For more than a week, Riptide has brought you the shady plays that have turned Krop High School into a basketball powerhouse: recruiting players, inventing addresses, changing official records, and — of course — threatening journalists.The truth is, these tactics are often a hell of a lot more effective than…
Rick Scott’s decision to decline $2.4 billion in federal funds to build a state-of-the-art high-speed rail system in Florida continues to draw anger, ire and confusion today even from many Republicans. Today, a veto-proof majority of 26 state senators wrote a letter rebuking Scott’s decision, while even former Republican Governor…
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The number of babies coming straight out of the womb as drug addicts is rising, and officials say that Florida’s out-of-control problem with easily available prescription pain pills may be to blame. Nearly 1,000 babies were born in Florida in 2009 that had to be treated for drug withdrawal symptoms…
Joel Paul Williams is the fire starter, allegedly. The 33-year-old homeless man has been charged in connection with two of the four fires that have struck abandoned buildings in the Collins Park area of Miami Beach in the past few days. Though, investigators believe he may be behind as many…
Miami Beach police have arrested a suspect in a series of blazes over the past week in Miami Beach’s Collins Park neighborhood.Joel Paul Williams, 33, was booked Thursday morning and charged with two counts of arson in the first degree, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, burglary of an…
Former Florida Marlins star Miguel Cabrera, who in his rookie season helped the Fish clasp a World Series, has been charged with a DUI and resisting arrest up near his home in Port St. Lucie. It’s the latest downfall involving alcohol in the life of the gifted slugger…
As the dust settles after the disqualification — for real this time — of Krop High’s boys basketball squad, it will be reckoning time for Coach Shakey Rodriguez and the school’s administrators. In the last week, rampant rule-bending and outright cheating concerning the school’s basketball squad has been exposed, most…
Bean sprout teenaged basketball players from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, all wearing purple tracksuits, filled two rows of wooden pews in a downtown courtroom last Wednesday afternoon. Their parents and girlfriends — along with a few local politicians angling for publicity — filled the rest of the hall…
Shock nightclub was supposed to be a little slice of southern France on extremely un-Gallic Washington Avenue in South Beach. Montpellier-born impresario Julien Manival spared no expense in outfitting the space — once home to ’90s hot spot Liquid — in kinky red leather, high-def video projectors, and trippy LED…
Like werewolves drawn to milky lunar light, they gather next to the sea every 29 days or so: drummers with Rasta dreads, teens with cartons of Miller High Life, chanting Yoruba and Santería worshippers, and twirling fire dancers. Miami Beach’s full moon drum circles have drawn a unique crowd for…
It seems all millionaire athletes, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, like to bring longtime pals into their financial fold. What better way to show you haven’t forgotten your roots? But when your buds tend to end up in court facing credit card fraud, battery, and heroin dealing charges, you…
Pablo Marquez pumps his fists toward the rafters of Coral Springs Gymnasium. Sweat races off his forehead, dripping onto the soft cotton fabric of his royal blue leotard. His wide, brown eyes gaze menacingly at Ricky Young, a wrestler packing a chiseled 254-pound body into a six-foot-four frame. Marquez’s black-and-white…
Krop High’s boys basketball squad– already a district champion and a favorite to win state– has been booted from the playoffs. This time, it appears, for good. An appeals court today reversed a judge’s earlier decision to allow the team to play. Dr. Michael Krop High was barreling through the…
Organized crime is still alive in Miami, but after a crack down today not so well. Thirteen people throughout South Florida have been arrested and charged with ties to an organized crime syndicate. The arrests were part of a larger crackdown on a group called the Armenian Power gang. 100…
Former North Miami Beach public services director Martin King was arrested today and charged with 41 felony counts of money laundering for stealing millions in taxpayer dollars with fake work orders for sewer projects. After investigators looked into how $2.2 million in projects were unaccounted for, King admitted that he…
The Obama administration was set to spend $2.4 billion to build a high-speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando in a project that would have created thousands of jobs, but Governor Rick Scott has drowned the plan in a big pot of ideological tea killing all those jobs with it…
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As if ever-mounting eligibility conflicts weren’t enough turmoil for the state’s number-one-ranked basketball squad: Miami-Dade Police have issued a warrant for Krop High star guard Angel Rodriguez’s arrest after he skipped a court date yesterday. 19-year-old Rodriguez, whose play has propelled Krop to a district championship this year, was due…
Following three separate building fires and a spat of dumpster blazes in the Collins Park area of Miami Beach within eight days, officials have pretty much deduced it’s the work of an arsonist. Though fire officials and police don’t know who is behind the fires or why, they’re pretty sure…
John Loftus knows him some Nazis.The former Department of Justice prosecutor and St. Petersburg native has made a career out of revealing what he says is the US government’s deepest, darkest secret: how it harbored upper-level Nazis after WWII in order to defeat the Soviet Union.Now Loftus has taken up…
Scott Raab, the Cleveland-born Esquire writer who got himself banned from American Airlines Arena, still seems to have LeBron on his mind all the time. He sat down for an interview with comedian Chris Rock for the magazine and the subject turned to a long discussion of LeBron James’ infamous…
