True-aqua-blue Dolphins fans are probably torn this morning. Here they were hating Chad Henne and hoping their team would draft a quarterback and realizing they’d be stuck with the stinker from Michigan for another year when they didn’t, when their patron saint bequeathed them a parting message: You must believe…
Nine months ago, former Cuban President Fidel Castro said Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent who never failed to pop up when George W. Bush needed a foil. “Bush never lacked for bin Laden’s support,” Castro said at the time. “He was a subordinate.”Now that bin Laden is gone, however,…
With E:60’s feature on Dada 5000 and back-yard brawling, Outside the Lines’ investigation of gambling on South Florida pee-wee football, and now an E:60 doc about the horse-meat black market in the sticks of Miami-Dade County, ESPN’s reporters appear to have been camped out in our hood for the past few…
In news that you probably already knew was coming, Sporting News has named Miami Heat president Pat Riley NBA 2010-11 Executive of the Year after he put together the biggest free-agent signings pretty much ever. Know who else saw this coming? Nearly everyone else on Earth.The NBA’s official award for top…
Throughout its shining history, the great state of Florida has never bothered to put a law on the books explicitly banning humans from having sex with animals. In recent years, Broward Democratic state Sen. Nan Rich has led a charge to finally outlaw bestiality, but Republican leaders in the House…
Wow. We knew you guys detested the Marlins Stadium deal, but now we’re afraid Miami needs some serious, professional therapy (or at least a big morning hit of Valium) to cope with the Little Havana boondoggle.We got nearly one hundred suggestions after we asked for a snarky nickname for the…
Saddest story of the morning: An elderly Keys man has shot and killed his wife and his cat before committing suicide.Just after noon yesterday, Monroe County sheriffs got a call from Little Torch Key that gunshots had been fired inside an upscale, two-story house. Another neighbor called in to say…
Jeffrey Brown, a 19-year-old red shirt freshman on the University of Miami Hurricanes football team, has been charged with raping a woman on the school’s Coral Gables campus. Brown has been suspended from the team indefinitely…
Six lies about the Marlins stadium
British millionaire Ben Way wants a floating island in Miami’s back yard
Mark S. Gold sues strip club Gold Rush for charging him $18,000
Miami-Dade commissioners are rich!
Hialeah Police officer Raleigh Flowers abuses government housing programs
Cuba was once among the world’s great coffee exporters. Nowadays it’s running so short on beans and importing so much joe to feed the nation’s cafecito habit that Raul Castro has ordered state roasters to mix coffee beans with chickpeas to save cash.Mmmm, the bitter, chickpea-infused taste of communist production…
A construction worker died this morning after being trapped inside a metal cargo container near the construction site of a mansion on Key Biscayne. Fire rescue units attempted to save the man, but by the time they were able to free him, an apparent combination of the heat and his…
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Some whiny Celtics fans are complaining that their team got robbed in the first two games of their playoff series against the Heat. Whatever. They’re Boston sports fans. They’re apt to whine. Though, the team did literally get robbed in Miami last month. According to reports, someone had boarded their…
Workers being paid the minimum wage can expect to see a six-cent bump in their hourly pay come June 1st after a judge ruled that Florida was violating its own constitution by not raising the rate for 2011. That may not seem like a lot, but it does add up…
Some governors go on to higher offices after their terms end. Others continue championing key issues from outside the capitol or get into punditry. Very rarely do they go back to something resembling a normal 9-to-5. Well, Charlie Crist is now back at work as a lawyer at super-firm Morgan…
LeBron James wants to be respected just as much in the boardroom as he is on the ball court, but his latest business venture doesn’t seem like a sure slam dunk. A business co-founded by James introduced a line of disolvable strips that pack as much caffeine as a cup…
The Pakistani government and military is facing tough criticism after Osama bin Laden was found living rather comfortably in a large city in their country just minutes from Pakistan’s top military training academy. Rep. Allen West of Broward and Palm Beach, ever the reactionary Republican, is leading calls to potentially…
It generated one of the most controversial and heated debates of the legislative session and is a key agenda item for Governor Rick Scott, but it seems likely that conservatives’ efforts to pass an Arizona-style immigration bill in Florida is dead, despite the fact both houses are controlled by Republicans…
