305 Photo of the Day: Night Light
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Showing 9967 - 9988 of 31934Marlins Trying to Woo Ichiro Suzuki With One-Year Deal
The Miami Marlins are apparently keen on pairing its young talents with some future Hall of Famers. The team is reportedly trying to sign former ten-time All-Star and 2001 AL MVP Ichiro Suzuki to a one-year deal. However, the Japanese slugger is now 41 and in his last season with…
WTF Florida: Radio Station’s Porn Star Foursome Contest Prize
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest…
New Photos Allegedly Show Filthy Conditions at Miami Palmetto Senior High School
In the wake of this week’s controversy involving free speech, social media, and allegations of filth at one Miami-Dade high school, students at another are reportedly sending out their own pictures of unhygienic conditions. The new photos were taken by students at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, according to Lisa…
Bill Filed in Tallahassee to Toughen Penalties for Drivers Hitting Bikers
The last time a hit-and-run driver killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway, it sparked a new law in Tallahassee: the Aaron Cohen Life Protection Act, which toughened penalties against drivers who flee fatal accident scenes. This week, yet another cyclist is dead and another is seriously injured after an…
Two Cabinet Members Want an Independent Investigation of Rick Scott’s FDLE Ouster
Rick Scott knows a thing or two about emergency damage control. This is the same executive, after all, who survived his company getting hit with the biggest Medicare fraud fine in history, escaping with a golden parachute and a path into politics. Last night, Scott showed his finest scandal-ducking form…
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Miami Wants to Add 1,600 New Acres to Its City Limits
By population and size, Miami is actually one of the smallest U.S. cities that anchors a major metro area. Well, local leaders want to make the city a bit bigger. The plan is to try to annex 1,600 acres around the Miami River and near the airport. Though that’s not…
305 Photo of the Day: In The Weeds
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Miami Expected to Be Florida’s Slowest Growing Area Over Next 15 Years
Florida just overtook New York to become the third most populous state, and our population growth isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon. According to a new interactive analysis from the Urban Institute, Florida should add 4.1 million new citizens between the official 2010 census tallies and 2030. That’s a…
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Miami Herald Political Writer Marc Caputo Leaving for Politico
David Rivera didn’t want to talk. The embattled ex-congressman had walked into a Miami clerk’s office to file paperwork for a comeback bid expecting a quick photo op and a few softball questions from a Spanish-language TV crew. Instead, he found Marc Caputo and his handheld camera. The beautifully awkward…
Witnesses Raise New Questions About Fatal Police Shooting of South Florida Teenager
It was December 13, 2012, when 40-year-old Sunjee Louissaint, a soft-spoken woman with gentle eyes, looked across the front yard of her West Palm Beach home and saw two green-and-gold-striped Palm Beach County Sheriff’s cruisers.Two deputies had pinned her 17-year-old son, Devin, to the ground. She heard a bang and,…
Miami’s 12 Biggest Instagram Clichés
Miami is one of the most selfie-obsessed cities in the world, so it only makes sense that we’re all obsessed with Instagram. But even if a picture speaks a thousand words, it certainly seems like Miamians keep saying a lot of the same things. We can’t help but broadcast photo…
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Sunset High Principal Lucia Cox Out Amid Filth Allegations, Free Speech Criticism
Dr. Lucia Cox, the recently embattled principal of Miami Sunset Senior High School, resigned Wednesday following days of uproar stemming from students’ viral social media posts about school conditions. “Recognizing the best interests of Miami Sunset Senior High School, its students, faculty, and community and standing firmly on the high…
Miami Leads Nation in Millennials Who Still Live With a Parent
Last month, the Miami Herald published a column titled “Downtown Miami a Magnet for Millennials.” That’s also a myth that the Downtown Development Authority and other city leaders like to push from time to time as well. Of course, we all know this is a stretch of the truth at…
305 Photo of the Day: Plane Gang
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Miami Heat Fans Named Best in the NBA, According to Math
Remember all that talk about how Miami Heat fans are fair-weather at best and they didn’t really deserve LeBron James? Well, not true says Forbes’ math. Apparently we’re the best fans in the entire NBA…
Man Roasted to Death in North Miami Beach Sauna, Found by Daugther
“His skin was so dry. It was like a burnt piece of beef jerky,” Laura Antiporek told WSVN about finding her 68-year-old father roasted to death in a sauna. Sunday around 11 p.m., Dennis Antiporek decided to take a relaxing visit to the sauna at the Eden Isles Condominiums in…
Five Reasons This Miami Heat Season Hasn’t Completely Sucked
The Miami Heat is under .500, and that sucks. Are we all together on this one? OK, good — we can move on to less depressing facts of Heat fan life, like the things that haven’t sucked in 20014-15 thus far. There are a few things that haven’t sucked, I…
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Another Cyclist Killed in Rickenbacker Causeway Hit-and-Run
Update: The cyclist killed this morning has been identified as Walter Reyes. His cycling partner, Henry Hernandez, is in serious condition at a local hospital. Police say the driver fled the scene but later returned, and investigators are looking into whether he was intoxicated. For cyclists around South Florida, this…
North Miami Beach Bans Offensive Mug Shot Targets but Stops Short of Firing Police Chief
Another police controversy, another case of cop unaccountability. North Miami Beach officials apologized Tuesday for city police using mug shots of black men for target practice. In what seems to be a national trend, however, no cops were held accountable for the incident. “It’s real sad,” said Lisa Kelly, the…
Batman’s True Creator Never Got Credit, and Now His Granddaughter Fights to Correct History
Video by Mitchel Worley and Ryan Pfeffer Evil is bald. Evil is bearded. And today, Tamerlane — who passes for evil personified here at UltraCon — clunks his combat boots down the turquoise carpet of the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, swinging around a riding crop like a five-star…
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Carlos Curbelo’s Spanish SOTU Response Was a Weak-Sauce English Translation
Watching freshman Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo deliver the Republican Spanish-language rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, one could only wonder: Where the heck was Sen. Marco Rubio to hand his homeboy a tall drink of water? You might recall Rubio took a break from his response…