Miami Police arrested four young suspects, including two teenage girls, on suspicion of robbing a Little Havana man at gunpoint early this morning.Salene Cala, age 14, and Estefay Ferrera, 16, were arrested after police pulled their car over just after 6:30 a.m. They’re accused of helping an 18-year-old man, Olin Lopez, and a…
The Coral Gables Gazette has gone online-only. [Herald]Police arrested a 16-year-old boy in the June killing of a Metrorail security guard. The kid has been arrested ten times since he turned 11. [Herald]Donte’ Stallworth is now allowed to leave his house to work with a trainer. [Reuters]Advocates are calling for two Haitians caught trying…
When Riptide saw the news this week that an all-star band of celebrities and local power-players — including the always busy Emilio Estefan and Alonzo Mourning — was trying to bring the World Cup to Miami, we were tempted to laugh it off as a pipe dream.But then we remembered…
All the names being floated around as our next temporary senator have been of the masculine persuasion. Why not some ladies? Time magazine adds to the ever-growing list of Senate maybes with two women. Minority women in fact. First up is Miami’s own Rep. Anitere Flores. She’s the deputy majority leader and is the only Hispanic female in…
Today’s photo comes from the Library of Congress. Taken in 1904 by photographer J. N. Chamberlain, it shows Seminole Indians canoeing along the Miami River. …
In hip-hop, Jay-Z is God, and since he declared Auto-Tune dead, we’ve hoped that would put a swift end to the career of professional Auto-Tune abuser T-Pain. (I will never understand how a musical technique pioneered by Cher became “gangsta.”) Dolphins majority owner Stephen Ross didn’t get the message, and drafted…
You know what’s delightful? Knowing your tax money goes to slimy guys such as convicted Medicare crook Ramon Santos. Riptide certainly sleeps better at night knowing we helped finance his shiny new Ford Expedition. Sigh. Last Friday, the 42-year-old faux-nurse from Hialeah was convicted for health-care fraud and obstruction of…
So, we kept hearing that Bob Martinez, as in the former one-term governor, was in the mix to be appointed to the Senate. The thing is, well, he’s 74 years old, which isn’t necessarily a barrier to be a senator. But he was not a very popular governor thanks to a botching…
We could argue all day about communism versus capitalism, but neither is immune to the worldwide economic slump. In fact, it seems communist Cuba is hurting so bad it can’t afford one basic necessity: toilet paper. Reuters reports Cuba might not get enough TP to meet demand until the end of the year.Cuba…
Something was funny about the landlord. A little too eager, maybe, but — for a pocketful of extra cash — aren’t we all these days? Renter Sandy Sanchez, a straight-talking 54-year-old, didn’t think much of it. She stood inside a spacious two-bedroom duplex on NE 112th Street last week and…
Mr. Clucky, perhaps the most famous rooster since Foghorn Leghorn, is apparently leaving town. Clucky’s owner Mark Buckley told Local 10 he’s packing up the fowl, his girlfriend Wallflower, and all of their shared worldly possessions and heading to rural New Hampshire, where Buckley owns a farm. In May, Buckley was fined for keeping Clucky as…
News flash out of Davie this morning, courtesy of the Associated Press: Dolphins training camp really sucks ass, and coach Tony Sparano knows it.Fullback Matt Quillen, a 24-year-old prospect out of the fightin’ New Mexico Lobos, lasted only one day under Sparano’s apparently brutal and unprecedented regime of running around out in…
Kendrick Meek attacked Charlie Crist (his possible foe in the 2010 Senate race) for not handling stimulus funds in a way best for Florida. [PBPost]Some d-bag was arrested for using his camera phone to take up-skirt videos at Aventura Mall. [NBCMiami]”Don Diego” Montoya, a Colombian drug kingpin, is expected to plead guilty…
Florida used to get about 14,000 requests for concealed carry permits each year. Now the state gets that number every month. The influx has been so severe that Commissioner of Agriculture Charles Bronson’s staff can barely keep up.According to the Capitol News Service, 150,000 permits might be granted this year alone. In…
Remember Jason Wetherington? New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman penned a story about the lad, who apparently went around blabbing he had a hotel-room tryst with Gov. Charlie Crist in 2006. Wetherington also worked for Katherine Harris’s hilariously failed 2006 Senate campaign. Anyway, per Norman, he’s been charged with stealing three…
George L. Metcalfe is an Orlando-area lawyer who likes to spend his time writing about gays having sex with children. His first piece of pedophile fiction was somehow published in the Florida Bar News, but sadly George had to edit his creative masterpiece down to 350 words. Not content with just…
Today’s colorful photo comes from MigRodz’s flickr…
Washington Post blogger and former Mouthpiece Theater cohost Chris Cillizza adds another name to the list of possible politicos Charlie Crist could appoint to Mel Martinez’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat: former state Rep. Allan Bense.Add that to a list that already includes Jim Smith, Gov. Bob Martinez, George Lemieux, Dan Webster,…
Dr. Alex Farshchian, the Miami Beach doctor who treated Michael Jackson, seemed to be very pro-active with his patient, to say the least. Yesterday, Britain’s Sunday Mirror claimed Farshchian prescribed a drug to Jackson that is used as a form of chemical castration. The Mirror said the doc’s spokesman confirmed that, “Yes, that’s…
Recently fired Local 10 anchor Charles Perez took his side of the story to the Daily Beast today, in a wide-ranging column explaining why he’ll continue his suit against WPLG, claiming they fired him because he was gay, attacking the state of the news business, positioning himself as a gay…
Hank — a 2,000-pound, 20-foot-long, 47-year-old crocodile — was found dead in his Jungle Island home. [NBCMiami]Teens who take the GED will no longer receive the standard diploma. [TBO]State officials have some questions about the proposed airport slot machines. [Sentinel] “A Central Florida woman claims she was duped into changing a man’s…
Yeah, this movie probably didn’t help humans feel sympathy for sharks.Miami Beach dive-boat captain Michael Beach has always admired sharks as a primordial link to a lost age. “They’re so primitive, so unevolved, and so unchanged,” he explains. “When you see one in the wild, you realize you’re seeing something…
