Most days, Juana Reyes stays past 10 pm to pick up the half-eaten lunches and crumpled printouts left behind by bankers and traders at the Southeast Financial Center, which houses heavy hitters like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. But for the last four years, the 60-year-old Nicaragua native says she…
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Could all three of Florida’s traditional football powerhouses end up in separate conferences? News broke this weekend that Florida State University could be entertaining a move to the Big 12. That lead to some rumbling in the sports rumor-sphere that the Big 12 could also end up targeting some other…
Heat forward Chris Bosh went down with an abdominal injury during yesterday’s Eastern Conference Semi-finals Game 1 against the Indiana Pacers.And today, the Heat have announced that an MRI reveals Bosh has a strained abdominal muscle and is “out indefinitely.”…
A Florida woman alleged to have attacked a man after he refused to give her money for crack cocaine was found by police shortly after the incident. Authorities found her covered in blood, but the woman wasn’t about to let that be taken as proof that she was behind the…
The famed Florida A&M University’s Marching 100 will remain on suspension for the entirety of the 2012-13 school year. The announcement comes just a week after longtime band director Dr. Julian White announced his retirement, and months after the hazing death of member Robert Champion. Eleven band members now face…
Speculation that Marco Rubio could be the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee dates back to pretty much his first day in office as senator, and even Mitt Romney has mentioned Rubio as a possible candidate. Politico, however, reports that Senator Rubio is not being seriously considered as a potential running…
A lot happened before the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers even got their Eastern Conference semifinals going. For one thing, Pacers head coach Frank Vogel put on a fancy hat and proclaimed himself captain of the SS Douchetanic, and started inexplicably bitching about how the Heat are a bunch of…
Last Thursday, a 31-year-old named Brian J. Weiss was holding a meeting in a Hilton hotel near Kennedy International Airport when a man pulled out a .380 Baretta and shot him five times in the head. That man, Gary Zalevsky, then killed himself as four others in the room dove…
This past March, Gabriel Perez was sitting in his Cape Coral home watching the NCAA basketball tournament when the game cut to commercial. He sat chuckling at a Buffalo Wild Wings ad.You remember the one: A birthday telegram goes horribly wrong when a dweeby guy with the unfortunately unisex name…
Ah, baseball. The nostalgic green of the outfield grass. The evocative crack of bat hitting ball. The zeal of litigation and the slow slog of civil justice. George Will say whaa?! Three prominent local figures in youth baseball are embroiled in an intriguing lawsuit filed earlier this month. Miami attorney…
On a muggy autumn afternoon, 400 of Miami Beach’s most prominent names packed into a luxury Loews Hotel ballroom. As waiters hoisted trays of food, WSVN’s Belkys Nerey took the stage and introduced a big-screen video. With a cinematic splash and to copious applause, billionaire Norman Braman, Miami Beach Mayor…
Detractors could point to the saga of Jacory Harris as a prime example of why prospective players shouldn’t sign with the Miami Hurricanes. At one point he was a buzzed about potential superstar in the making. No one blinked an eye when terms like “Heisman dark horse” and “Future NFL QB”…
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There are worse things for politicians to be than boring moderates, sure, but Bill Nelson is a boring moderate through and through. So, it’s really no surprise that his stance on gay marriage is predictably off in some vague, boring, moderate middle land…
Here is a story about capitalism and humanity at its most vile and disgusting. Orlando news station WKMG discovered that Trayvon Martin gun range targets are for sale. They tracked down the unidentified seller who said, “My main motivation was to make money off the controversy.” Excuse us while we…
Yesterday’s bizarre and tragic shooting on the Florida Turnpike left two officers wounded, and Miami Marlins catcher Brett Hayes happened to be on the road just as the incident unfolded.”Sitting in traffic on the turnpike and a man with a gun just walked by our car … Not good,” he…
There’s annoying roommate behavior: playing music too loudly, never doing the dishes, leaving the toilet seat up. Then there’s creepy roommate behavior: secretly recording you having sex with a hidden webcam installed in your room.Edward Raymond Mathis is a creepy roommate…
It’s been one month since Marlins skipper Ozzie Guillen infamously muttered his undying love for Fidel Castro. And even though Guillen apologized and the Marlins say the matter is done and dusted, the incident apparently remains pretty raw for the Marlins manager. Earlier this week, Guillen cussed out a journalist just…
Back when the Bush administration was using “enhanced interrogation techniques” on suspected terrorists — also known as “torture” to most of the West — the most hotly debated trick was waterboarding. That’s the one where you make a prisoner think he’s drowning by slowly pouring water over his face while…
You might have missed it if you were watching the game on television last night, but the arena announcer at the AAA got in a pretty A+ zinger when Amar’e Stoudemire fouled out of last night’s game.”He has been extinguished from the game,” shouted announcer Michael Baiamonte…
We already know what Mitt Romney thinks of gays. They should not be allowed to marry, and their long hair should be forcefully cut by prep school bullies such as himself. What does Ol’ Mittens think of gun rights? According to his website, it’s quite contradictory: As president, Mitt will…
