In the early hours of August 10, 2007, Broward Sheriff’s deputy Chris Reyka was gunned down in the parking lot of a Pompano Beach drugstore. Despite a massive manhunt and a $270,000 reward, the mysterious case was never solved. Now, however, detectives believe they have their man: Shawn LaBeet, a…
Mitchell Igelko is probably the world’s worst neighbor. His reign of terror was caught on tape in 2012, and it’s left a slew of Kendall families in fear. Some of his alleged crimes: egging houses, killing lawns, firebombing a boat. In December of last year, the South Florida businessman was…
Of the many cultural artifacts one would think to find at Versailles perched in the heart of Little Havana — ventanitas, ropa vieja, a strong disdain for Fidel Castro — mold growing in the ice machine wouldn’t likely be one of them. But that, according to a safety report late…
Eddie Jackson Jr. was once a father figure to a budding basketball genius named LeBron James, but he missed out on a chance to watch LeBron’s debut in the NBA. Instead, he reported to the state pen to serve a three-year term for bilking more than $775,000 in a mortgage…
Oh, so it’s a dunk contest you want America? Well then, by all means, a dunk contest you shall have! LeBron followed up a day of butt hurt talking heads bashing him for not participating in their silly, outdated, doesn’t count, nobody will remember in a week exhibition with a…
In one corner we have the media and Florida’s notoriously progressive open record laws. In the other we have diminutive pop mischief maker Justin Bieber. The media, of course, had a field day when Bieber was arrested last month for supposedly drag racing while high down a Miami Beach residential…
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NFL draft prospect Michael Sam came out over the weekend. Though the public response from the NFL and many players was positive, an article full of off-the-record NFL sources showed there’s still some resistance to an openly gay player in the league. Apparently some older NFL types are under the…
The Cuban embargo has been in place for well over 50 years now to little effect, and now a new poll claims that a majority of Americans, and an even larger share of Floridians, believe it’s time to end it. The poll was presented this morning from D.C.-based think tank…
Manny Diaz’s legacy seemed set in stone on October 22, 2009. That’s when city commissioners voted 4-1 to approve Miami 21: the new-urbanism-inspired, pedestrian-friendly zoning code that then-mayor Diaz had spent eight years championing. Miami 21 put the city on track to rival great metropolises like New York and Chicago,…
Swami Parameshwaranada won’t tell you his name before he met Sai Maa, but he can describe how it felt to meet his mentor 20 years ago. “It was just this huge attraction and love,” says the man who would eventually quit his Manhattan job as a management consultant to become…
Have you said to yourself, Wow, I wonder if Marco Rubio has ever been stoned? Probably not, because, honestly, who cares? The funny thing is that Rubio refuses to answer the question because he thinks people might actually care…
Remember how bad the Super Bowl was last Sunday? That was awesome. Bad football is better than no football, and this past Sunday, that realization smacked lots of us dead in the face. If you didn’t think about the NFL being gone during the week. You figured it out when…
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Chris Bosh’s life imitates art… sort of. Last year, the Borscht Film Festival made sports blog headlines by producing an unauthorized animated short film that portrayed Chris Bosh as an intergalactic space prince. Well, now real-life Bosh himself is actually providing the voice for an animated inter-dimensional, all-seeing, and all-hearing…
On one hand the defection of a former state representative from the Republican party to the Democrats should be an embarrassment for the GOP, but it really speaks more to the sad state of Florida’s Democrats that people are already mentioning that state rep as a possible Charlie Crist running…
Miami is bizarre enough of a place already that sometimes we forget it’s one of three corners of the Bermuda Triangle, the purportedly supernatural stretch of the Atlantic Ocean where, according to myth, ships go missing under mysterious circumstances. Well, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency has released a statement…
Michael Sam is the reigning SEC defensive player of the year, a first-team All American monster on the defensive line who wrecked offensive tackles for 10 1/2 sacks in America’s toughest football conference. He’s also gay, as he announced last night. Considering that Sam is one of the game’s top…
Last month, Otis Wallace was once again elected mayor of Florida City. It wasn’t close. The reigning mayor won a whopping 71 percent of the votes cast in the small agrarian town south of Miami. Wallace has now been in office for 30 years, surviving hurricanes, the arrest of several…
Early Sunday morning a 2001 Ford Expedition sped onto Interstate 295 going the wrong way and exploded into a 2010 Hyundai Sonata, killing all four University of South Florida students inside. According to video obtained by Live Leak, a woman named Jada Wright was following the Ford Expedition’s trajectory heading…
The University of Miami Health System, one of South Florida’s largest health providers, has lost an indeterminate number of patient records including social security numbers and some health information. The Healthy System has been quietly informing patients of the Department of Otolaryngology of the loss, which was discovered more than…
It appears Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has now accepted that he’ll be sitting out an entire season after New Times uncovered his links to Coral Gables PED-pushing clinic Biogenesis.. A-Rod and his legal team have voluntarily dropped a lawsuit against Major League Baseball, the Players Association, and Commissioner Bud Selig…
