It was Rihanna, one of our greatest and most poetic songbirds, who once sang, “Please don’t stop the, please don’t stop the, please don’t stop the music.”A 17-year-old girl in Vero Beach didn’t get the message and ended up getting bit in the leg by her drunk mother…
What are you doing in this house, school bus? School buses don’t belong in houses. Go back on the street where you belong, school bus.Oh, it was all that asshole SUV’s fault? You really are a jerk, SUV. Thankfully, you didn’t cause any serious injuries to humans, SUV. Updated. …
Cheney Mason, the lawyer who will forever be known as the guy who got Casey Anthony off charges of killing her daughter, has decided to open his mouth about the Trayvon Martin case. His remarks were not only critical of Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey, but also of Trayvon Martin’s…
You always have to watch your tongue when you’re on the air; otherwise you could end up accusing your co-anchor of having incestuous relationships with her kids. That’s what WSVN’s Today in South Florida host Diana Diaz recently did when she flubbed an ad-libbed line about cohost Christine Cruz…
If Miami’s Cuban community had a patron saint, it was surely Agustín Román, who fled Castro with a boatload of other priests and then, as America’s first Cuban-born bishop, made such a political mark that current Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski compared him to Felix Varela.Román was found dead of a…
Rayner Washington was born with the inability to straighten his pinkie — a minor condition that never caused him much trouble. At least until Washington began working at South Florida-based Saveology, a deal-of-the-day website launched last June. In a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington alleges the…
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George Zimmerman will finally be charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, according to a report from the Washington Post. The charges will be announced in a news conference later this afternoon. However, it’s not clear what charges Zimmerman will face.Update at 6:07 p.m.: While emphasizing that she based…
Florida’s 2012 Senate election is shaping up to be as ridiculous as ever. Connie Mack IV, whom you might remember has been characterized by his Republican opponents as “the Charlie Sheen of Florida Politics,” released a web ad today linking incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson to coked-up monkeys. …
Well, at least some people think Isiah Thomas was a good basketball coach.The former NBA All-Star and failed New York Knicks coach last week was fired as head coach of Florida International University’s men’s basketball team. His players staged a walkout during an awards banquet, and now some of them want…
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Seven Miami Beach employees and a Miami-Dade cop found themselves hit with public corruption charges today in two separate cases. In the first, code compliance officers and firefighters allegedly accepted cash payoffs from South Beach nightclubs to ignore code issues that might have closed the establishments.In the second, a firefighter…
Attacked from across the political spectrum for exaggerating their “armed patrols” in Sanford, neo-Nazis have fired back — with pictures of two people holding a Nazi flag in the central Florida town.No guns. Virtually no proof to back up their claims there are “ten to 20 people” in the area…
If there’s perhaps one thing the Trayvon Martin case has taught us, it’s that we should all wait until more facts come to light before we make any absolute judgment. This is at least what a lot of my friends on the right have been telling me. Of course, now…
Anyone familiar with Miami wasn’t surprised that Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen’s comments about Fidel Castro set off a fire storm. But certain folks in the sports world were off on the sidelines scratching their heads or muttering things about how baseball managers aren’t diplomats. Some are even defending Guillen. That…
Apparently the spirit of Sen. Joseph McCarthy lives on in South Florida Rep. Allen West. While President Barack Obama was speaking yesterday in Boca Raton, West spoke to supporters in nearby Palm City and said he’s heard that up to 80 of the 190 Democratic members of Congress are actually…
LeBron James scored a game-high 36 points last night, while the rest of the Miami Heat stood and watched as the Boston Celtics shot 60 percent from the floor in yet another listless-shit-the-bed-let’s-all-go-outside-and-punt-a-litter-of-kittens-loss by the Heat.Rajon Rondo once again had his way against the Heat defense, dishing out 18 assists…
For months, anyone writing about the Marlins’ new ballpark has had to mention the catastrophe sure to ensue whenever 37,000 fans descend on Little Havana’s tiny side streets, only to find that Miami’s finest civil engineers included only 5,000 new parking spots. But how bad would it really be? There was only…
