An Immigrant’s Heart: To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia Amparo-Alvarado needed a big heart — but not this big
J.J. Rendon is Latin America’s Karl Rove
When Bill McCollum ran in the 2004 Senate Primary, Republican opponent and eventual victor Mel Martinez sent out a campaign flyer calling him the “new darling of the homosexual extremists. Now insurgent billionaire candidate Rick Scott is attacking McCollum for supporting supposedly “pro-abortion and pro-homosexual” Rudy Giuliani in the 2008…
Jim Greer, the disgraced former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, is already in trouble for allegedly misdirecting $200,000 of party money to a company he owned. Now, during that investigation new, weirder allegations have popped up. Mainly that Greer held fundraiser events and meetings with a “No Girls…
They wantonly spilled oil into the ocean, lied to federal regulators and bent the rules, prosecutors say. Now they’re looking at serious prison time for their crimes against the environment.Yay! Justice at last for the BP spill!Wait, we’re not talking about Tony Hayward or any other BP execs? They’re all…
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If we were conspiracy theorists we’d have some half-formed theory that whenever Miami played host city to the Super Bowl there is some secret plan to make sure the Dolphins don’t make it to the big game. It would ensure that other team’s fan bases travel down in droves with…
Step 1 of the Miami Heat’s master plan might be near completion if Miami Herald scribe/radio host Dan LeBatard’s Twitter feed is to be believed. He reports that a mega sign-and-trade deal between the Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat is pretty much done in principle.The Heat would get Chris Bosh,…
Last time we wrote about Gerald Posner, we showed — in excruciating detail — how the disgraced South Beach author appears to have plagiarized at least 35 passages from dozens of sources in two books, Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom. That story came a few weeks after…
A man and his family returned to their home on the 3600 block of NE Fourth Street in Homestead early this morning after a long vacation. They noticed it seemed like someone had broken in during the absence, but soon realized the burglary was actually in progress.Caught in the act,…
We know that the moment we say anything is free, the masses head out in droves (free garbage, anyone?), but today’s local Social Media Day, held at the Pelican Hotel, is so much more than just free champagne. Once you can see past the really basic fonts on the logo,…
Florida has consistently snagged the dishonorable title as the nation’s most dangerous state for cyclists and pedestrians. But on Tuesday, it was Miami-Dade that got the crummy prize. Twelve cyclists died in the county in 2009, seven more than the year before, and the most of any county in the…
Every day that the shattered remains of Deepwater Horizon bleed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Marco Rubio seems to fall a little farther behind nemesis Charlie Crist in the polls.The biggest reason: Crist gets to strut around Pensacola Beach every day in rolled-up shirtsleeves, talking about how he has always been…
South Beach is one of the world’s pre-eminent locations for sexy bikini photo shoots. Which is just one reason why it’s a really good idea to care about fighting pollution.In other words, please keep our beaches clean and our photographs just a little bit dirty.The national Surfrider Foundation commissioned a…
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Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh apparently did have that free-agent summit this past weekend in Miami, according to ESPN.com. The Yalta Conference of the NBA, if you will, apparently discussed the possibility of all three teaming up on the Heat roster. Either the media is engaged in a vicious conspiracy to raise the hopes of wary…
Police are remaining tight-lipped about the mysterious shooting this past Saturday at the Miami Beach Resort & Spa that involved a rancid odor and the evacuation of the prime minister of Belize, but racy details are emerging.CBS4’s Jim DeFede reports the shooting victim was a tourist from Russia who arrived with a friend…
The U.S. defeat at the hands of Ghana this past Saturday was the inevitable letdown after the euphoric last-minute victory over Algeria last week. There are a lot of questions looming now for this team, with the coaching staff, some of its players, and whether their Round of 16 World…
A man, identified by a neighbor as “Enrique” and possibly in his 40s, was shot to death by robbers in Miami Lakes last night. The murder took place around 7 p.m. near the Palmetto Expressway and NW 67th Avenue.When the man arrived home, two men were waiting near his house…
So last week, the Marlins canned manager Fredi Gonzalez for no clear reason, sort of like how they canned Joe Girardi for absolutely no good reason, and now they’re on a search for a new skipper. Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine was reportedly a candidate, but word on the street…
By now, Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado’s grand April news conference to announce his personal anticorruption unit’s first probe has been enshrined in the Political Catastrophe Hall of Fame, somewhere in the Mission Accomplished Banner Memorial Wing. The lingering question is, how much will Regalado’s botched job ultimately cost taxpayers? As…
The nominations for ESPN’s annual attempt at putting on an awards show, The Espys our out. As if to underscore the city’s all-around sports mediocrity, players with Miami teams only got two nominations. The first is a given, the other is kind of surprise. The Heat’s Dwyane Wade is nominated for…
