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…
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About twice a year the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County team up to remind everyone not to shoot their guns into the air during holidays that include fireworks displays. Every time it gets a little bit more depressing to write about, because, really, have we not all learned yet…
Last year, the percentage of seats filled at Sun Life Stadium for Dolphins games was the second lowest in the NFL. The team still managed to get around the league’s blackout rule, which requires 100 percent of tickets to be sold before the game could be broadcast on local television,…
See also “Four Miami Pimps Arrested For Luring Foster Care Children Into Prostitution.”Though no formal charges had yet been filed against Florida Department of Children and Families worker Daniel LaCroix, the 46-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for trying to flee the country after his name came up in another…
See also “Cuban American Gymnast Begins Quest for Olympic Glory” and “Miami’s Olympic Gymnastic Gets Second At VISA Championship.”On Saturday, Miami native Danell Leyva took first place at the Olympic gymnastic trials in San Jose, California. That makes him the first Cuban-American to represent Team USA, which is expected to…
In a matter of seconds, the truck bore down on Ken Knight and his friends.It was around 8:30 Saturday night, and Knight was standing outside Jumbo’s Restaurant in Liberty City chatting with two longtime regulars, Wilton Harris and Al Jo Hamlin. Harris, a reverend at St. Barnabas William Church, was…
People love a good story. It’s why when Rudy Eugene ate Ronald Poppo’s face beneath the MacArthur Causeway on May 26, the whole world latched onto one cop’s careless explanation: Bath salts drove Eugene insane.Cue public panic. In Miami, media blamed the mysterious compound — often called synthetic cocaine –…
Last Thursday, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tore off his black robe to reveal a dashiki and bongos. At least, that’s how conservatives are portraying the George W. Bush-appointed judge’s tie-breaking decision to rule President Barack Obama’s health-care mandate constitutional. The upshot: Young folks will have to pay for health…
See also “Obamacare Is American As Apple Pie and Free Speech” and “Obamacare Ruled Constitutional by Supreme Court; Sorry, Pam Bondi.”This is nothing even close to Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) erupting into shrieks of joy upon learning of false reports that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act was…
An 11-year-old girl visiting from New York died on Wednesday in Orlando after being electrocuted while trying to fetch a ball from a pond at a resort’s putt-putt golf course.Ashton Jojo was visiting Orange Lake Resort, just a few miles west of the Disney World parks, with her family from…
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Miami Beach has had it with this mother fucking snake in this mother fucking post office.Yes, a snake crawling around light fixtures has caused the retail area of a Miami Beach post office to remain closed since yesterday…
In a perfect world, the Team USA Olympics basketball squad would have just been some super version of the Miami Heat. In reality, this year LeBron James will be the only Heat member to travel to London. A day after Dwyane Wade announced he’d forgo the games to get surgery,…
Super Bowl champs go to Disney World, but apparently NBA Champs go to Taco Bell.Chris Bosh was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, and admitted that his first stop after winning his first ring was the drive through of the Taco Bell. He did however end up at LIV with…
If you’re neighbor yells at you, “When I get done taking a shit, I’m going to kick your fucking ass,” maybe it’s time to find a new neighborhood.Of course, this started in a Florida neighborhood, and the argument started when one man took exception to the other calling his own…
While the Miami Heat paraded down Biscayne Boulevard on Monday, hoisting their trophy from the top of double-decker buses, all Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen could do was watch. He’d been there before. Once as a member of the coaching staff of the 2003 Marlins, and again as the manager of…
Read the incredible story of how Eligio Cedeño cheated death and Chávez’s security forces to flee Venezuela and start a second life in Miami.Eligio Cedeño finally got his day in court — or as close to it as he can get while Hugo Chávez is still alive. The Venezuelan banker…
