305 Photo of the Day: Check Mates
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Showing 12497 - 12518 of 31970Miami Man Tried to Trade iPhone for Sex With Underage Sugar Baby
A few months ago, New Times chronicled the world of Miami’s “sugar babies,” women who date rich older men with the expectation of receiving money and gifts in exchange. And while that’s certainly ethically questionable, at least those women are adults. A Miami man was arrested after he traveled to…
Disabled Man Sues Miami-Dade For Taking Away His Service Pitbull and Slapping Him With Huge Penalities
The cops arrived at about 6 a.m. in the morning, waking up Felix Conde’s sleeping sons. Seven officers forcibly entered the home and peeked into bathrooms and closets, searching for a single dog named Lucky. He wasn’t there. A week earlier, the 3-year-old pet was moved to an animal trainer’s…
Jeff Ireland’s Contact Info on Twitter: It Was Bad for Him
Hell hath no fury like an angry Twitter mob. The place is just downright mean sometimes, and the last thing you want is said mob armed with your personal contact information. Welp! That very, very unfortunate thing happened last night to Jeff Ireland, and as you can imagine, this didn’t…
Testimony: Megan Fox Joke Spurred Son’s Killing of South Miami Commissioner Father
Jason Beckman is currently on trial for the shocking 2009 murder of his father Jay Beckman, a South Miami commissioner. Testimony from one of a Beckman’s fellow inmates provides a bizarre motive for the slaying. The younger Beckman apparently snapped after his father made a joke about actress Megan Fox…
A Topless Footrace: Why Real Leader Jake Long Wouldn’t Have Allowed the Incognito-Martin Scandal
So Richie Incognito bullied Jonathan Martin. Enough already. It never would have happened had Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland not let Pro Bowl left tackle Jake Long walk in the offseason. The void in leadership that Long’s absence created became the monster of Incognito’s bullying. Long was the unquestioned captain…
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Fort Lauderdale Police Have Known Beach Bouncers Were “Heavy Handed” For Years — And Nothing Changed
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department, which recently came under scrutiny when a New Times investigation exposed how its loose off-duty detail policy has abetted bouncer violence at beach bars, has known security personnel at such establishments are too aggressive since at least 2010, according to an internal affairs investigation obtained…
Heat vs. Bucks: LeBron Is Lord of the Rings; 20 Tweets That Tell the Story
Entering Tuesday night’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks, LeBron James made it clear that all this losing stuff isn’t cute to him anymore, and he politely requests that his teammates help cut that shit out. “We’ve been playing defensively like sh–, no doubt about it. I’m frustrated right now. We’re…
Libertarian Columnist Wonders if Jonathan Martin Is Gay; Blames Obama
Well, we’ve found it. The worst professionally written piece about the Dolphins’ Richie Incognito mess has been identified. Congratulations to the OC Register’s “libertarian humorist” Ron Hart for penning a column that is all at once racist, sexist, completely stupid, and manages to both wonder if Jonathan Martin is gay…
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305 Photo of the Day: Northern Skyline
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The Best Comedian Tweets on the Richie Incognito Scandal
The Richie Incognito scandal is in that weird place where we understand that it’s pretty serious but also so over-the-top in some weird sports soap opera-style that sometimes you can’t help but laugh. So with the help of Witstream, we rounded up the best tweets about the scandal from professional…
Miami Herald Offers Buyouts to Critics, Columnists and More
The Miami Herald has racked up three Pulitzers for commentary and another three for photography in its history, but the Doral-based paper is looking to shed some fat in both departments. According to a memo obtained by Romenesko and Random Pixels, the paper announced to staff this morning that they’re…
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Anti-Obamacare Group Throws Creepy, Boozy UM Tailgate Seeking Millennials’ Support
A cavalcade of Hummers and F-150s headed down to the University of Miami on Saturday. They contained scantily clad female models bearing bullhorns, beer pong tables and boxes of pizza. Bros instantly materialized, got drunk and danced to the sounds of DJ Joey. And because no tailgate would be complete…
Pissed Off Port of Miami Valets Dump Keys in a Giant Pile and Let Drivers Fend For Themselves
Dozens of cruise ship passengers got off their ocean jaunts all tanned and rested only to experience a slice of pure parking hell Miami style. Passengers who had left their cars in city parking lot 58 found no signs of valets and just a big pile of keys dumped on…
Dominican Racism: Nation To Eject Thousands of Lifelong Residents
In Santo Domingo, 20 young people gather in the courtyard of Centro Bonó, a Catholic NGO defending the rights of immigrants in the Dominican Republic. Most are Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian origin. The meeting is led by 27 year old Ana Maria Belique . Most of these young people…
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Dolphins Disintegrate Into Fine Dust Against Bucs 22-19
HO.LY.SHIT.WE.ARE.BAAAAAD. The Dolphins were poised to have some awesome ‘The Natural’ moment after 11 days of bullying accusations, litigation, he-said-she-said and lots of ‘splaining by Philbin, Tannehill, Incognito, Ross (no Ireland, though!). Instead, the team did that typical Dolphins thing where they had a lead late in the game and…
Mysterious Email Blasts Miami Beach Commission Candidate For Living in Sin
Last Tuesday, Miami Beach voters overwhelming voted in favor a symbolic vote for medical marijuana and a real vote to approve a queer- and trans-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance. It’s not exactly conservative-land. So it seems strange that a mysterious e-mail went out recently attacking commission candidate Michael Grieco for *gasp* living…
305 Photo of the Day: Gated
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Florida Teen Girl Pulled Over for DUI in Just Bra and Panties
Intoxicated teen girls running wild in Florida in next to nothing isn’t just the plot to Spring Breakers. Kristen Forester, 18, was pulled over in Fort Pierce last month, and the officer found that the only thing she was wearing beside a seatbelt was a bra and panties…
Move Over Pythons, Invasive Meat-Eating Lizards Are the Everglades’ New Pest
While Burmese pythons have gotten all the attention, the Everglades now faces a threat from another foreign reptile menace: Argentine tegu lizards. When scientists first detected their presence in the swamp back in 2008, they thought they had a good chance to eradicate them, but it’s too late now. Much…
Reports: Joe Philbin and Jeff Ireland Likely to Be Fired
According to several reports, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is all but ready to hand both general manager Jeff Ireland and head coach Joe Philbin pink slips by the end of the season in the wake of the Richie Incognito controversy. The only hope the two have of keeping their…
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Dolphins-Bucs Tonight: Implosion, Destruction, or Mike Wallace as Savior
It seems like ages ago but before the Incognito-Martin story went all Chernobyl, the Dolphins beat a good Bengals team on a Thursday night game that featured only the 3rd overtime walk-off safety in NFL history. The win came in dramatic fashion, considering the Dolphins were up by 17 points…