George Zimmerman could find himself out on bail once again, if he can make his new $1 million bond. After being arrested on charges of second-degree murder for the death of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin, the Sanford, Florida man was released in April on $150,000 bail. That bail was…
It wasn’t a happy Fourth of July for the the Pilgrim Evangelical Church in North Miami. The place of worship caught fire and was practically gutted by fire yesterday, and kids playing with fireworks on the church’s roof might be to blame…
There are a lot of reasons why you might tote your BB gun to the neighborhood 7-Eleven and demand all the cash in the drawer — financial desperation, serious drunkenness, Big Gulp hatred. Though none of those is a good excuse per se, they’re certainly better than James Seehaus’s reasoning.The 25-year-old told…
To the rest of the world, everything in Miami-Dade County is known as simply “Miami,” but the actual City of Miami is one of the smallest main municipalities of a major American metro area by both size and population. That’s because historically the area has a flair for incorporating new…
A Miami woman is suing airport luggage cart company Smarte Carte after a bizarre and bloody accident at Miami International Airport. It was the day before Thanksgiving of 2009. Fidelina Cordero was traveling to see family when she spotted a Smarte Carte kiosk promising to “maximize the experience of travelers…
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This Fourth of July, a collection of America’s most race-baiting off-their-meds pizza-gropey prominent right-wingers will beam from Las Vegas the sure-to-be-epic “Defeat Barack Obama Telethon.” Think “We Are the World, but without all the talk about saving Africa, and a whole lot of talk about how our president is from…
The fireworks on the center table were kids’ stuff, I was told. If I really wanted something with some power, I had to get the military-grade equipment. It was the afternoon before Independence Day, and my goal was simple: Find the loudest, biggest, most impressive firework I could (semi) legally…
The Dolphins’ Chad Ochocino may be a bit of an oddball, but you can’t say his heart isn’t in the right place. After receiving a Twitter message from a fan in Ohio who had recently lost her husband of 30 years, the wide receiver decided to invite her to his…
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Enemas are decidedly something no one should buy secondhand, yet customers at a Jacksonville CVS might have done just that unknowingly. Employees at the store caught a man who repeatedly returned used boxes of enemas. The probe, no pun intended, is now being led by the federal Food and Drug…
Another month, another one of Rick Scott’s controversial laws struck down by a federal court. This time around it’s a strange NRA-backed provision that banned doctors from asking patients about owning a gun. A Miami-based federal judge had already placed an injunction on the law, and last week struck it…
Are you ready to see the Celtics’ Ray Allen in a Heat jersey? There’s been mutterings that he may be interested in jumping from one Eastern Conference powerhouse to another for weeks, but now the Associated Press is reporting that Allen will visit with the Heat on Thursday…
How hot is it this week in Florida? So f’ing hot that sweat-crazed home owners are holding their air conditioning repairmen at gunpoint until they get the damn things working again. At least that’s what police say happened up near Daytona Beach, when a 54-year-old man held a repairman hostage…
Have you been driving through downtown Miami lately, searching in vain for a parking spot that won’t cost you a hundred dollars for four hours, only to find yourself staring up through your windshield and thinking to yourself, “Are there a lot of new skyscrapers, or is it just me,”…
Awww, you had a pretty rough day, huh? Your boss didn’t notice how hard you worked on those cold calls? The copy machine kept printing sideways? Starbucks messed up your Grande Frappuccino? Honestly, Carlos Torres doesn’t really want to hear it. No matter how messed-up your shift was, it wasn’t…
The Downtown Miami Charter School is being sued by a mother of a 7-year-old boy who claims her son was repeatedly harassed and sexually assaulted by an older schoolmate. The mother claims that harassment and molestation got so bad the boy attempted to commit suicide, while the school did nothing…
