Some criminals are just dumb. Others have incredibly bad luck. Thirty-three-year-old Nathaniel Coleman of Immokalee, Florida is the latter. He pulled off what seemed like a successful home robbery and made off with thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, but then made the cosmically doomed accident of trying to pawn…
One of the largest pharmacy chains in the state has decided to fight Florida’s prescription pill abuse epidemic head on. CVS Pharmacy sent out an email to certain Florida doctors this week to inform them that they will no longer fill any pain pill prescriptions they write. Authorities recently have…
It’s been a rough week for American Airlines. Not only did the company file for bankruptcy protection, but a widow is claiming her husband died sweaty after eating the airplane chicken. According to the suit, Miamian Othon Cortes and his wife Raquel were on a flight from Barcelona to New…
Florida’s Republican voters are making a firm stand for the conservative, pro-family values that have defined their party for decades by fleeing en masse from Herman Cain after multiple sexual harassment charges and new allegations that he carried on a 14-year affair.Yessir, there’s no place in the GOP for that…
Calling Florida the “Sunshine State” might seem like a cruel joke after having almost all its major cities ranked by Men’s Health magazine as some of the saddest cities in America.It’s one thing to have a city as part of this dreaded list, but to include Miami, Tampa, St. Pete…
New Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen hasn’t been in town for that long, but is it possible he’s been looking through past Miami New Times covers for photo shoots? He’s pictured on the cover of the newest edition of ESPN The Magazine in a full on kiss with his pet…
The members of the ’72 Miami Dolphins haven’t gotten a chance yet to pop champagne, as the Green Bay Packers have remained undefeated with little signs of slowing down. Could Perfectville soon have a population of two?These are dark days in Dolphinland, as they have been for much of the…
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After being convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing a classmate during school at Coral Gables High School, Andy Rodriguez, 19, has avoided life in prison, but was sentenced to 40 years in jail this morning. Following his release, at the age of 59 if he serves his full term, he…
Where will the one percent be this week? Glugging down free champagne and writing checks for million dollar art works during Art Basel Miami Beach, of course. Naturally, rumors of the 99 percenters staging an Occupy Wall Street related protest at the ritzy art fair are swirling, and ABMB is…
With the exact makeup of NBA’s post-lock out rosters unknown, making any super informed predictions about the upcoming abbreviated season is sort of a shot in the dark. Though, with Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh on the Heat, picking them to win the NBA championship is likely your…
Oneal Ron Morris, the amateur plastic surgeon who’s alleged to have performed bizarre procedures on numerous patients, including injecting a mixture including fix-a-flat tire repair material in the behind of one victim, bonded out of jail yesterday on the same day that one of her alleged victims went public. Rajee…
Marco Rubio may be South Florida’s star Cuban-American politician, but he’s not endorsing anyone in the presidential primary. So, the Republican endorsement prize in these parts is, as it’s been for quite some time, picking up the backing of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and retired Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Mitt Romney…
Cleveland-raised Esquire scribe Scott Raab’s LeBron James-bashing book, The Whore of Akron– which at one point wishes a career-ending injury upon the basketball superstar– got the author’s media credentials revoked from Miami Heat home games. It also earned him an inbox full of threats from South Floridians. Now, Raab believes,…
Hugo Chavez has a new plan to save Venezuela’s teetering national economy and it’s, uh, shipping giant mountains of gold into Venezuela amid a procession of tanks so he can end the “dictatorship of the U.S. dollar” and possibly “offer President Obama a loan.”So how did his grateful people react?…
Stripteases, sexual favors, booze, porn mags, and fat stacks of cash would be run-of-the-mill in many Miami strip clubs. But at downtown’s maximum security Federal Detention Center?Multiple attorneys interviewed by Riptide say the FDC visitor rooms have been taken over by South American pole dancers posing as paralegals for wealthy…
Faced with up to two years of underwater blasting that they say will forever scar Biscayne Bay, local environmentalists played their last card yesterday to stop the Port of Miami “Deep Dredge” project: They sued.Now a judge will determine whether the Florida Department of Environmental Protection followed proper procedures to…
Enrique Gomez de Molina’s sculptures are to die for. Literally.The Miami-based artist was charged today with illegally smuggling exotic animal parts — including birds of paradise and the world’s cutest animal, a slow loris — into Florida from Indonesia. Then he stitched, glued, and stuffed the parts together into Frankenstein’s…
Say good bye to Mike Miller Heat fans. He’ll likely be the team’s biggest casualty following the new deal reached between players and owners. Miller made headlines earlier this month by putting his South Florida home on the market, and it’s looking like that wasn’t such hasty move. …
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Just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Dade Police have taken Jorge Gonzalez, an alleged art thief, out of the galleries and into the slammer. Police believe more of Gonzalez’s victims may be out there, however, and that the total amount of his fraud and theft could have…
“Take your child to work day” is not recommended for prostitutes. Thirty-year-old Leah Wiley of Volusia County found that out the hard way. Wiley was allegedly paid to have sex with a man, 23-year-old Carlos Rivera, at a party, but didn’t finish the act. Rivera got so angry that he…
