With their defense flying around making plays and their offense opting for touchdowns instead of field goals, all signs pointed to the Miami Dolphins getting their first win of the season. FUCK YEA!But then Tim Tebow dialed up the Jesus, led the Denver Broncos in erasing a 15-point deficit, tied…
For 26 years, taxpayers have poured hundreds of millions into Doral-based TV and Radio Marti to beam American news into Cuba with the idea that keeping Havana abreast of Florida Marlins’ scores will inspire Cubanos to rise up against the Castros. But Fidel is far too wily for that –…
One of Florida’s signature roller coaster thrills has been halted permanently after an incident this summer in which a man lost an eye. The Dragon Challenge at the Harry Potter section of Universal Studio’s Islands of Adventure park for years launched two roller coaster simultaneously. The peak thrill came when…
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The fallout from this morning’s take down of Marco Rubio’s supposed family story in the Washington Post has been fierce and fast. First, The Miami Herald came to Rubio’s defense and challenged some of the Post’s assertions. Now Rubio has penned his own editorial for Politico and calls the story…
The great college football blight in Florida continues as not a single team from the state is in the AP poll. Before the release of the week seven poll, that hadn’t happened since 1982. Though, while the Big 3 — University of Florida, Florida State, and University Miami — now…
Jealousy is about as pretty as a bag full of used condoms.A woman in Gainesville stands accused of verbally assaulting a female store clerk at a Kangaroo convenience store, dumping a bag of used condoms on the counter, slinging one at the clerk, and, for good measure, exposing all of…
FIU boasts that its student body “reflects the vibrant diversity of South Florida.” But students like Wendy Ruiz need not apply.Ruiz, an honor student at Miami Dade College, tried to fill out the online application last year but got stuck on a question about her parents, according to a lawsuit…
A jail transport van was driving inmate Drew Gabrish, 50, from Key West to Martin County. When guards stopped at the Miami-Dade jail earlier this week to pick up another inmate they found Gabrish dead in the back of the van. He had committed suicide by choking himself on a…
Several employees at the satellite Miami-Dade courthouse in Coral Gables fell mysteriously ill yesterday. HazMat crews evacuated the building, and the courthouse will remain closed today. The building had just been fumigated with pesticides earlier in the month, but officials are not entirely sure what caused the employees to fall…
It is 8:30 p.m. and Occupy Miami’s general assembly is raging outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami. This gathering of about 60 activists, including college students, concerned citizens borderline yuppies, people stylin’ with handbags, bike folks, and South American grandfather revolutionaries started two hours ago. That’s right, two hours ago. Most…
Steve Job’s first posthumous release — the iPhone 4S — is getting a lot of buzz for its new “personal assistant”, Siri, who’s supposed to be really good at setting up meetings and booking hotel rooms for high-powered types. Or finding the nearest hookers for alt-weekly staffers, apparently. Yesterday, we…
American politics is a fickle bitch. One day you’re Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy and front-runner for the Republican vice presidential nomination. The next day, you’re just an asshole who distorted his family history to play on the sympathy of constituents, including fellow Cuban-Americans.According to documents unearthed by birthers earlier…
Adam Hasner is banking heavily on Tea Party support in his quest to secure the Republican nomination to take on Bill Nelson in 2012, but in a fundraising letter today he unleashed a very angry rant against another group of political protesters. Hasner pulled no punches in attacking, and in…
Florida will add two new congressional districts in 2012, and the Senate Reapportionment Committee is meeting to determine where to place those districts. One of the leading plans includes carving out a new district in Orange, Osceola and Polk counties that would create a strongly Hispanic-leading district.Well, Republican state Senator…
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Obviously the big dictator news of the day is the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Though, Gaddafi’s close ally in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, chose today to make a big public announcement that he’s free of cancer. Not that the announcement is likely to do away with chatter about his health…
The University of Miami is getting into the hotel business withplans to construct an 18-story hotel as part of its Life Science and Technology Park. However, given its Overtown location, it will not target regular tourists. The hotel will include conference space and hopes to attract medical conferences and provide…
Back in 2009, surveillance cameras caught four men breaking into an Opa-Locka barber shop and robbing and pistol whipping local rapper Brisco (né British Alexander Mitchell). The thieves made off with around $40,000 in jewelry, including chains and a watch. Now, a little over two years later the first of…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they haven’t made a huge pot bust at the Port of Miami for months, but sometimes you just have to wait. Authorities report they discovered 3,837 pounds of marijuana, nearly two tons, stuffed inside shipping containers at the port last Friday…
It seemed like a reasonable enough criminal master plan: Break into a bagel shop and make off with the cash register and all of that precious, green money inside. Well, now Erica Denise Phillips sits behind bars for a crime that wasn’t worth it. There was only a single, shiny…
The Miami Heat’s big three are reportedly ready to pack their bags and head on a six-city international tour with a host of other NBA superstars during what would have been the first two weeks of the NBA season. Plans are still being worked out, but between October 30 and…
