The Miami Heat must really want to not have the second seed in the Eastern Conference, because they came out and completely crapped themselves last night in a 90-85 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.With Dwyane Wade and his hobbled thigh on the bench, the Heat turned the ball over 16…
Police instructor Acie Mitchell turns terminator in Miami film Dope Boys
Kids claim abuse and violence at Thompson Academy, a for-profit juvenile lockup in Pembroke Pines
Caroline Schwitzky: Porn and the beauty queen
Miami Police shootings: Ex-FBI chief Paul Philip lumps dogs in with people
The Daily Cramp attempts to explain PMS to men
Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the way, not to mention what’s likely to be heavy local opposition…
LeBron James is set to go global by buying a piece of one of the most storied soccer teams in the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, James is set to enter a deal with Fenway Sports Group that would give him a minority stake in the Liverpool F.C.,…
Only 42 percent of white voters in Florida voted for Barack Obama back in 2008, but he still managed to narrowly win the state. A new analysis from National Journal suggests that Obama can manage to capture even less of the white Florida vote in 2012 and still pick up…
Florida legislators are hard at work trying to pass a law that would ban students from wearing baggy pants in the classroom, but baggy pants have actually saved a teenager life — well, sorta. Seventeen-year-old St. Petersburg resident Kendrick Williams escaped an alligator attack because the reptile could only manage…
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Florida’s so-called Arizona-style immigration bill, which Governor Rick Scott campaigned on, is looking less and less Arizona-style as it makes it way through the state legislature. Republican state Senator Anitere Flores, who had authored the original Senate version of the bill, helped approve a number of measure that would strip…
At some point, anyone who’s ever gone clubbing on Washington Avenue has felt like the whole thing was an elaborate ripoff. But this? This is insane.The FBI today has busted an Eastern European ring that set up a half dozen fake clubs in South Beach that existed solely to steal…
A 16-year-old girl in Homestead was raped Sunday after accepting a ride home from church with Edwin Carrillo-Garcia, 23, a fellow parishioner. He’s accused of driving her instead to an unknown area and raping her in his car before driving her home…
There are only three acceptable situations in which it is OK to snatch a woman’s weave: (1) Bitch just stole your man, (2) you are on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, or (3) you are a police officer who has reasonable suspicion that a suspect is hiding stolen cash under…
Florida residents are getting a big gulp of Tea Party policy thanks to Gov. Rick Scott, and so far they don’t seem to be enjoying the bitter taste. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, 48 percent of Floridians disapprove of Scott’s job performance, up from 22 percent in February. Fifty-three percent…
Last night, a 24-year-old named Jamal Singletary pulled an assault rifle and started shooting at an officer in Allapattah. The detective pulled his own weapon and fired back, killing Singletary on the spot, police say.Singletary becomes the eighth suspect killed by police fire in an urban Miami neighborhood since last…
From Ohio to Wisconsin, organized labor is under attack. In that mitten-shaped slab of cheese up north, governor Scott Walker used a budget bill to kill collective bargaining. In Ohio, the working man is even worse off, with no Super Bowl to distract from the state’s assault on public employees.Not…
In February, after I posted photos that renegade animal rights activist Richard “Kudo” Couto claimed were evidence of brutal animal sacrifices, I was beckoned to the Hialeah office of Oba Ernesto Pichardo. The Santería high priest took a 1993 case involving animal sacrifices all the way to the U.S. Supreme…
It’s good to know that during these hard times, our state senators are focusing on the big issues. Issues like addressing Florida’s dire need for an official state amphibian. Thank goodness that state Sen. Steve Oelrich (R-Cross Creek) has taken up this pressing concern and is making sure the barking…
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine is expected to resign in order to run for Senate from his home state of Virginia, leaving one of the most important posts in the party — and by extension Washington, D.C. — up in the air. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents portions…
Regardless of what’s actually on the mind of University of Miami interim athletics director Tony Hernandez, the media has already anointed Kansas State coach Frank Martin the frontrunner for the Canes’ open basketball coaching job because of his considerable connections to the Miami area (connections that involve a past high…
