Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, president-elect of Haiti, visited Miami earlier today to announce new surcharges designed to fund education in the earthquake-ravaged country.Speaking in both English and Kreyol at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Martelly said that deepening ties to Miami’s Haitian-American community was one of his priorities for his…
Rick Scott wants to run Florida like a business, but he seems ideologically driven to make sure the state isn’t in the business of much. Fresh off a Pulitzer win for investigative reporting, Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune yesterday filed a shocker claiming Scott aims to kill Citizens Property Insurance,…
Thursday brought the strange and tragic news that a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy might have fatally shot his mother while playing with a handgun in Miramar. Now, as the investigation continues, some friends and relatives of the victim, 33-year-old Julia Bennett, aren’t buying the original story and believe that the boy’s father,…
The Miami Heat’s big three are under such close media scrutiny they can barely blow their noses without it being reported, but Chris Bosh might have been able to keep his wedding to Adrienne Williams a few weeks ago under wraps. Although public records indicate Bosh tied the knot, he’s…
Every night, hundreds of unlucky partiers stumble out of South Beach clubs to find their cars gone, hauled to a grim storage lot on Bay Road and held for ransom. Towing is big business for the Beach’s only two licensed companies — Tremont and Beach Towing — and since their…
The Miami Heat shot 39 percent from the floor, went 5-for-23 from the three-point line, got only 16 total points from their bench, zero points from their starting point guard, and 1 point from their starting center.But all everyone is going to remember from their 86-82 Game 4 loss to…
We cannot fathom a world where former SNL star and proud Miami native Victoria Jackson didn’t go on her weird rants about her strange political beliefs. I mean, we don’t agree with anything she squeaks, but we will fight to the death for her right to squeak it (and, of…
Just a year after the BP oil disaster in the Gulf and just in time for Earth Day there are reports of oil washing up on the beach at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne. Oil has also been spotted on the shores of John U. Lloyd…
Charlie Ely says she took part in the crime only because others threatened to kill her if she didn’t go along with the plan.
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Rick Scott apparently hates alligators. He hates them so much he’s had them skinned and made into his really tacky, gold embossed, custom “governor” boots. He hates them so much that he doesn’t want to even be near a live one, unless he had a gun and is shooting at…
Taser guns are supposed to be a less deadly alternative to subduing out-of-control suspect, yet a surprising number of people have died in Florida after being stunned. Just today a man at a movie theater in the CityWalk section of Universal died after police used a Taser on him. The…
For a coaching job that isn’t exactly one of the most high-profile in NCAA basketball or even on the University of Miami’s campus, the search for a new leader for the Hurricanes’ next men’s basketball team sure took a lot of twist and turns. Hampered by a concurrent search for…
Thieves in Miami will steal anything that’s not nailed down if the opportunity arises. Unfortunately, you can’t nail down your pet parrot, because that’s just animal cruelty. So keep a watchful eye on your feathered friends, because one was recently stolen from a Miami Beach apartment. Thankfully, a vigilant policeman…
Over the past decade, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has become the Cuban government’s number one supporter. His oil subsidies help keep the embargoed island afloat and, in return, he welcomes Cuban doctors to Caracas’s poor, inner-city barrios.So his latest praise for the economic changes approved by this week’s Sixth Cuban…
The Philadelphia 76ers jumped to an early lead, keeping the Miami Heat at bay for much of Game 3.And then the Heat said enough of that already and rallied their way to a 100-94 comeback win to take a commanding 3-0 series lead.The Heat should know that, although we fans…
Rev. Terry Jones, perhaps Florida’s most vile exporter of hate since Anita Bryant, is set to face trial over a planned protest near the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan. Apparently, encouraged by the response he got first from his threat to burn Korans and then actually carrying out…
Forty-five percent of Republican voters say they believe President Obama was born oversees despite not a single fact pointing to that possibility. Surprisingly, though, Republican politicians from South Florida are lining up to knock the theory down. Echoing statements made by Marco Rubio, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart dismisses the conspiracy theory…
Apparently, no one in Coral Gables has given Frank Martin a call, but they have reached out to another pretty enticing candidate to fill the men’s basketball coaching vacancy. George Mason University has announced they’ve granted their coach Jim Larranaga permission to talk to Miami about the job, and the…
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Floridians have seen the controversy that’s erupted in Arizona over their controversial immigrations bill: the economic boycotts, the worries of racial profiling and charges of racism, and the arguments that it violates the US Constitution. Yet, a majority of Floridians have said, “We’d like what they’re having,” despite the fact…
Barring some sort of bowl matchup, the Florida Gators and the Miami Hurricanes won’t meet again on the football field until 2013, but the two programs are always locked in an intense recruiting war for players and, occasionally, personnel. Wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill was one of the few staffers…
