The dead birds are back. A year after a slew of brown pelicans were found in the Keys with their pouches slashed, the bizarre bird mutilations have resumed. In recent weeks, more than a dozen pelicans have been found with their gullets fatally cut. “It’s a mystery,” Maya Totman, director…
Gov. Rick Scott has never received 50 percent of the vote in Florida. He spent most of his first term with approval ratings that would make Enron executives blush with shame. His personal narrative includes a detour into the largest Medicare fraud penalty in American history. This is a man…
Brace yourselves, Miami, this will shock you: The NCAA rule book is a joke. The latest evidence comes via King James himself. This past weekend, the Ohio State Buckeyes football team arrived at their hotel rooms to find $300 Beats by Dre headphones nestled atop each of their pillows like…
In Miami, identify theft starts young. Brothers Stanley and Steven Fertil, now just 20 and 19 and who started an ID theft ring more than two years ago, have been sentenced to nine and 12 years in prison respectively…
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While most of Florida was celebrating Tuesday’s arrival of gay marriage, Archbishop Thomas Wenski was busy drafting a memo reminding all employees of the Archdiocese of Miami that they could be disciplined for publicly supporting gay marriage. “Whatever the role in which you serve within the Archdiocese, you publicly represent…
Krishna Maharaj, the British millionaire imprisoned since 1986 for a double murder, won’t be getting out any time soon. Despite dramatic courtroom testimony from crooked cops and retired drug runners, circuit judge William Thomas shot down Maharaj’s motion to overturn his conviction for killing two businessmen in a downtown hotel…
Amid a roiling national debate about police oversight, the Miami City Commission last night voted to take away Miami PD’s ability to investigate its own police shootings. Instead, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement will probe those deaths. Miami’s police union president didn’t take the news quietly. Sgt. Javier Ortiz…
No one has died more times than Fidel Castro. But yesterday, rumors began flying anew in the Cuban-American community — and, of course, on Twitter — that the Cuban leader has finally bitten the dust and that a possible news conference today will announce his demise. Could the speculation finally…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest…
Medical marijuana supporters have officially started to repack their bowls for 2016. Attorney and main supporter John Morgan has officially filed a new amendment with the Florida Secretary of State today with hope of getting it on the ballot in time for the next presidential election. See also: Don’t Worry,…
Nike likes to showcase a lot of its out-there designs on the Oregon Ducks. Under Armour has provided some interesting uniforms for the Maryland Terrapins. And now that the University of Miami has aligned itself with Adidas, the Hurricanes may find themselves sporting some very eye-catching gear. See also: After…
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Riding Metromover is a bargain. It’s absolutely free. Well, county commissioners are toying with the idea of adding a $1 charge to the service, that’s if they ever get around to it…
Even most hard-line Florida Republicans have accepted that gay marriage is here to stay. As thousands of LGBT couples from the Panhandle to Key West have tied the knot and business leaders have trumpeted the economic boost gay weddings will bring, the state GOP’s response has ranged from Attorney General…
Ornan Antoine was just trying to get home. It was a rain-laced July night around midnight in 2013. The stocky, gap-toothed Haitian was pedaling down SW 28th Avenue, heading from a buddy’s house to his own sea-green single-story bungalow a few blocks over in the Melrose Park section of Fort…
Gay marriage has been legal in Miami-Dade for three whole days, and hundreds of couples have already tied the knot at the courthouse or in mass weddings like a gathering at Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Of course, many others are waiting to have their storybook shindig, complete with all the…
In the wake of this morning’s devastating terrorist attack in Paris, where masked gunmen stormed the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people, spontaneous rallies have broken out from the Place de la Republique near the site of the attack to London, New York, and Berlin. The…
You can’t accuse Marco Rubio of self doubt. The Florida senator has not yet made a decision about whether or not he’ll run for president, but he’s seems pretty damn certain that if he did run, he’d totally be sitting in the Oval Office come January 2017…
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These days, Alex Rodriguez must spend more time in courtrooms and lawyer’s offices than he does on the field. The suspended slugger is now facing a civil lawsuit accusing him of screwing his former brother-in-law out of profits from real estate dealings in Miami’s Edgewater and Morningside neighborhoods. Back in…
Justin Robert Muoio pressured his victim for years to work as a prostitute while he lived off of her profits. When the woman got pregnant, Muoio didn’t relent. Prosecutors now say he advertised her services to fetish clients and made her work for two months while she was with child…
