Florida is no longer the preeminent launch pad to the stars. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off into space from the Kennedy Space Center today for the final time, marking the end of NASA’s historic space shuttle program. The event leaves both the future of American space exploration and Florida’s Space Coast in question. View…
This week’s cover story tells the tragic and inspirational stories of three patients at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince: from a young man born anew after his amputation to a teenage girl cut down by chance and circumstance.For an even closer look at Haiti’s health-care crisis, take a look at…
Just months after Miami Shores residents elected their first openly gay councilman, village council has unanimously voted to offer domestic partnership benefits to its gay employees. Miami Shores is now the sixth municipal government in Miami-Dade to offer such benefits, following Miami, Miami Beach, North Miami, South Miami, Palmetto Bay, and…
Happy first anniversary, LeBron James! It was exactly one year ago today when you got down on one knee sat on one seriously uncomfortable-looking wooden chair and announced before God and the entire ESPN-watching world your intention to enter an unholy union with Miami and our professional basketball franchise. Well, actually…
Republican leaders are still eager to host Florida’s presidential primary election earlier than most states, but they’re hoping to avoid a repeat of 2008’s fiasco. Leaders plan to set the primary in early March, just days before the traditional Super Tuesday — even if that means holding the election on a…
Lawyer Jose Baez didn’t start his professional career defending capital murder cases. Before he successfully got Casey Anthony off the hook for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, he was just another guy who couldn’t get admitted to the Florida Bar because he was a deadbeat dad — the Orlando Sentinal reported Baez had a…
A trial date has finally been set for the 2009 murder of Juan Rivera at Coral Gables High. Beginning July 19, 19-year-old Andy Rodriguez will face a judge and jury for second-degree murder charges. …
If you’ve gotten married in Miami Beach and you haven’t had Lil Wayne drop by your ceremony to pose in your wedding pictures, it’s almost like you haven’t gotten married at all. A promo for an upcoming MTV2 series follows Wayne as he walks through the streets of Miami Beach…
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Floridians have packed on the pounds in the past 15 years, with 62.6 percent of Floridians now considered overweight or obese. That’s up from just 49.1 percent in 1995. Not exactly a pretty picture for a state where swimsuits are considered customary growth. Though, Florida’s rank among states has actually…
In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren’t quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for same-sex couple. It…
Jaded Hipster bible Vice has no love for the Sunshine state. Blogger Sam McPheeters unleashed on our peninsula in a recent blog post, casting the state as “a violent, dong-shaped netherworld of grifters, drug smugglers, gun runners, swamp nazis, hobo killers, killer hobos, elder abusers, kidnappers, skinhead tweakers, sex maniacs,…
If fans of the Casey Anthony trial were outraged by Tuesday’s verdict, they’re probably steaming after this morning’s sentencing. She will be a free woman by next Wednesday. That means Anthony, 25 and in excellent shape, can attend Splashion at LIV next week and shop for a bikini for the…
Not all shoppers in Miami-Dade are feeling the heat of the area’s crappy economy. The Village of Merrick Park, the poshest shopping mall south of Bal Harbour, lately has been doing gangbusters. Sales are up 10 percent from last year, with figures rising over the past 11 months. Good to know…
Finally a political polling firm has decided to poll on something other than politics. Public Policy Polling surveyed Floridians on another contentious topic: sports. The poll shows LeBron James isn’t exactly that popular in his new state, while Florida’s favorite pro team is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the favorite college…
A new chapter of the Jack McKeon Is Really Old Chronicles was written last night: The 80-year-old Marlins manager skippered a game against the son of a player he managed in the early 1970s.John Mayberry was the Kansas City Royals’ hard-hitting first baseman when McKeon took the reins for the…
Derick Kuilan, the cop fired for slamming his ATV into two beachgoers last Sunday — allegedly while drunkenly joyriding on duty — didn’t make the list we published last year of Miami Beach cops who earned six figures. But it turns out he came pretty damn close.Kuilan hauled in $91,032.51 in salary…
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy; they will sing before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth.Psalm 96:10-13Last Friday the Herald wrote a fawning article about Notre Dame…
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