Last month, scientists released rare good news in Florida’s endless fight against invasive species: After collecting more than 150,000 giant African land snails, they’d nearly eradicated the pest from the Sunshine State. That’s great, because they’ve got a new disgusting import to turn their attention to. A peer-reviewed study published…
Jon Ranellone was cycling home in South Beach around 1 am last Friday when a car slammed into him. The accident, in front of the Panera at 14th Street, threw him from his bike onto the asphalt. But that wasn’t the worst part of the ordeal, the video editor says…
Unity on the Bay may practice worship in ways looked down upon by more conservative religious sects, but God’s good fortune has clearly blessed them in the real estate department. The iconic Edgewater church with a bayfront view has decided to put the 2-acre lot its called home since 1961…
With little advanced notice, Governor Rick Scott quietly signed the budget passed by the Republican-controlled legislature during special session, and used his line-item veto power to slash $461 million in funding from the original $78.6 billion state budget. Now several notable Republicans are criticizing Scott’s spend-thrift ways, noting that he’s…
British Billionaire Richard Branson does not know the meaning of subtly, and that was made all very clear today during his flashy press conference to announce that he’ll be launching Virgin Cruises, the latest subsidy in a Virgin empire that already includes hotels, record stores and space travel, right here…
Steve Karro, a substitute rabbi at Shaare Ezra Sephardic Congregation and a well-known local artist with his own gallery on Miami Beach, was shockingly arrested last month on charges that he molested an 11-year-old girl. Now the girl’s family claims that Karro handed the girl’s mother $500 in cash just days…
Carlos M. Gutierrez is about as unlikely an ally President Obama could possibly find in his move to thaw relations with Cuba. An old school Cuban-American Republican, Gutierrez spent four years as George W. Bush’s Commerce Secretary loudly blasting the Castro regime and helping Bush craft his hard-line stance on…
In the summer of 2013, Dr. Stephen Haggerty stood in the humid Liberian jungle, frustrated at the lack of progress. The swampy ground didn’t allow for heavy machinery, so diamond exploration in these parts was done the old-fashioned way. Seventy-five years old at the time, the geologist helplessly watched his…
A 13-year-old got more when he expected when he stole an SUV. There was a sleeping 6-month-old baby inside. The teen eventually gave up the attempted grand theft auto reasoning, “Nah, I’m not trying to go somewhere with the baby.” The incident occurred Friday afternoon near Northeast Miami Court and 78th…
The Florida Democratic Party has a history of placing bets on safe moderates, so its no surprise that the party establishment has clustered around Rep. Patrick Murphy as their favored candidate to run for Marco Rubio’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat. The problem is that those safe moderates don’t actually go on…
A dispute over dog poop between two dads on Fathers’ Day turned nearly deadly yesterday in Kendall. Omar Rodriguez, 66, face charges of attempted second-degree murder after he shot Jose Rey after Rey’s dog attempted to poop on Rodriguez’s lawn. The incident happened at about 9:30 p.m. in the area of Southwest…
Doctor’s Charter School in Miami Shores has, until recently, been a damn good example of Jeb Bush’s success in education — good teachers, test scores and athletics with a diverse student body run not by a giant school board. but a small board of local folks. But the chaos that…
When Jeb Bush was governor, Florida was roiled with the kind of debate that only happens in Deep South states with long histories of Civil War strife and segregation. As activists pushed for Florida to stop flying the Confederate flag — a symbol of racism to many African-Americans — Bush…
Bill Nelson is a 72-year-old man who has spent a total of 32 years in public office. He is Florida’s longest current serving state-wide elected politician. He flew on the space shuttle Columbia. He has literally been to space. He is a former Army captain. The man deserves some measure…
Dwyane Wade already has his own lines of ties and shoes, and pretty soon he’ll have his own underwear line too. Essentially, Wade will be providing everything a particularly classy male stripper needs in their wardrobe. Wade is the new face of Naked brand underwear, and will launch his own…
Every week a lot of of odd things happen in Florida. On Friday’s we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: a woman who threatened to kill President Obama in hopes it would get deported, a drunk Uber driver, and a man who reported his motorcycle stolen to cover…
On the morning after the Charleston shooting, where nine African-American churchgoers were murdered during bible study, a group of over 30 African-Americans protested outside police union chief John Rivera’s office in Doral. They held signs that read “Black Lives Matter.” “it’s very unfortunate what happened in Charleston and whats going…
When hundreds of thousands of Argentines planned demonstrations in cities across the country earlier this month to protest violence against women, Argentines in Miami rallied for their own version. Journalists and celebrities began to take up the cause in May, after Buenos Aires radio journalist Marcela Ojeda tweeted her indignation…
Miami-Dade Police Detective William Kostopoulos tried to use the cover of enforcing the law in order to break it. The 47-year-old is accused to pulling over drivers only to rob them of their money and other property. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced today that…
Though, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio’s home-state advantage in Florida may not guarantee victory in a general election (they’re both trailing Hillary Clinton in Florida), it certainly seems to be helping them among Florida primary voters. Another new poll released today by Quinnipiac shows that Bush is the frontrunner in…
Have you ever wanted to know more about where you come from? Perhaps learn about the origins of your family name, your great-great-great-grandfather, or if you hail from a long line of Spanish kings? Well now you may be able to. A new, searchable online archive has been launched for…
In a sea of Jeb supporters at his announcement Monday, Lucy Orlando stood out as a particularly impassioned. The 71-year-old grandmother of nine was decked in a red T-shirt of Jeb’s smiling face above “We love you, Jeb! From the Lucy Orlando Team.” “Jeb is Unique…He loves people…He loves education…
