Every week for nine years, Robert Teichert called his friend Rich in Florida. The two had met while working at the Champions Golf Club in Stuart and become buddies over hours spent drinking beer and fishing. They stayed in touch when Robert moved away.But this spring, Rich stopped answering his…
Fresh off of its Republican primary poll yesterday, Public Policy Polling, a democratically-aligned polling firm, has released new numbers showing that large numbers of Florida voters are less likely to vote for a Republican presidential candidate in 2012 thanks to the actions of Rick Scott. The poll comes on the…
On June 6, 21-year-old Luis Fumero pulled over a woman with a fake police badge and tricked her into having sex with him in order to avoid arrest. Now, Fumero is the one facing very real criminal charges…
Social issues have not been a driving force in local Miami-Dade politics for some time, with most voters more concerned with pressing issues like property taxes and budget problems. Today, however, the Christian Family Coalition of South Florida injected a big dose of social conservatism into the race by endorsing…
We like the idea that, in his final hours as the Florida Marlins manager, Edwin Rodriguez spent his time comforting relief pitchers who were terrified of ghosts. It’d be fitting for one of the youngest teams in baseball…
People send us some weird crap. Sometimes, it’s a tip that leads to a muckraking investigation. Other times, it’s a misspelled letter written with crayons on a cereal box informing Riptide that we will soon be headed to a fiery grave for our sins.Then there’s this: a mysterious photo that…
Nearly 10 years ago President George W. Bush signed into law the “No Child Left Behind” act. Among other goals, Bush believed his education reforms would help close the achievement gap between white and minority students. Well, the Department of Education released new data today showing that the achievement gap…
Elisha L. Dawkins was born in the Bahamas but immigrated to Miami as an infant. He was brought up believing he was an American citizen and after high school enlisted in the Army, where he served what he thought was his country in both Iraq and Guantánamo Bay. Now he…
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Mitt Romney is the man to beat in Florida as the 2012 Republican primary horse race heats up. Romney holds a ten-point advantage over second place finishers Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. Romney also benefits from incredibly low support for similar candidates like John Hunstman and Tim Pawlenty in the…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a bill that requires all people seeking welfare take mandatory drug tests. Interestingly, it turns out Scott has a younger brother who receives welfare and seems to have a history of drug charges…
Retired Gen. Rene Sanabria, who once ran Bolivia’s national anti-narcotics police unit, has pleaded guilty in a Miami court to smuggling cocaine. Sanabria and his co-conspirators were arrested in March and charged with trying to sneak about 315 pounds of cocaine into the Port of Miami…
LeBron James will be taking his talents to the Far East in August in what Nike was calling a tour of China. Problem is his schedule starts in Taiwan, and that government really, really doesn’t like even the slightest implication that it’s actually part of China. So now officials are…
Reggae superstar Buju Banton will spend the next decade in federal lockup, a judge in Tampa ruled this morning. The sentence comes after Banton — who played to a packed crowd at Bayfront in January and won a Grammy this year — was convicted of trying to engineer a cocaine…
Have you heard the one about the 65-year-old business traveler from Phoenix who likes to spice up his life by flying in women’s undies? He’d been flying US Airways in his skimpy attire for years, actually — until this week, when a passenger in Fort Lauderdale sent photos of his…
The Wilkinson Sword company was founded in 1772. It made bayonets.Now it’s making disposable men’s razors with scented handles and selling them by saying the aroma will help guys wake up in the morning.Schick and Wilkinson Sword merged in 1993 and have since been pushing seven-blade safety razors that never…
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People started freaking out on Twitter Wednesday night over an “article” indicating that BET host Rocsi Diaz was arrested in Miami for “attempting to steal over two hundred dollars in undergarments and high heels.” Except the article exists only as a screen cap and was written by someone who seems to have…
