Buying a house in Miami has never been cheaper in recent times, but that’s probably because so few of us are actually in a financial situation where we can buy a house. Though the alternative, renting, continues to be an economic burden for many South Floridians. The metro area leads…
Brickell Citicentre was one of the most ambitious development projects announced during the height of Miami’s epic construction boom, but it canceled after the bottom fell out of the market in 2007. The project’s collection of skyscrapers would have forever altered the Miami skyline, while its massive retail space would…
News flash, Miami: Fidel Castro ain’t dead yet. But a pre-death run on Fidel memorabilia and signatures is driving prices through the roof. Apparently, autograph hounds are tailing Fidel these days like that creepy sweatpants guy following Hanley Ramirez at spring training with a trash bag full of rookie cards.So…
A City of Miami Police officer has shot and wounded a suspect in Little Havana. Ricardo Orta Jr., a 19-year-old, is in stable condition this morning at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The shooting happened outside a dollar store in the strip mall near NW 14th Avenue and West Flagler Street around…
Ah, it’s been too long since we’ve had some good ol’-fashioned Rick Sanchez-brand inanity. On a hunch — do we know our man or what? — we checked the revision history of the Wikipedia page for Sanchez, the former WSVN-turned-CNN anchor who is currently unemployed after calling Jon Stewart a…
Dwyane Wade scored 26, Chris Bosh added 22, and LeBron James finished two assists shy of a triple-double in last night’s 97-91 win over the Philadelphia 76ers.But more important, we finally have the answer to the question: Who should have the ball in his hands when the game is on the line…
Dave Duerson’s secret life and tragic end
Ronald Miranda: 30 years on the run
South Florida politicans’ most memorable racial slurs
Ponzi schemer Marguerite Martial Jean rocks Little Haiti church
South Beach towing companies go to war
The roads of Miami-Dade are an asphalt hell full of asshole drivers. It’s simply a fact, and sometimes someone might cut us off. Sometimes such an incident might even devolve into a roadside confrontation, but it really& is not a good idea to bring guns into the equation.A man has…
Orlando Bosch, a hero to many in Miami’s Cuban exile community and an unrepentant terrorist to others, has died at the age of 84 in Miami after a prolonged fight with illness. Bosch, a fierce anti-Castro militant, had been linked to several violent acts in his life, including the bombing…
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Ana V. Ramirez’s 25-year-old son, Christian Pagan, has Down syndrome. In April 2010, Pagan flew into a violent rage, and Ramirez had little choice but to call 911. She specifically asked officers not to use a Taser because Pagan has a heart condition. Well, they zapped him anyway, and now…
Despite little evidence to the contrary, President Barack Obama offered further proof today that he is in fact a natural-born American citizen by producing his long-form birth certificate. With that issue sorted out, we now call on the American media to investigate the circumstances of Rick Scott’s birth. Riptide has…
Another sign things are slowly getting better in the 305: Miami International Airport reports that 9.3 million passengers somehow survived getting through the airport in the first three months of 2011. That’s the highest number of passengers during that part of the year ever for MIA, and a 6.1 percent…
Gov. Rick Scott has denied a report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that his administration aims to kill Citizens Property Insurance during his first term. Scott claims he’s merely sticking to his campaign promise to reduce the state-run home insurer and return it to its original intent as the insurer of last resort…
Remember that time a superideological politician held a town hall and a lot of people from the other end of the political spectrum showed up and yelled not such nice things at him and he decided to completely change his political outlook overnight and everything worked out in the end?…
Padre Juán Ramón O’Farrill’s sermons against Fidel Castro and the communism that had taken root in his native Cuba were so passionate that when he died, a stretch of NE Second Street was renamed in his honor. But a lawsuit to be unveiled this afternoon paints a much different picture…
An argument between two students yesterday afternoon at Miami Norland Senior Senior High School turned violent when one student pulled out a gun and shot the other in his rear end. The 17-year-old victim is recovering, and his injuries are not life-threatening. However, the student who shot him has so…
According to a lawsuit recently filed by a girl’s mother, last year RealityKings.com uploaded a hard-core porn featuring her 15-year-old runaway daughter, who used the stage name Bieyanka Moore. Though Reality Kings has claimed it removed the offending video “immediately” after being informed she might be underage, Moore’s film has…
