Many cops have side jobs. Some work security at nightclubs. Others are in the National Guard. Sgt. Nicholas Kealoha programs people’s brains. Kealoha is an 11-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Police Department. He is also the self-appointed director of what he calls the International Institute for Brain Research. And on…
Ryan Braun has reportedly been suspended for the rest of the season over his connection to Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that New Times first reported was tied to selling performance-enhancing drugs to Major League Baseball players. ESPN’s T.J. Quinn reports that Braun will not fight the suspension and…
Last week, Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, made a bizarre public protest outside a Chicago courthouse during which she claimed to be living on the streets. Today, Wade released a statement pointing out he pays her $25,000 a month…
The U.S. Department of Justice officially filed a lawsuit today against the State of Florida for its “deliberate indifference to the suffering” of disabled children and violating the Americans with Disabilities act. The DOJ first warned Florida about the matter two years ago, but has decided Rick Scott’s government, including…
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Is this the year the Miami Hurricanes finally make it to their first ACC championship game? The media seems to think so. During the Atlantic Coast Conference’s media kickoff day, the assembled sports reporters picked the Hurricanes to win the Coastal division in a poll…
George Zimmerman has been in relative hiding since he was handed a not guilty verdict nine days ago, but ABC News reports the world’s most controversial self-appointed neighborhood watchman was spotted last week pulling a family from a flipped SUV on I-4 in Sanford…
A sleepy beach in the Florida Keys had more cocaine on in this weekend then your average South Beach nightclub. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer found twenty pounds of the white stuff sitting on the shores of Long Key State Park on Friday…
Cornerback Brent Grimes will make his debut with the Dolphins this season, but if you didn’t know who he was before, you’ll probably forever know him now as the guy who got a picture of a blowjob frosted on his 30th-birthday cake…
Yesterday the Orlando Sentinel wrote an explosive story about how a soccer team from Miami had allegedly instigated a vicious on-field brawl during a tournament at Disney World. “Parents who witnessed the Saturday afternoon altercation painted a particularly vivid picture of parents and players from a Miami team storming the…
If revenge is a dish best served cold, Aleric “AJ” Constantin has just the recipe for Miami cops. The 26-year-old chef, who made headlines at last month’s Critical Mass when police arrested him for selling ice cream without a license, plans to debut a new flavor around town next month:…
Ever since the Los Angeles Dodgers called him up to the big leagues in June, rookie outfielder Yasiel Puig has been absolutely destroying pitchers. The Cuban defector has already swatted eight home runs and nearly made the All-Star team as a write-in candidate. But a Cuban man now says Puig’s…
Lower-income areas are set to bear the brunt of Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s recommendation to close 22 libraries and ax six fire trucks to fix a budget deficit. Those libraries are disproportionately in poor neighborhoods, and the six fire stations set to lose a truck include Florida City and Goulds –…
Hundreds of protestors marched through downtown Miami on Saturday afternoon as part of a nationwide vigil for local teenager Trayvon Martin, one week after his killer, George Zimmerman, was found not guilty of murdering him. Miami’s rally, which featured a speech from Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, brought about 200 to…
Earlier this morning, FIU football players went to Crandon Park Beach, perhaps Miami’s most family friendly stretch of sand, for a workout and team barbecue. Apparently while showering under the public open-air shower heads, a few of the players decided to get butt naked. FIU head coach Ron Turner has…
In their latest doomed effort to goose ticket sales the Miami Marlins will be hosting a “Legend of Wrestling Night” on August 24. Sixteen former professional wrestlers will be on hand for you to, I don’t know, look at I guess according to Biz of Baseball. There will be three…
On the one hand, we did kick out former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez in a historic recall election, so at the very least maybe we should let him live his post-public life in peace however he sees fit. On the other hand, the former mayor of the seventh biggest county…
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Yesterday’s rainfall was not normal. In fact, Miami Beach got so much rain yesterday that it shattered three separate records: the most rainfall for July 18th in recorded weather history, the most rainfall for any single day in July ever, and helped push the month to the wettest July on…
Miami-Dade Police started investigating a break-in and robbery last night at a home in Kendall, but it turns out the home the burglars were targeting was actually a grow house. Police found 21 marijuana plants valued at around $50,000 inside…
When the most important verdict in his state’s recent history came down, Gov. Rick Scott was a thousand miles away in New York. He didn’t exactly rush back to Tallahassee to face protestors upset at George Zimmerman’s acquittal, finally returning to the capital on Tuesday, but quickly decamping for the…
Without search engine LexisNexis at their fingertips, lawyers would have to walk to their local law libraries and pull down those impressive monochromatic tomes used to decorate the walls in personal injury firms’ TV ads. Legal life, in other words, would grind to a halt without services like Lexis. But…
