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As the tale of Kiera Wilmot — the Bartow, Florida student expelled and charged with two felonies over a science project gone wrong — went viral yesterday, a wide movement to support the 16-year-old blossomed from blogs to radio shows to Change.org petitions. Best of all, though, has been a…

Holly Jacobs’ nightmare began in 2009. That’s when naked photos of the Miami PhD student first appeared online. They soon went viral, appearing on hundreds of so-called revenge porn websites along with her name, phone number, and email address. Photos and videos were even sent to her bosses. Jacobs has…

South Florida Is Ground Zero for Medicare Fraud

It’s Tuesday morning and Paul Pope’s staff is hustling around a walk-in closet in his Spanish Colonial spread in Highland Beach. A buxom 30-something with cascading brunet hair sits on the floor cradling a black-belt-fed M60 machine gun. Nearby, a stocky middle-aged man in a baggy white sports coat casually…

Five Miami Tales That Need Movie Adaptations

Norman Braman likes to think of himself as a man of the people. The billionaire famously sued the county and the Marlins in 2008 on behalf of taxpayers pissed off over the disastrous stadium deal. When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez raised property taxes two years later, Braman recalled Alvarez’s ass…

How much can you get for a donated 2005 Toyota Prius previously owned by Miami-Dade County? A cool 8,200 bucks. Talk about a steal of a deal! Too much of a steal, according to the Miami-Dade Office of the Inspector General. And now it has cost a well-respected Cuban-American human…

The last time Brenda Heist’s children saw her, she had dropped them off at school. They returned home to find dinner defrosting and the laundry half done, but mom was missing. Despite an extensive search, Heist was never found. Three years ago, Heist’s husband even petitioned to have her legally…

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Fast food really isn’t all that fast. Especially in Miami (we’ve got a great work ethic in this town, don’t you know), but apparently that pops up in other parts of the state. An attempted robbery at a Wendy’s in Longwood, Florida, was foiled after the workers took too long…

By all accounts, Kiera Wilmot’s science experiment gone wrong triggered just a tiny pop and a small amount of smoke at Bartow High School last week — but her tale is certifiably blowing up the Internet today. Thanks to Reddit and Reason, thousands of people have commented on Wilmot’s story,…

Trying to be a daredevil good Samaritan and alcohol don’t often mix. Richard Brandenburg, 49, tried to help out a woman on Miami Beach yesterday who had lost her keys in a storm drain. So he downed half a pint of white rum and jumped into the sewer…

A 34-year-old man in Tampa did not have a damn good reason for calling 911 eighty times.

Natalie Ramos was driving home from the gym early last Friday when she saw a woman on Biscayne Boulevard crying next to a dog and yelling for help. Ramos stopped and tried to calm the woman, who didn’t speak English and pantomimed a series of stabbing gestures and kicks. The…

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In case you’ve been wondering, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson is still as bizarre as ever and chronicling it all on Twitter. In his latest escapade, Johnson befriended a homeless man named “Porkchop” this weekend, gave him a makeover, and then took him out clubbing in South Beach…