Yesterday, the Miami Herald published a story online including a sort of pompous but not really controversial quote from Heat star Dwyane Wade in which he said he accepts that people may hate the team, but other teams will be thanking them when they come to town and sell out the…
Did you really think Lindsay Lohan was going to do any hard time for breaking probation yet again? There’s better chances of her staring in Freaky Friday II. Sadly, her short-lived incarceration will just hasten what seems more and more likely to be her ever-shortening life. The thing is, if…
A veteran CBS4 cameraman has been charged with a felony after tussling with cops at a City Commission meeting last week in an argument over filming in a “restricted area.” Tony Jerez, the station’s longtime helicopter photographer, brought the session to a halt when he clashed with an officer in…
Once hailed by executives of the Tribune Co. as a television revolution and a way to turn around the fortunes of the troubled national media company, WSFL’s South Florida Today morning show aired its last episode today. In under 16 months on air the show went through multiple format changes,…
In today’s roundup of horrible things: A toddler is dead after his father tells police that a boxing lesson went bad and neglected to call 911, another toddler is recovering from a gunshot wound, a mother is charged with beating her four kids with extension cords, and another Florida panther…
Twitter looks like an amazing place to work. The social media giant requires you to surf the web, sit in on power meetings with Kanye West which turn into impromptu performances during lunch hours, and as evidenced by their latest recruitment video, they have a slew of during and after…
Fourteen-hour work days in ungodly heat in a city full of Al-Qaeda operatives and insurgents intent on killing you. Daily visits from soldiers whose minds have been shredded, if not by shrapnel than by the stress of fighting for years far from home.And you thought your job was tough. Local psychiatrist…
Surprise! Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum still opposes gay adoption — notwithstanding the spectacular downfall of his hand-picked anti-gay expert, George Alan Rekers. “I don’t believe the gay family model is good for kids,” McCollum said this week to the Sun-Sentinel — which duly noted that one…
Just after 10 this morning, a 28-year-old Cuban immigrant named Yankier Crespo got into a fight with another man riding in his black Camry. The yelling turned into a fistfight, and the men spilled out onto SW 57th Ave.What happened next, police say, is the just latest incident in one…
Near the top of any perv’s dream wish list of celebrity sex tapes is probably one featuring Miami-born, Cuban-American hottie Eva Mendes. Well, she’s well aware of the internet’s demands, and the actress, who stars in the upcoming The Other Guys, has finally giving into the demands. She’s released a…
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Things had been running pretty smoothly for the Miami Dolphins since training camp began last Friday. Chad Henne is looking sharp, Will Allen is looking fluid, and newly acquired Pro Bowl wide receiver Brandon Marshall is downright blowing shit up. But all the good times and double rainbows came to…
Demetrius Jordan, 20, was drinking and smoking pot Saturday night before getting behind the wheel of his Chevy Impala and cruising the streets of St. Petersburg at 80 mph.Kelly McConnell, 19, on summer break from the University of Miami, was riding home from a movie with his father and two…
Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp will betray the man who helped raise the former Ft. Myers-area state rep from political obscurity to, um, political semi-obscurity by announcing he’s endorsing Marco Rubio for Senate. Kottkamp was little known before Charlie Crist chose him as his running mate in 2006. Though now that…
In today’s roundup of horrible news: A woman is arrested after being shot in the face with Botox needles and never paying, a tourist was shot in the face with a gun, and a teenage boy was shot in the head while his 1-year-old niece was shot in the foot…
LeBron James’s move to the Heat isn’t just enticing people back to downtown Miami. It’s causing them to drop crazy money like it’s 2006 all over again, just to be near him. Case in point: millionaire Russell Wright, a Tony Stark-esque defense contractor and country music impresario who is also…
Early on a dark Caribbean morning, on a sandbar just off Harbor Island, one of the great fugitive chases in American history came to a gunshot-punctuated end. Colton Harris-Moore, the “Barefoot Bandit” famous for fleeing a Washington halfway house and hijacking Cesnas, surrendered to police officers after they riddled his…
Of all things Haiti needs as it rebuilds after January’s devastating earthquake are prostitutes. Yet Time reports today that post-quake Haiti has attracted a startling number of sex workers, mostly women from the neighboring Dominican Republic, who were told the number of foreign aid-workers and amount relief money coming to Haiti would equal…
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hit new levels of ego-infused insanity last month when he had the bones of South American hero Simon Bolivar dug up to prove some weird conspiracy theory, and then live tweeted about crying over the remains. Inspired by the insanity, Christopher Hitchens recalls a trip he…
Just three days after WSFL newsreader Lisa Hayward was arrested for crashing her car into a tree and booked for DUI with a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, her husband, WSVN reporter Derek Hayward, was arrested for suspicion of domestic violence after an incident involving Lisa. According…
OK, so the folks at Hasbro have created a lot of Monopoly games — and we mean a lot. But they might have missed the boat, because someone else has come up with the genius idea for Social Media Monopoly. Right now, it’s just a bunch of images and simulations of what…
