Feds yesterday arrested 30 people in three cities, including Miami, for Medicare fraud. Dr. Fred Dweck, 14 of his patients, and one unlucky guy who was photographed being handcuffed, man-tits and all, were among those arrested in Miami. [MLive | Herald]A thief is targeting churches and synagogues in Miami Beach and stealing audio equipment…
A month ago, the choosy choosertons from the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency hit SoBe looking for the next health-and-fitness model — AKA the next hot piece of tail — hot enough to rep the firm known as one of the most elite sources of the long, lean, and leggy. Entrants had…
The above might not be their funniest comic, but, uh, it’s actually coming more or less true in South Florida, because we don’t exactly have an overrun of decent, normal human beings here. Arnim Ramdass won a share of a $19 million Florida Lotto with 16 of his co-workers at…
[jump] “I agree with the letter that was just received from Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink. Accordingly, I have directed Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel to conduct an inquiry of the Department of Transportation,” Crist said in a statement.Meanwhile, we will eagerly continue to cover this scandal using the most…
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This seems almost as ridiculous as that Onion piece claiming Lil Wayne was recruited by the DEA to get rid of all the drugs in Mexico, but this one actually isn’t an attempt at satire.It’s no secret Weezy calls South Beach his part-time home and has his primary residence in…
Perhaps after a long, stressful day of crunching numbers and contemplating layoffs, some Miami Herald executive decided to go for a walk to clear his head. This being Miami and all, he came across a beggar asking for spare change. Wait, he could have thought, Maybe we have it all wrong…
This makes a lot of sense looking back at it: Miami Dade College was responsible for administering tests to Miami-Dade Police officers to be considered for promotions, but the college screwed up the process. So cops who didn’t get good scores were sometimes promoted, while officers who did well sometimes were not. In one…
For about two years, Daniel Zajac has lived in a tent tucked behind a big tree along the northern banks of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. “I can’t live in a shelter,” explains the jittery 47-year-old transient who wears a baseball cap reading “New York” and a William Taft mustache. “I’m…
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Stephanie Kopelousos, Florida Department of Transportation Secretary, seems to like her breakfast food. So much so that in order to get her attention you have to put something like “Pancakes” or “Waffles” in email headlines. Or so says her staff.The Palm Beach Post infers that those wholesome hearty breakfast staples…
Any Canes fan will tell you the media, especially ESPN, hates Miami, but ESPN aired its two-hour apology in the form of Rakontur’s fantastic documentary, The U, this past weekend. One segment, of course, focused on that perceived media bias, and right on cue, the media is stirring up some controversy…
The Epic Hotel, in its quest to be fancy, has killed a man and hospitalized two others. It installed a powerful water filtration system that actually filtered out chlorine and caused the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires’ disease to grow. Four hundred guests were evacuated while the hotel figures out how to fix…
No holiday would be complete without free booze, and as always, Miami New Times didn’t disappoint. The tweetup was held at Waxy O’Connor’s by the river, coinciding with another Miami Music Festival gig.The Scenestress (@newtimesstreet) arrived to hand out name tags, but not many @ signs were visible. Present were a handful…
If we had told you before this game started that the Dolphins would only manage to score 14 points in the first half, zero points in the second half, turn the ball over three times in enemy territory, but will still win the game, you would have stabbed us in…
The other day, 44-year-old Carlos Iglesia was jogging in Kennedy Park when he heard a strange noise. It sounded like a lady screaming in pain — or intense pleasure? — so he slowed down to investigate, and found several wild peaheans huddled behind an old fence. “They yell like a…
Florida is such a swing state that we’re even polarized on whether or not we think spanking children, aka “Corporal Punishment,” is acceptable or not.Seems Talking Points Memo has found a correlation between child spankers and John McCain voters in 2008. Florida is almost directly on the trend line, with…
via RakonturHow is it that a man who’s paid to review television doesn’t seem able to grasp ESPN’s The U in the same way that writers who don’t generally review films do? Oh right, because it’s The Herald’s Glenn Garvin we’re talkin’ about.While other early reviews of Rakontur’s documentary on…
Are we the only ones who think the snow flakes that go up this time of year on the Bank of America Building look like giant glowing infectious sores? Probably. Sorry to ruin a holiday tradition. Today’s photo come MagicCity305’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join…
It figures: The only time construction doesn’t render portions of Biscayne Boulevard clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic is when the road is closed completely.As part of the two-year reconstruction plan, the portion of Biscayne currently under construction from NE 29th to NE 33rd streets will be closed between 9 p.m. and…
The three dozen “Ladies in White” who took to the streets of Havana on Human Rights Day on Thursday hoped to bring attention to husbands, fathers, and friends serving time in Cuban jails for speaking out. But it was the government that made the strongest case that human rights are…
Although the year in social media in Miami has been no laughing matter, the South Florida club decided to end 2009 at John Martin’s last night with Freddy Stebbins’s comedy show. But first, there was the usual mingling and networking, which this month included the guys behind a Cuban social…
