In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality. So where are the high-tech drones buzzing to next? Miami-Dade County, natch! The Miami-Dade Police Department is poised to become the first large…
Miami police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a live-in boyfriend and girlfriend couple that happened sometime in the last 24 hours, reports The Miami Herald. Police believe the girlfriend shot and killed her boyfriend before shooting herself…
Urban Meyer’s resignation couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Miami Hurricanes. While it’s all just chitter chatter at the moment, it makes total sense that UF would be interested in Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen. Which is bad news for Miami AD Kirby Hocutt, who reportedly possibly…
Twenty-four-year-old Derrick Burts has revealed himself as “patient Zeta” — the porn actor who tested positive for HIV and set of a scare earlier this year in California’s adult entertainment industry. Burts, who was only active in porn for a few months, occupied an interesting place in the industry by…
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Yet another of Florida’s “big three” college football teams will be coach-less as Urban Meyer is expected to his announce his resignation as coach at the University of Florida at a press conference later this afternoon. From a statement Meyer has already released it seems that the decision is linked…
The wayward ways of former Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños’ troublesome son Rolando Bolaños Jr. have finally caught up to him. Bolaños Jr. has plead guilty to strong armed robbery of a bank stemming from an incident last year in which he made off with $2,389 from a Bank Atlantic…
The Miami Hurricanes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish will meet for the first time in two decades in this year’s Sun Bowl in a renewal of one of college football’s most intense historic rivalries.Of course, a lot of things have changed in those two decades, and both teams finished with…
Steven Posner lived with abandon. Perhaps a little too much, according to county records.Posner, who died last week in a high-speed boat crash on Biscayne Bay, was an avid car and boat enthusiast. But his need for speed sometimes led him to run afoul of the law. County records show…
Tony Montana was one bad dude. But he’s no match for gentrification. 728 Ocean Drive in South Beach was once a location seedy enough that Colombian gangsters dismembering a dude with a chainsaw didn’t seem like much of a stretch. Today, the building that hosted one of Scarface’s most notorious…
Just after 7 p.m. last Tuesday inside Miami Beach City Hall, two high level bureaucrats settled a heated argument the old school way: With some good ol’ fashioned fisticuffs.Police broke up the brouhaha after Charles Carreño, the Capital Improvement Projects director, allegedly grabbed assistant to the city manager Emanuel Mayer…
Alex Rodriguez may play ball in New York, but it’s well known he swings his other bat down here in his childhood home of Miami. This leads to a number of unsettling rumors about his latest jump offs fluttering through town, but his latest alleged hook up literally just makes…
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You’re a suspect in an armed robbery. Your get away car has just crashed after you’ve lead police on a high speed chase. You get out of the car and pull an “unknown object” that may or may not be a gun on an officer. You’re shot. You’re down. You’re…
If state senator Evelyn Lynn has her way, there will be no more rush-hour digital hankypanky on Florida highways. In fact, there would be no more digital anything allowed while driving in the Sunshine State.Lynn’s recently introduced Senate Bill 80 would ban “text messaging, e-mail, instant messaging, or paging, while…
With Mad Men reviving interest in the swank side of the ’60s, and Miami always a popular setting for TV show it was only a matter of time until someone launched a show set in 1960s Miami. Premium cable channel, Starz, today announced that they’ve greenlit Magic City, a drama…
LeBron James probably thought he had gotten the worst of it from still-seething Cleveland fans when he returned to town for the Heat’s 118-90 demolition of the Cavaliers. He thought wrong. As fate or, well, the NFL schedule would have it, Sunday’s game at Sun Life Stadium between the Browns…
It’s that time of year again. Yep, that time when conservatives and cranky Christian organizations start moaning about “the war on Christmas,” claiming that businesses and organizations’ decision to either ban holiday decorations all together or favor generic winter decorations somehow suppresses Christianity. The Florida Department of Transportation is the…
While the Hurricanes are still in the midst of finding their next head coach, the quality recruiting class former coach Randy Shannon had begun to put together is falling apart. Miami Northwestern QB Tedd Bridgewater, rated the second best dual threat quarterback in the country by Rivals.com, has reversed his…
Shatarka Nuby already had breast implants, but they weren’t big enough. And her arms! They needed liposuction, stat! The only problem: Nuby didn’t have $9,000 to pay for all that work.So that’s when the 29-year-old lifted a college application out of a mailbox, opened a fraudulent credit card, and went…
Heads up, Miami-Dade. Tyler Weinman is going to sue yo’ ass.Weinman, 19, was arrested last summer and charged with 19 felony counts of animal cruelty after investigators found dozens of dead cats in several Miami neighborhoods. The charges were eventually dropped, but not before Weinman was imprisoned, forced to undergo…
Must everything in Miami be endorsed by a marginal celebrity and decorated by Romero Britto? The answer to that question, clearly, is yes…
