David Andrew Shawfield left his three young children in a hot car. After being arrested for child neglect, Shawfield not only yelled at the children, but also asked one of his friends not to bail him out because he “could use a vacation” behind bars. Yeah, and you thought your…
Sunshine or granite? Sex on the beach or maple syrup on hotcakes? “Welcome to Miami” or “Live Free or Die”?It’s been fun Florida, but you’re just too damn crazy for Jon Huntsman.After a three-month flirtation, the Republican presidential hopeful is ditching the nation’s dong and focusing on a state one…
Two years ago, a tiny, Doral-based computer firm called Psystar challenged Apple with a legal question its two 20-something founders believed had never really been answered in court: Can Steve Jobs legally force consumers to use Apple operating systems only on Apple hardware?Psystar just got its answer in the Court…
LeBron James, being the business mogul that he is, and his partners launched Sheets energy strips earlier this year. They’re like those dissolvable breath freshener strips, except they contain caffeine and other energy supplements.Well, someone in the marketing department over at Sheets HQ really, really finds the fact that sheet…
It’s not news that Americans love buying cheap Chinese-made goods, but the disparity between how much we import from China and how much we export to the country has resulted in about 2.8 million American jobs being displaced to China between 2001 and 2010. Florida has been particularly hard hit,…
Danny Parker, a Sunday school teacher from Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and eventually convicted on child porn charges in 2009 after he was found to have cut out the faces of children from photos he’d taken and then pasted them on the bodies of explicit photos of adults. Now, a…
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Peter William Munoz, a 24-year-old member of the Coral Springs Police Department, has been arrested and charged with DUI manslaughter after hitting another car in Coral Gables over the summer. The other driver, Jennifer Gutierrez, 23, died of her injuries…
Miami’s largely Republican Cuban exile community and Fidel Castro for once actually agree on something! They all think President Barack Obama is stupid!Yesterday, Obama said his administration is “open to a new relationship with Cuba if the Cuban government starts taking the proper steps to open up its own country,”…
The first poll of Florida voters taken after Herman Cain’s surprise win in the Florida Presidency 5 straw poll is out, and combined with his crazy straw loss and fumbling performances in two debates Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign seems to have hit a snag in the state. He’s fallen…
In terms of mascots, TD the Dolphins doesn’t get much respect. Despite being a dolphins he’s actually kind of terrifying looking, plus he’s sort of a let down from the days the ‘Fins had an actual Dolphins in the stadium. At least the dude has mad soccer skills, which he…
Back in July, Panama City, Florida teen Jacob Hendershot was missing for weeks before his naked body was found dead inside a storm drain. Now one of four suspects in the case claims she’s a vampire.”Since I was like 12 every fiber in my body basically everything, I know this…
On Tuesday, like most days, 88-year-old Felix Espinosa was waiting for a bus to take him to a senior center where he frequently eats lunch and plays dominoes. Instead he wound up at Jackson Memorial Hospital after being brutally beaten by a thug who tried to rob him of cash…
Say farewell to the most enduring image of the time bubble the Castros have built around Cuba: the kinda charming fleet of jerry-rigged ’50s American cars clogging Havana’s streets, held together with not much more than duct tape and hope.For fifty years, the regime has forbidden most Cubans from buying…
Rhett Fuller spent 21 years running from murder charges; now he’s coming home
Three Miami mayors block Genting casino
Cops raid Jimbo’s over fishy business
The Miami Marlins must suck up to a boat salesman for a website
FIU’s upstart law school kicks UM’s aristocratic ass
The race for the Republican nomination to take on Sen. Bill Nelson next year is in a sad state of affairs. Some grassroots nobody named Mike McCallister is leading the pack with 17 percent of the vote, but 58 percent of Republican voters are still undecided. Meanwhile, the two establishment…
No matter how much you may love animals, can we just all agree that PETA has become the worst? They’re obnoxious turds who actually kill thousands of animals, not to mention they have some of the stupidest, most cloying advertising not dreamed up by Crispin Porter. Now they’ve put up…
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