Eight City of Miami officials and members of local charities were arrested today on corruption charges.The busts involved an array of unrelated scams — and come as the city’s finances are under intense scrutiny by federal officials. Mayor Tomas Regalado portrayed the arrests as the culmination of his promises to…
Yesterday, 944 magazine announced it was filing for Chapter 11 by touting how hot and sexy bankruptcy is. Well, there’s nothing hot or sexy about one of the lawsuits that drove the company into bankruptcy in the first place. A California event planning company claims that 944 refused to market…
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The Miami Heat squeezed past an awful Philadelphia 76ers team last night in a win that can only be described as “Eleanor Rooseveltian.” But as unsightly as it may have been, a win is a win. Last night’s 99-95 victory was Miami’s ninth in a row. That makes nine straight…
Last week marked the five-year anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo. Just ten days before the March 31 anniversary, Family Guy, which basically stays relevant by creating controversy, poked fun of the entire Schiavo affair by including a storyline about Stewie’s pre-school class putting on a play which included the song…
Twenty-three-year-old Diana Demayo, a recent graduate of the University of Miami, was beaten to death in Michigan last month. Twenty-four-year-old Peter Dabish, whose father co-founded the nationwide Powerhouse Gyms chain, turned himself in Wednesday for the murder (Dabish himself may own 20 percent of the company).Dabish allegedly beat Demayo to…
Everyone is either still scratching their heads or wringing their hands over Jason Taylor’s meeting with the New York Jets — the same team he hates, like any good Dolphin, so very, very much. The New York Post thinks that it could just be a ploy to get a better…
Miami-Dade saw not one but two cases of people impersonating our men in uniform in the past day. One was using the powers of the badge for evil, while another just really, really seems to enjoy the idea of being a firefighter.In the first incident, a man posing as a…
[jump] The Marlins ended up winning in extra innings, no thanks to Núñez, or most every other member of a bullpen that did its best impression of a seven-layer burrito — you know, just inviting runs. Núñez blew over a fifth of his save chances last year. If given the…
Minutes after Carlos Bertonatti drunkenly killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway, an officer clocked him topping 80 mph as he tore down Crandon Boulevard and dodged traffic with a bicycle wedged under his fender. His blood alcohol content at the time was at least .122 — well over the…
The bus-stop ads popped up last summer. They showed an image of a cyclist riding — ahead of a car — in the center of the road. “Bikes May Use Full Lane,” the posters read in thick black letters. They were part of a bike safety campaign, courtesy of the…
Power struggle between North Bay Village police and city hall gets ugly
Violence shocks Miami clubgoers
Cyclists on the Venetian Causeway have nowhere to go
God’s Power Offor, from Hialeah’s American High School, is the frontrunner in the Name of the Year contest
Brickell resident Stephen Koschal peddled serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s creepy paintings
A bunch of tea baggers held a rally on the steps of the Florida capitol up in Tallahassee today, and politicians including Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp came out and spoke to them while standing by a podium made to look like two crates stamped with the word “Tea.”Naked Politics reports…
Cuban dissident and political activist Adrian Leiva has drowned after trying to sneak back into Cuba aboard a boat, the Miami Herald reports.Leiva left Cuba for Miami in 2005, but wanted to return. He tried to re-enter Cuba legally but was denied by the government. After a three-month stay in…
Every once in a while, about as often as a blue moon, the conservatives on the Internet actually come up with something that is sort of hilarious. Not like “funny” in the way Glenn Beck is funny, but actually legitimately funny.See, now they want The Burger King to be the…
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944 Media basically publishes the same magazine in ten different cities, tweaks them a bit, and calls them local editions — one of which is distributed here in Miami. Now the company has filed for bankruptcy, though the company plans to keep publishing.”The whole point of this proceeding is to…
Jason Taylor, we’re not sure if Sparano and Parcells share in it, but the city of Miami loves you. We understand Big Tuna and Lil Tony don’t seem pumped on the idea of bringing you back for another season with the Dolphins, but why you got to play with our…
