The story of the stand-off at a Homestead reptile farm has more twists and turns than a snake slithering through the jungle. Riptide has learned that Bruce Stephenson was found dead after a stand off with police while he had barricaded himself in a home on the premises. Tom Crutchfield,…
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If Isiah Thomas talked much about his job as head coach at FIU basketball during his interview with Fox Sports’ Bill Ritter it didn’t make the copy. Instead Ritter paints a picture of a man in a situation he doesn’t want to be in desperately hoping to one day soon…
Spanish tennis player David Ferrer, currently ranked sixth in the world, was knocked out of the Sony Ericsson tournament in Key Biscayne yesterday by American Mardy Fish. Though, Ferrer directed his angriest swing toward a crying baby in the stand. Yep, the guy actually sort of tried to hit a…
The Florida Marlins kickoff their 2011 season against the New York Mets tonight, and while the game marks the last, first game the Fish will play at Sun Life Stadium, their home tank over the past 18 years, it may be the final home opener the Marlins have until 2013…
A Federal Judge has ruled that Florida should have approved the request of a group looking to honor a group of rebels who waged war against the United States in the name of slavery. U.S. District Judge John Antoon II ruled the state’s specialty license plate law unconstitutional because by…
Earlier this week, a 16-year-old girl was waiting for her bus, instead she almost was forcibly dragged into the back of a stranger’s car. City of Miami Police are on the search for a man who tried to abduct the girl. His original attempt was thwarted, but as he drove…
You can’t spell success without PMS.At least that’s the logic of a pair of Miami investment bankers and a tech guy from Texas. The decidedly estrogen-free trio has created a free email newsletter that notifies men of what’s happening with their woman’s menstrual cycle. They call it, of course, The…
The sign says: “Available Development Site: 3.35 Acres. Will Build to Suit.”But there’s no building going on at the corner of NW 2nd Ave. and 22nd Terrace. Instead, dump trucks come and go at all hours of the day and night, depositing giant piles of asphalt and gravel torn off…
Paul Thorington, 22, Anthony Albano, 23, and Ray Joseph Laranjo, 23, the three men charged in a brutal gang rape at the Fontainebleau following a Miami Music Week pool party, have been granted bond and will be allowed to return to California. If they make bond, they will be placed under house…
At Tom Crutchfield’s Reptile Farm in Homestead, you can find deadly creatures such as Chinese bamboo vipers, Mojave rattlesnakes, black Pakistan cobras, and, apparently, right now, a man with a gun. Yes, according to reports, a man has barricaded himself inside a building on the property after shooting another man…
Chad Pennington is a man of many comebacks. Heck, he’s a two-time NFL Comeback Player of the Year, but his latest quest to return to the gridiron hit a snag when the former Dolphins QB tore his ACL while playing basketball. He’ll undergo knee surgery for the injury and was…
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It’s in the 80s and perfectly sunny here in Miami, but our state-mates in the central part of Florida aren’t enjoying the same good weather. An apparent tornado that ripped through Tampa has left many areas in Central Florida in disarray. But a report carried by numerous national media sources…
First Republicans were upset that a Democratic lawmaker displayed his passport so openly in public, and now they’re upset that another Democrat dared to say the word uterus on the Florida House floor. Rep. Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) cracked a one-liner including the word while arguing about Republicans’ peculiar stance on…
The University of Miami has a whole lot of proud history that the team hasn’t bothered living up to in years, and new coach Al Golden is hoping to return the team to the glory days. In fact, he’s bringing Michael Irvin back into the locker room, or at least…
Bill Nelson has done a pretty decent job of upholding the tradition of being Florida’s sort of boring, painfully moderate, generally congenial Democratic Senator. His approval/disapproval numbers right now are a somewhat worrying 38/34, but when he’s placed head to head against all the possible Republicans who could challenge him…
Your grandma probably has an email address, even if it is only to forward you weird chain letters. Everyone uses email these days. Everyone but Rick Scott, apparently. The man has asked constituents not to email him because he gets “embarrassed” by the form of communication. For a governor who has…
This week’s New Times feature, “Talent Trap”, tells the story of Choice Learning Academy– later named Center of Life Academy– a tiny school in a homeless shelter that defrauded the state of learning-disability education funds and illegally recruited basketball players from around the world to board them in an Opa-Locka…
Gallup-Healthway’s annual “Well Being Index” takes a wide-ranging reading of physical, emotional, and mental health of political districts on the state, metropolitan and congressional levels. The just-published statistics for 2010 don’t give such a healthy diagnosis to Florida or the Miami metropolitan area, but perhaps most worrying is the fact…
Cats on the internet are supposed to make us laugh like peanut butter on jelly is supposed to be delicious, but every once in a while a cat story comes along that makes us bawl our eyes out uncontrollably. While the cat at the center of this story happens to…
As we count down the full list of 2,000 personalized license plate requests reviewed by Florida’s Obscenity Board — a mind-blowing document we got our hands on a few weeks ago through the Freedom of Information Act — we’ve learned a few things about the good folks of the Sunshine…
