When police caught him amidst a petty crime spree in a casino parking lot yesterday, Obrian Oakley decided to run. As he peeled away from deputies in his Infiniti, what would have been a couple misdemeanor theft charges turned into two counts of first-degree murder against the 26-year-old from Miami…
The power is off. Your home is lit by candles. You’re drunk from the hurricane party. What else is there to do, quite frankly?So we’re not exactly surprised that 27 percent of Miamians have gotten it on in the midst of a hurricanes. Actually, we’re surprised the percentage isn’t higher…
UPDATE: An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that Luther Campbell had been denied his certification to coach high school football; in a telephone conversation with Uncle Luke, we misunderstood the result of the state’s appeal. He will in fact be allowed to coach. Hooray! We do apologize for…
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The Dolphins lost the “suck for Luck” contest, and didn’t even come close to winning the Peyton Manning, but boy they sure did come in first place in the David Gerrard invitational. And, that might not be the worst thing ever. Sports Illustrated writer Peter King claims that Gerrard is looking…
Somehow Republicans were able to keep a straight face today by declaring that bringing up their own candidate’s history of drunken arrests was “disappointing” and then bringing up a Democrat’s son drunken arrests.Connie Mack IV, your Republican nominee for Senate, had a habit of drunken shenanigans, occasionally ending in arrest,…
Inept robber Alejandro Carlson found out the hard way that a whole lot of Floridians are packing heat.After getting shot during a botched robbery, he ran into the neighboring home of a 68-year-old couple only to find himself held at gunpoint until police arrived…
The University of Miami may be at the center of the Nevin Shapiro scandal, but it’s not the only school that has had to deal with the fallout. That’s because several coaches and staffers have since moved on to other programs.Today, University of Florida wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator…
A short drive through Miami often reveals there’s a big difference between the haves and the have-nots in this town. One minute you’re surrounding by luxury high rises and fancy restaurants, the next you’re in the middle of run-down homes and check cashing stores.So it’s no surprise that the Miami…
In a case that’s likely to follow incumbent County Mayor Carlos Gimenez and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle right up to Election Day, a Hialeah boletera — or absentee ballot broker — has been arrested and charged with illegally collecting ballots. Critics have long charged that boleteras illegally swing elections…
Earlier today, someone hacked into the Facebook accounts of several Major League Baseball teams and the Marlins were not spared. For a brief moment, the Marlins Facebook page promised the first 10,000 fans in attendance at the next game that they’d receive a free “fighting pit bull.” Updated…
This is awkward information for fans of both the Miami Heat and the Miami Hurricanes.Turns out Urban Meyer, now head coach of Ohio State and formerly the head coach of the Florida Gators and wide receivers coach at Notre Dame, once offered LeBron James a scholarship to play football for…
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According to voters in the just-released preseason Coaches Poll, the University of Miami Hurricanes are about on the same level as the Florida Atlantic University Owls: Neither team received a single vote in the poll. Every other Division I FBS team in Florida did, though. Even Florida International University received…
Chad Ochocinco Johnson promised he’d go back to his old loudmouthed, impulsive ways when he became a Dolphin, and he’s keeping that promise.Johnson says that if he doesn’t make the Dolphins’ final squad, he’ll consider a career in porn.Oh, and he also said he’s been hanging out with Kiss frontman Gene…
David Martin Escamillo, the man arrested this week for causing a panic during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises at the Regal cinema in South Beach, says he never intended to scare his fellow movie goers and was just angry at a man who was texting too much during…
Florida’s most moderate former Republican has endorsed Florida’s most moderate Democrat, Bill Nelson, over his Republican challenger, Connie Mack IV, in a move that should surprise no one but is sure to have people talking. Since leaving the Republican Party during his own bid for Senate, Crist has more and…
Three girlfriends from New Jersey flew to Miami for the Fourth of July weekend. Somehow two of them ended up being charged with the beating and bizarre kidnapping of the other. Unfortunately, for them, what happens in Miami doesn’t necessarily stay in Miami…
We’d like to think that somewhere up in heaven, South American liberator Simon Bolivar is looking down at Hugo Chavez and thinking, “I really need to get a restraining order against this guy.”Chavez has spent the last week taking his Bolivar-stalking to new levels of creepiness. First, he unveiled a…
Marco Rubio has been studying the American tax code, and at last he’s discovered the scourge that’s been dragging down the U.S. economy. No, it’s not Obama’s higher taxes on the top-one percent, and it’s not Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.It’s Uncle Sam’s tax on Olympic medalists, who, yeah,…
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