If Maria Magdelina Montanez-Colon is guilty of anything, it’s being a little too honest. Well, that and trying to use 911 as her personal gigolo service. The 58-year-old Punta Gorda woman was arrested for repeatedly trying to get a police officer to have sex with her…
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The special election to replace deceased Florida Congressman Bill Young in Florida’s 13th congressional election is getting more national coverage than your average House race. In one of Florida’s few true swing districts, the outcome of the race between Republican David Jolly and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has…
The man in charge of administering the southern region of Miami-Dade schools has been temporarily reassigned following an arrest after a bizarre shooting earlier this month. On February 7, Dr. Alexis Martinez was involved in an incident at a home on SW 94th Place. Neighbors tell CBS 4 that they…
“Is there a supernatural dimension? A life beyond the one we know? Is there life after death? Do angels exist? Can our dreams contain messages from Heaven? Can we tap into ancient secrets of the supernatural? Are healing miracles real?” Sid Roth has been looking into these matters for more…
Update: According to his social media posts, JoJo Nicolas, the former Miami Hurricanes football player involved in this morning’s horrific crash on the MacArthur Causeway, had been partying at South Beach nightclub Mansion. Hey, South Beach drivers, still celebrating the news that the Alton Road construction might finish seven months…
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It was an odd week for former Miami Dolphins athletic trainer Kevin O’Neill. After getting pink-slipped by owner Stephen Ross for his involvement in the Incognito scandal he was awarded one of his professions highest accolades. On Friday, he was given the Fain-Cain Memorial Award for Outstanding Athletic Trainer of…
We still don’t have much of a clue as to what David Beckham’s Miami MLS team will actually look like, but we do know who won’t be designing their kits: Victoria Beckham. Granted, the former pop singer turned designer is known more for cocktail dresses and purses than mesh shorts,…
A road construction project in Miami-Dade that actually end not just on time but early? That may be the story with construction on Alton Road if all goes according to plan. The project — which has led to nightmarishly snarled traffic on South Beach for months — was originally scheduled…
In October 2012 just outside a pastel-painted Coral Gables apartment building, one of the largest gold heists in Florida history went down. A convicted thief named Raonel Valdez, who was supposed to be wearing a court-ordered GPS device, somehow jacked $2.8 million in gold from courier George Villegas. And within…
Just south of Oakland Park on I-95, drivers turn to stare at an eye-catching billboard. It shows a picture of an adorable golden retriever and this striking web address: KillThisDog.com. The website offers the same picture with a devilish choice: You can either save the pup or kill it. Choosing…
Even without LeBron, the Heat proved Sunday they can still dish out the L’s. Dwyane Wade showed America exactly why the Internet has given him his newest nickname: “Chef Wade.” He baked up that good ya’ll-musta-forgot cake Sunday afternoon meal. The ingredients included: 23 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists, two…
Roughly 8,000 people flooded JC Bermudez Park in Doral this afternoon to rally in support of student protesters in Venezuela. The overall message was one of unity, as Miamians from all of Latin America lambasted the government of Nicolas Maduro. But many admitted they expected more bloodshed in Venezuela before…
Even if you’re not Venezuelan, with the number of venezolanos in Miami soaring since Hugo Chávez took power in 1999, chances are by now you’ve got plenty of friends and co-workers who are from the oil-rich South American country. And for the past two weeks, all those friends and co-workers…
The fact that the Miami Hurricanes are stuck playing 21 miles away from campus in Sun Life Stadium sucks. The likelihood of the team ever getting their own stadium is slim. It’s a situation without many solutions, so news that there’s at least some interest in the Hurricanes perhaps becoming…
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Miami’s newest auxiliary bishop doesn’t deserve the promotion, according to the oldest advocacy group for people abused by priests. Although Malta-born Monsignor Peter Baldacchino has never been accused of any wrongdoing himself, the group thinks his silence on the issue of abuse in his home archdiocese in Newark is worrisome…
A Florida panther kitten has only been alive for one month but has already had quite an eventful life. The kitten was found in late January in Collier County while biologists were conduction field research. The one-pound kitten was found curled into a ball and suffering from dehydration and low…
Lloyd Jackson Jr.’s Valentine’s Day went pretty well. His date, Tammy Hamilton, 47, decided to stay the night. It wasn’t until he woke up the next morning that he realized that she had stolen his Ford Explorer. And that was only the beginning of his troubles. See, sometimes it is…
Eric Rico Ortiz has never seen a spider he liked. He’s terrified of them. When he sees them scuttling through his Deltona house, he scampers away in fright. So at the end of last year, he thought long and hard about that fear. And then he did what any well-reasoning…
LeBron James took a nasty shot to the grill late in last night’s 103-81 blowout of the Thunder, throwing shade all over the Heat’s impressive performance. Before LeBron hit the floor late in the fourth, he was making a lot of those MVP voters happy they used a No. 2…
