I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing for Tom, the winner of a Mike’s Hard Lemonade sweepstakes for a trip to South Beach over Labor Day weekend: that he spent much of the weekend filming a commercial with a bear in a bikini, that he brought his mother, or that now…
If Fox News anchors are right (they’re not) and Barack Obama is secretly a socialist (he isn’t), the president sure is doing a pretty shitty job spreading his collectivist creed in the Sunshine State. On Friday, for instance, Florida’s Secretary of State informed the Socialist Workers Party that it would…
Florida is keeping disabled children in nursing homes and similar institutions, even though several of those children have families that want to care for them at home but don’t have the money to do so. The U.S. Department of Justice has now sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi…
It’s been a bad week for Johnny Law in the 305. The day after the FBI accused a Miami-Dade cop of getting his rocks off by pulling over women and asking about their underwear and breasts, a Miami Beach officer is under arrest this morning on eight felony counts, including…
Last night, Charlie Crist completed his nasty two-year break-up with conservatives. When he strolled onto the DNC set in Charlotte, the Republican establishment he once belonged to collectively winced. Then it watched the former Florida governor openly praise President Barack Obama.”But even as the Republican Party fought tooth and nail…
Two students at Florida’s St. Leo University decided to play a little prank, so they sprayed furniture polish on the terrazzo floor of their residence floor and hoped that someone would slip.Some one did! Hahahaha! Hilarious! Watching people fall is truly the most satisfying source of laughter ever. Let me…
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In the worst acted anti-Obama ad released, well, since this little homophobic ditty that came out earlier this week, a new National Republican Committee ad features a pretty, young woman pretending to be a dissatisfied former Obama voter who decides to “break up” with the president. Except the woman in…
ABC affiliate WPLG Local 10’s website has crossed over to the dark side. Apparently, hungry for pageviews, the station posted a slide show featuring photos from a recent Star Wars convention, complete with mocking captions like “Dateless men for as far as the eye can see.” Star Wars fans didn’t…
“Everything that happened today is actually in my dream, and I want to prove it to everybody,” 18-year-old Mark Welch of Volusia County told a 911 dispatcher.It sounds like the beginning of a reality-bending sci-fi movie, but it was actually the beginning of a kid who smoked too much synthetic…
Miami-Dade Police Officer Prabhainjana Dwivedi worked the midnight shift around Key Biscayne, Metrorail stations, and Jackson Memorial Hospital. If what the FBI says is true, woe unto any woman who ran into Dwivedi in the middle of the night. Because the cop had a bad habit of pulling over women…
Read “Hialeah Residents Claim Local Recycling Plant Is Causing Increased Rates Of Cancer”Today, the Miami-Dade County Commission will vote on a resolution on whether to investigate a potential cancer cluster in Hialeah along NW 36th Avenue. Residents have pointed fingers at nearby King Metal Recycling Plant as the reason for…
In a small farming village hidden down dirt roads among shrubs and tall grass, everyone’s sleeping, and the rain won’t stop. It’s early afternoon on a Tuesday near Rosharon, a small town south of Houston, and the downpour has canvassed the paths with deep crevices and pockmarks, making driving all…
It was 9:45 a.m. on October 11, 2009, when Juan Carlos Portieles parked his beat-up Toyota Camry on a quiet side street in Cutler Bay. Tall and heavyset, with close-cropped brown hair and traces of stubble on his jaw, the 30-year-old DJ walked several blocks to a cluster of condominiums…
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Between 1977 and 1978, John Errol Ferguson led a shocking killing spree through Miami-Dade County. A home invasion gone wrong and a rape-murder of a teenage couple left eight people dead.More than three decades later, Ferguson will die for his crimes. Gov. Rick Scott signed his death warrant this afternoon,…
In one our more irresponsible traditions, the media tends to sensationalize any random event that bears a passing resemblance to a bigger tragedy. So today, a man in a Brevard County, Florida move theater was arrested on an outstanding warrant. His hair was dyed red, and he was wearing weird…
So, just in case Mitt Romney fails to deliver, Public Policy Polling decided to jump way ahead of things and conducted a poll asking Republican voters who they’d like to see as their candidate in 2016. Surprisingly, two politicians from Florida took the top two spots: Marco Rubio and Jeb…
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