Police Chief Miguel Exposito slumped silently against a wall, his hands clasped tight behind his back, as a parade of family members of men killed by his department petitioned the City Commission last night for one thing: Exposito’s head.”I have two sons myself and I’m asking you for their sake…
More than two decades of Miami’s best is available today on our new Best Of… app for iPhone. That’s right. You can check out categories like Best Dance Club, Best New Restaurant, Best Bar, Best Hotel, and many others.The app lets you check out not only current winners — this…
Following an outbreak of infectious diseases in the animal shelter, Miami-Dade Animal Services has announced that they will temporarily suspend numerous services for “no more than two weeks, effective immediately.” The shelter will no longer accept the intake of any new dogs. Most stray dog pick-ups will be ceased, as…
We have to drop our cold, cynical Riptide front for a second, because Busch Gardens’ new baby cheetah is literally one of the most adorable things we’ve ever seen. The 4-week-old, so-far nameless cheetah cub was born at Jacksonville Zoo, but his mother refused to feed him. So he was…
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Deal of the Day websites seems to be out of control in South Florida. Today, Miamians can log into Groupon for a deal on a sailboat ride. They can head over to Gilt City for discounts on three-course meals, keratin treatments, and custom shirts. Poll Dancing lesson fees are slashed…
Cornelius Miller lost his 19-year-old daughter Corneisha a year ago after a brutal murder. Now, he may lose his two young grandsons to the Department of Children and Families. Authorities feel that 62-year-old Miller is too old and sick to care for three-year-old Jemarcus and 16-month-old Rodgerick, and instead want…
Forbes thinks that one of the best ways to lead America out of it’s mounting debt is to spark long-term financial growth, and they think encouraging entrepreneurship among minorities is one of the best ways to generate that growth. Of course, like everything Forbes.com does, they’ve accompanied their point with…
Justin Bieber, either a cherubic being sent from heaven with the voice of an angel or an obvious agent sent from hell bent on destroying the world depending on your point of view, recently cut his trademark hair. Ellen DeGeneres, who coincidentally now shares a similar coiffure to the Biebz,…
Willa Mae Reed cries when she remembers the last time she saw her grandson, Tarnorris Tyrell Gaye. “He said he was getting a haircut, and he kissed me goodbye,” Reed tells Riptide. “I still got a lot of questions about what happened next.”Gaye was shot and killed by Miami police…
While our airport has a reputation for bringing constant misery, the past few hours at Miami International Airport have been exceedingly miserable, even by its own standards. First a fuel tank exploded that caused a fire that took hours to put out. Then, even before that situation was controlled, the…
TWCCL is a weekly installment bringing you all the news you need on the three issues that matter most to Miamians. COCAINE: Big Bust of the Week: Three tons of cocaine, seized by a French warship off of Costa Rica. Four Washington, DC elementary students were hospitalized after ingesting cocaine…
There are nights when the Miami Heat completely annihilate an inferior opponent and leave them buried in their wake of awesomeness by twenty or thirty points. Last night was not one of those nights.The Heat had to rally hard and overcome an eleven-point deficit in last night’s 100-94 win over…
The thing about really good journalists is that they aren’t like normal people. They’re slightly touched in the head. They’re generally well educated, clever and capable people who could be making a lot more in some other industry, but for whatever reason don’t. While most of us would respond 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…
South Beach rent scammer Monica Brown nabbed by victims
Fight over Modigliani masterpiece turns ugly
Finance director Larry Spring can’t keep his own house in order
There’s an old saying in journalism: If your mother says she loves you, check it out. It’s a facetious way of saying: Trust no one, verify everything. Yet some of the biggest, most respected media outlets in the country failed to perform their due diligence when it came to the…
The push by advocates to gain publicity at any cost often involves local law enforcement. Once again, the Super Bowl became a platform to push a religious agenda and bogus numbers. Last November, Dallas Police Sgt. Louis Felini was quoted predicting that up to 100,000 prostitutes would descend on the…
Women’s Funding Network sex trafficking study is junk science
Neil Julien, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, has been arrested on charges that he molested a 16-year-old girl back in 2005. According to NBC Miami, he allegedly molested the girl multiple time during the summer of 2005 while dating the girl’s mother. The charges surfaced after Julien was…
