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Javier Manjarres: This shark eats politicians
Javier Manjarres: This shark eats politicians
FDLE Wanted to Arrest Doral Chief Ricardo Gomez, But Prosecutors Exonerated Him UPDATE
Starting this past April, Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators began looking into a half dozen allegations lodged against Doral Police Chief Ricardo Gomez, from charges of bid fixing to shady hires to illegally spending city cash on a lavish swearing-in ceremony. By this fall, the FDLE was sure enough…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Comes Out Against SOPA, Too
Miami-area congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has finally made her position on SOPA clear: she’s against it. Unlike Marco Rubio, who changed his position on SOPA’s Senate companion, PIPA, earlier today, Ros-Lehtinen had never been a co-sponsor of the bill…
Don Bartling of Miami Arrested for Having Possibly Thousands of Child Porn Movies on His Computer
Don Bartling, a 54-year-old Miami resident and a student at Florida International University, has been arrested on charges of downloading and sharing child pornography. Bartling, according to a criminal complaint, told officials that he started downloading child pornography sometime in the past three to five years, and said that he…
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Miami Workers Are the Happiest Workers in America According to Some Sort of Study
While it may be increasingly difficult to actually secure employment in Miami, those of us who have seem to love our job. That’s according to a new study by CareerBliss.com that analyzed more than 43,000 employee reviews across the country. It’s actually the second year in a row that Miami…
305 Photo of the Day: Kermit Takes Miami
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Miami-Dade Firefighter Avoids Jail Time for Sexting 17-Year-Old Boy Who Later Turned Up Dead
Ulises Rodriguez, a 36-year-old former Miami-Dade firefighter, will avoid jail time for allegedly sending sexually explicit text messages and pictures to a 17-year-old boy. The boy later turned up dead, though his cause of death has not yet been made known, and Rodriguez played no part in the death. Rodriguez…
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Marco Rubio Drops His Support of Online Piracy Bill on Day of Wikipedia Blackout
Maybe Marco Rubio is addicted to late-night Wikipedia binges. You know, the type where you go to look up the director of whatever movie you’re absentmindedly watching on cable and then somehow, an hour later, end up reading about the indigenous bird species of Alabama. Because this morning, the Republican…
Rape Porn Continued As Prosecutors Bungled Case Against Ex-Cop Lavont Flanders
Last December, a federal jury convicted Lavont Flanders Jr. and Emerson Callum on 32 combined counts of fraud and sex trafficking.It was a gut-wrenching crime. Prosecutors proved that Flanders, an ex-cop, had duped and drugged women in order for Callum — a Jamaican porn star performing under the name “Jah-T”…
PGA Golfer Steven Thomas Arrested in Florida Online Child Sex Sting
Steven Thomas thought he was about to hit a perverted hole in one when he presumed he was arranging a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl via her mother through the Internet. Instead he wound up in an online-sting sand trap. Thomas, a pro golfer who has played at several…
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Wikipedia Is Down Today: Don’t Panic, We Have Your Alternatives
Pity the University of Miami freshman who picked this morning to crap out a research paper, and the Miami Herald journalist trying to write about whichever moderately famous person dies today. Wikipedia has gone dark! The site is protesting the SOPA legislation that most sane people realize would shackle the…
Escaped Prisoner Caught Behind Burger King During Hialeah Manhunt
Juan Preval could smell freedom, or at least freedom fries.The 28-year-old escaped prisoner was caught hiding in a drainage canal behind a Burger King yesterday. His discovery ended a 90 minute manhunt that saw police reroute traffic along the Gratigny Parkway and Red Road.Preval was roughly two-thirds the way through…
Dez Bryant Detained After Fight With “Famous Rapper” at Club LIV UPDATE
Scratch another notch onto the Fontainebleau, the high-rollin’ hotel where Gloria James (allegedly) slapped a valet and where Lil Wayne lost his 305 cred by partying with the Dallas Mavericks after they topped the Heat in the NBA Finals last year. The latest celebrity athlete embroiled in headlines tied to…
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LeBron Goes Off, Heat Win, All is Well
It took three games and a half of shitty basketball, but the Miami Heat finally got their mojo working in the second half of last night’s game, and eventually blew away the visiting San Antonio Spurs 120-98.With a hobbled Dwyane Wade unable to play on his birthday, it was up…
Poll: Obama Leads Romney 62-29 in Miami Area
We know you’re tired of polls. Mitt Romney has taken a commanding lead in Florida primary polls, and will all but certainly beat his rivals. After that, Florida polls are likely to show a neck and neck battle between Romney and Obama. This Tarrance Group poll conducted for the Everglades…
NBA GM Survey: Heat Will Win Championship, LeBron Has Good Shot at MVP
It’s tough to find a group of people who know the NBA more than the league’s own group of general managers. For the tenth year in a row, NBA.com surveyed all 30 GMs to get their take on the state of the league, and 74.1 percent think the Miami Heat…
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305 Photo of the Day: Tree-flection
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Carnival’s Stock Already Down 18 Percent As Micky Arison Braces For Sell-Off UPDATE
Hopefully Carnival CEO and Miami Heat owner Micky Arison has some of his billions stashed away in some nice, safe mutual funds. Arison already lost $1.3 billion last year to shrinking stocks and after this weekend’s epic disaster by a Carnival-owned ship off Italy — which left 6 dead, 29…
David Rivera Backs Newt Gingrich, Because Allegedly Crooked Congressmen Stick Together
Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart, and former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart have all lined up in support of Mitt Romney, which left little room for Romney’s primary opponents to line up a big endorsement that would resonate in Miami’s Cuban-American community. Well, Newt Gingrich now has the support of that black…
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State Senator Cites Chris Rock Joke in Gambling Debate by Claiming Tampa is the Strip Club Capital of the World
“People do not go to South Beach to see Mickey Mouse. They just don’t,” said state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff (R-Ft. Lauderdale) yesterday during a debate on her bill that would bring casinos to South Florida. “They go there for different reasons. We have the strip club capital of the world…