The flames of hate rarely relight a dimming flicker of love, but L.B. Williams of Panama City decided to stage a fake KKK-style cross burning in his front yard as a last-ditch effort to get his wife to call off their planned divorce. Instead, the bizarre romantic scheme ended with Williams…
Even with the unofficial entrance of Connie Mack IV into the race, the GOP Senate nomination in Florida is still a wide-open race. Today Nick Loeb, the grandson of one of the Lehman Brothers and, so much more important, the boyfriend of Sofia Vergara, will make an announcement in South…
Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn’t ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito’s force, the U.S. Justice Department is set to announce this morning that federal investigators will probe…
It didn’t take long for Herman Cain to show just how completely he ignored Riptide’s advice to study up on Cuban policy before parachuting into Versailles this afternoon. While being swarmed by citizens and journalists on Calle Ocho, Cain made it abundantly clear he had simply never heard of “wet…
Hector Lombard insists he is getting no love from his compatriots in South Florida. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, Bellator’s middleweight champ is a fast-rising star in professional mixed martial arts. Yet he is not getting any recognition from South Florida’s Cuban community, Lombard laments as he prepares for his Saturday-night…
Russian billionaires battle for Fisher Island
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Twin brothers, one an FIU student and another a UM student who was on track to become a Marine officer, have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after about $75,000 worth of marijuana plants were found in their shared South Miami apartment. The discovery was made after…
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Paul Michael Mira, the athletic director of Archimedean Middle Conservatory and Archimedean Upper Conservatory, two associated Miami-Dade charter schools, is on the run after being accused of committing sexual battery on a 12-year-old girl. Police report that Mira has told relatives that he’d sooner kill himself than be caught alive. …
We’d expect a poorly Photoshopped picture of President Barack Obama lip locking with Venezuela’s controversial leader Hugo Chávez to appear on some Miami Republican’s blog, not in an ad associated with a clothing company. Yet United Colors of Benetton is responsible for the bizarre image. It’s apparently supposed to get us…
In an ethically fuzzy move, WSVN aired what basically amounted to a self-serving editorial disguised as a news reports about the horrors of a possible strip joint that would have opened directly next door to their studios multiple times yesterday (in fact, its also been uploaded to their website under…
For a team that has had one of the lowest payrolls in the past few years and claimed they could only spend $155 million to build their own stadium, the Miami Marlins certainly seem to have a lot of money to be throwing around all of the sudden. After reports…
Most Dolphin fans are still in “Suck for Luck” mode, but with two straight wins under their belt, some members of the team apparently still have playoff hopes alive. Which isn’t exactly impossible, just largely improbable. Then again, with a 2-7 record they are only 5 games behind the leaders…
Who knew churning out McLovin licenses for desperate college kids was a goldmine? For Brandon Albanito, a 25-year-old in Cape Coral, the fake ID biz was a million-dollar enterprise, with a 2010 Lexus, a Bentley and a 2003 Ferrari, a nearly $400,000 house and mountains of drugs as the side…
The end of the year is a time of reflection around these parts. Specifically, it’s a time to dig through our old police reports and find the most cretinous criminal offender in 2011. Our first nominee, 20-year-old Samuel Lee Walker, is a top front-runner. He’s a budding career criminal who…
Dailin Pico Rodriguez was sentenced to 50 months in prison yesterday after a judge ruled that she had falsely accused Miami Federal Detention Center correctional officers of repeated sexual assault.Her claims fell apart when DNA analysis proved the spunk on her jail uniform didn’t belong to FDC guards but to…
All things considered, the Occupy Miami protests at Government Center in downtown have been relatively peaceful, and Miami-Dade County has been pretty lenient about dealing with protesters. Though, on Thursday they asked the protesters to move about 50 feet to the north lawn of the center while a crane was…
Deputies at the Okaloosa County Jail in Florida found a loaded .38 revolver hidden inside a jail cell. At first officials weren’t sure how the gun wound up inside the jail, but an investigation has found that two arresting deputies failed to properly search the body of a suspect when…
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