in the video had died of a drug overdose in…
We have been to the mountaintop and returned with this: the most Miami-tastic news story ever. Bang Bus porn star “Ramon” — famous for his giant penis — was arrested last week for keeping a menagerie of suffering farm animals locked in a vehicle on a 90-degree day…
State Senate President Mike Haridopolos has given up on his run for U.S. Senate.The ethically challenged 41-year-old sent an email to supporters early today saying that his run for Senate is conflicting with his duties in the Florida State Senate, according to Roll Call…
Two drive-by shootings in Miami this weekend that occurred just block and hours from each other resulted in the death of two people, and the injury of three others. The first critically injured a teenager, while the second claimed two lives and left two others injured…
A few months back, Riptide wrote about Ken Bereski, an IT consultant who’s become the Howard Beale to Miami’s cyclists who deal daily with life-threateningly awful drivers. Bereski was mad as hell, so he strapped cameras to his bike and started filming all the dangerous driving.Well this month, Bereski got…
After less than two weeks back in Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has flown back to Cuba for cancer treatment, according to the Associated Press.The leader initially vanished from public view after getting emergency surgery in Havana for what was originally called a “pelvic abscess” on June 20; Chávez has…
Trust the Miami Herald at your own peril, at least when it comes to the Miami Beach cop whose ATV critically injured two beachgoers while he was joyriding on duty with a lady friend two weeks ago.In last Friday’s edition, the Herald reported that Derick Kuilan, the 30-year-old at the wheel…
Casey Anthony doesn’t get out of prison until Sunday, but the crazies are already out nationwide.Shireen Nalley was arrested in Oklahoma last Friday after police say Nalley saw a woman who looked like Casey Anthony in a convenience store and then followed the woman and ran her off the road…
Shortly after midnight Sunday, Orlando’s Casey Anthony was released from jail three years and one day after her 2-year-old daughter was reported missing and less than two weeks after Anthony was acquitted of her murder.Anthony’s future is unclear, especially given the amount of public vitriol over what many see as…
Miami Beach Police Department S.W.A.T. Team was called in to handle a stand-off on South Beach tonight.An unidentified white male “barricaded” himself at 1309 Euclid Avenue, according to Det. Vivian Hérnandez. As of 10:15 p.m., both 13th and 14th Streets were blocked off at Euclid. A half-dozen squad cars were…
Though 15 percent of businesses in Miami-Dade County are owned by African Americans, only $260 million — 2 percent — of the county’s $13 billion contracts were awarded to black-owned businesses between 2006 and 2010, according to a press release from County Commissioner Barbara Jordan.”There is no commitment to black…
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Miamians were pissed off yesterday about Carlos Gimenez’s plan to shutter 13 libraries around town. So when we saw him at a groundbreaking ceremony today, we thought we’d ask Gimenez a simple question: what’s his favorite book? His answer: Fahrenheit 451.Yes, that’s right. Our library-closing county mayor’s favorite book is…
