Context is everything, and Sports Illustrated says they have the full conversation leading up to Jeff Ireland’s now infamous question to Dez Bryant. But ESPN says it’s not true! Yahoo! Sports reported last week that the Dolphins GM asked Bryant if his mom was a hooker, before columnist Mike Silver tour…
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported who was at fault in this accident. We apologize for the error. The bicyclist who was ran into a motorcycle near the Soyka complex Tuesday night had been drinking, according to police reports.Pichardo Dearmas, a 52 year-old on a Huffy bicycle, was…
Talk about betrayal! Sen. George LeMieux says the he’ll support the Republican nominee over his old friend Charlie Crist: “I will support our Republican nominee and will continue to do everything I can both in Florida and across the country to increase the number of Republicans in the United States Senate.”A…
Florida’s senate race is already the hottest telenovela of the season. Imagine the actually open seat as a saucy and sensual young widower entertaining the advances of three men, but like every good soap opera there’s more melodramatic twists than a mountain road. Now a mysterious billionaire has emerged to try and…
Hugo Chavez just found this cool new thing on the internet called Twitter, and he’s only two years behind the rest of the world. He’s really excited about it though, even though he’s only on his second tweet, and reportedly wants the rest of Latin America’s Socialist Three Stooges, Fidel…
The trial of former Northwestern High principal Dwight Bernard for alleging covering up an on-campus statutory rape committed by a football player continues, and the Hurricanes star quarterback Jacory Harris was brought in to testify. Harris attended Northwestern and played with Antwain Easterling, the player Bernard was covering up for…
Any moment now Florida Governor Charlie Crist is expected to announce that he’s running as an independent for Senate. A crowd full of reporters and supporters have gathered at Straub Park in St. Pete, Fl to hear his announcement. We’re watching CNN where Wolf Blitzer says they’ll be covering it…
The people who were stupid enough to think a movie starring Paris Hilton could be a box office smash are still trying desperately to recover their losses in a Miami court.Hilton did something loosely resembling acting in the 2006 movie National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, a horrible little thing about sorority…
Charlie Crist is set to announce his intention to run as an independent for Florida’s open Senate seat today. Independent politicians are incredibly rare in America’s two-party system. An independent win is even rarer, though not unprecedented. So Crist’s venture isn’t completely uncharted. Here are the top five successful independent…
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Florida’s House of Representatives is pretty much closed for business today. That’s because Republicans decided to bring up a last-minute piece of pro-life legislation in the final days of the regular session. Democrats pulled a rare procedural move and have virtually shut the body down.Republicans added a measure that would…
Gentrification is a funny thing. And by “funny,” we mean totally horrifying.In Miami, it beckons wealthy club kids to traipse around the ghetto like a college dorm. Park West/Overtown used to be known for its crumbling buildings and crack houses. Now it’s the kind of place penniless neighbors roll their…
Dr. Kirk Gastrich, a researcher at Florida International University, was out diving in the Everglades yesterday studying the ecological impact of sharks. What he got instead was a firsthand account of a different type of shark impact.A six-foot-long lemon shark attacked Gastrich and bit into his elbow as he was…
Just before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, a man on a Huffy bicycle collided with a woman on a Yamaha motorcycle. They were just yards from the News Lounge and Andiamo Pizza, at the corner of NE 54th Street and NE Fourth Court. An ambulance rushed both of them to the trauma…
Even when you’ve got a good book, bus rides can be really, really, really boring. But you know what would turn that supershitty morning-transit trek into a full-blown fiesta? Pornography. Now, in the past, enjoying explicit sex pictures in public could be kinda tricky. But now, thanks to brand-new technology…
FDLE intelligence analyst gets caught snooping in a work database
Marlins rip out the Teal Monster to make a few bucks
Miami fails to make Daily Beast’s list of top pot-smoking cities
A report from Juarez, the bleeding front line of the war on drugs
The Crucifixion of Juarez
Did friendship cost Rothstein lawyer Melissa Lewis her life?
The official seal of Indian Creek Village depicts a closed front gate. That’s all the chic North Miami-Dade island’s 33 multimillionaire residents want you to know. You’re not welcome. So it was illuminating to attend a rare gathering last Tuesday of some residents, who include auto mogul Norman Braman, financier…
Overtown’s historic Lyric Theater hangs in limbo
