Across the Everglades, all our Western neighbors in Naples are talking about is a purported UFO sighting this week at a condo building pool. Because if advanced life forms traveled from billions of light years away, their first stop would undoubtedly be a condo building pool in Naples…
Following the death of teenager Israel Hernandez, the City of Miami Beach has called for an independent review of the case. Hernandez, 18, was caught tagging an abandoned building by police and then chased down. An officer deployed a Taser which lead to Hernandez’s death. See also: Teenager Israel Hernandez…
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Anger continues to grow over the killing of Israel Hernandez, who died Tuesday morning after a Miami Beach police cop Tasered the 18-year-old. In the last 24 hours, the cop who electrocuted Hernandez has been put on leave, while the teenager’s father has called the incident an “assassination of a…
Earlier this week the Princeton Review named, of all colleges, the University of Iowa as America’s most party happy school. While Florida State and University of Florida made the top 10, the University of Miami, once the undisputed party school champion of the world back in the ’80s, was no…
In the murder confession he published on Facebook shortly before posting a picture of his wife’s lifeless body, Derek Medina claimed his wife was punching him and he was “not going to stand anymore with the abuse.” This morning, the Miami Herald reported Medina is “likely to claim self-defense.” See…
Keep Floridians away from their fast food at your own peril. A case of cutting in line at a Tampa McDonald’s led to a knife in a man’s butt. However, because this is Florida, the person who got a knife in the butt wasn’t even the one trying to cut…
On Tuesday, Miami Beach Police Officer Jorge Mercado fired a Taser into Israel Hernandez’s chest following a chase that started with the teen getting caught tagging an abandoned McDonald’s. Hernandez died soon after Mercado used the electronic weapon, and MPBD has now put the 13-year veteran on leave while investigating…
Five hours into a flight from Moscow to Miami last week, Pavel Nesvat decided to start throwing jars of ice cream. That was only the beginning of his bizarre transatlantic rampage, which eventually included Nesvat yanking on the ears of flight attendants, whacking other passengers in the head, and strapping…
Mansfield Staniford wants to make sure the Brazilian girl is in the picture. He’s running around in the anti-fashion trifecta of socks, sneakers and shorts, obsessively pulling his thinning brown hair. Little kids dash between the legs of the business men, photographers, models and moms who are gathered at South…
Derek Medina, the South Miami man who ended his marriage and his wife’s life this morning and then posted photos of her dead body on Facebook, once wrote an e-book titled How I Saved Someone’s Life and Marriage and Family Problems Thru Communication. Medina was a prolific publisher of self-help…
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Derek Medina, 31, fatally shot his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, at their South Miami townhouse this morning and then posted a confession and a picture of her dead, bloody body slumped on their kitchen floor before he went to a police station and admitted to the murder. See also: Derek Medina,…
Steve Berke, a YouTube sensation who enjoys dabbling in Miami Beach politics, is on the prowl for kitty. But not any random alley pussy will do. Berke wants a feline with that Grumpy Cat Internet fame “IT” factor. He seeks a cat capable of spawning memes across the World Wide…
Well, we guess he’s kept his official residency in Ohio, because LeBron James is serving jury duty in Akron today. Yep, not even the NBA’s MVP can get out of jury duty…
Aereo, the cloud-based streaming service that lets your watch and record local television stations from your computer, smart phone, tablets and even your television, is headed to Miami on September 2. This is great news for people looking to kick their cable company to the curb, and bad news for…
Israel Hernandez’s last moments were panicked and painful. That’s what can be gathered from Miami Beach Police’s report about their pursuit of the 18-year-old skater and artist. Hernandez, whose nickname was “Reefa,” led cops on a chase through several blocks of North Beach, frantically scrambling over fences and falling onto…
A small dead shark was found riding a subway car in New York City this week. The New York Post literally began its story with the cliche “Only in New York.” Seriously. That was the lead. Umm, dead sharks riding public rail transit is like soooooo four years ago…
Yesterday, Riptide broke the story of 18-year-old skateboarder Israel Hernandez getting fatally Tasered by Miami Beach cops for tagging an abandoned building. Afterward, our article was flooded with more than 500 comments. Many expressed sadness. Others, outrage. But some labeled Hernandez a “vandal” who “got what he deserved.” So we…
On a sunny afternoon, a rotund, tall man named Andre Brown had just stepped out of his Boca Raton apartment when a bronze-haired stranger approached him wearing a black suit, leather gloves, and an expression stitched with alarm. “Are you who I’m supposed to talk to?” the man asked in…
The man’s eyes are wide with fury as he pounds the hood of the Tremont Towing truck that’s hauling his gun-metal Lexus from the plaza at 15th Street and Alton Road in South Beach. The truck stops, and driver Robert Ashenoff Jr. slowly climbs out. He dwarfs the angry Lexus…
It began with a simple email last November. The subject was “Follow up to Ramirez story in 2009,” and the sender, who didn’t give his name, said only that he had “some major new developments to share” regarding a three-year-old New Times piece about star slugger Manny Ramirez. Fast-forward nine…
