In March 2010, 21-year-old Julia Sumnicht, a Wisconsin college student and aspiring model, died in Miami Beach after overdosing on a date rape drug. Now the New York Post reports that her death has been linked to Jason Itlzer, the self-proclaimed “King of All Pimps” who formerly ran a high-class escort service…
Angie Varona has likely never posed professionally (except maybeyearbook photos) yet she has unwittingly become one of the Internet’s favorite models. Problem is, Varona is only 17, and Internet pervs en masse have been trading candid photos of the Miami teen since she was 14. Varona claims her life has been ruined…
A bunch of the state’s Republican activists gathered this weekend at the Presidency 5 conference and held one of those crazy, meaningless straw polls of which they’re so fond. Of course, with a wide-open and ever-changing Republican field, the contest did take on extra meaning. Texas Gov. Rick Perry had…
This past Sunday afternoon in Liberty City, suspects began shooting at two men inside a silver Nissan. The bullets left DeRon Woody dead and Greg Roberts injured. The suspects then fled in a black Buick sedan…
Deep in the sweatiest bowels of Sun Life Stadium, one of Jeffrey Loria’s minions is ticking off a to-do list for next season, when his ball club will be rechristened the Miami Marlins and move into a gleaming, fresh Little Havana home.”New $515 million stadium at taxpayer expense?” Check! “Garish…
The Miami Dolphins dominated pretty much every facet of the game against the Cleveland Browns yesterday, including rushing and passing yards. They even held a 16-10 lead with 43 seconds remaining.But because they are the Dolphins, they went ahead and did that thing where they go all epic fail on…
The kickoff of the Miami Hurricanes-Kansas State Wildcats game has been delayed 30 minutes due to lightning, but there’s a far more baffling display of nature going on at Sun Life Stadium right now. The bowl has been invaded by thousands of dragonflies…
Alexis Sanfield, owner of the Luna Star Cafe, announced Saturday that her 88-year-old dad, Roberto, had died. He had been married to Alexis’s mom for exactly 50 years. Here is the note that Alexis sent out…
Conquering the swim between Florida and Cuba is Diana Nyad’s Holy Grail. She first attempted the swim decades ago as a 28-year-old. In August, at the age of 62 she tried again, but shoulder pain and an asthma attack forced her to give up. Rather than wait another 34 years, Nyad…
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Rene Sanabria, the man who was once charged with policing Bolivia’s drug trade, will serve 14 years in an American clink for masterminding a plot to smuggle 315 pounds of Bolivian marching powder into the country. Sanabria had pleaded guilty to the charges in June after being accused of the…
Celebrities basically live by a golden rule: Do whatever the hell you want; just make sure no one films you doing it. (Lest you end up like Miley Cyrus smoking salvia on TMZ.) But in this day and age, we all have to watch out for the amateur paparazzi.Natalie Santagata,…
Over the past ten years, if Dolphins fans haven’t been talking about publicly drawing and quartering whatever unlucky sap is filling the quarterback role at Sun Life Stadium, they’ve likely yapping about burning the coach on a cross. Or, at least his contract.With a 0-2 record and the longest active…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is boldly breaking away from the rest of the Republican party to become the first and likely only Republican to co-sponsor a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Ros-Lehtinen, currently the most senior female Republican member of the house and chairwoman of the House…
Last night, the merry band of Republicans running for president met for the second time in Florida for a debate. This time it was in Orlando, sponsored by Google and Fox News, and involved questions submitted by actual citizens, including Stephen Hill, a newly out and openly gay soldier stationed…
Six weeks ago, Jennifer Lynn Hearn started bragging on Facebook that her husband had left her, but she’d already found a new man: “Wow. I am so glad one person walked out of my life so others could walk in,” she wrote.Turns out, her husband, Carl “Cliff” Hearn, didn’t exactly…
The Florida Marlins’ sad, sad season has gone from merely pathetic to positively ridiculous. Yesterday, the interwebs were atwitter with speculation over why the team suddenly sent closer Leo Nuñez to his native Dominican Republic only hours after helping the Fish defeat the Atlanta Braves.Well, last night we found out…
Marlins relief pitcher Leo Núñez, who’s racked up a career high 36 saves this season so far as the team’s closer, has mysteriously been suspended by the team and left the country, according to The Miami Herald. The report has precious few details. Nothing like a gold ol’ sports controversy…
Rick Perry hopes to make a big showing in Florida’s Presidency 5 straw poll, and is quickly snapping up supporters in the state. In fact, he’s recently named Pam Olsen as his new Florida co-chair.You might not have heard of the Tallahassee resident, but she has a history of making…
Det. Ed Hill of North Miami Beach has already broken one giant police no-no: sleeping with the Russian mail-order bride of a man he’d just arrested for murder. Just for good measure, he went ahead and took over the jailed man’s driveway-paving business, too.Now Hill is accused of forging a…
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The latest edition of the Forbes 400 is out, and 21 of the most filthy rich scions in America call humble little South Florida their primary home. Micky Arison, Miami Heat owner and Carnival Cruises CEO has the biggest moneybags in Miami with a net worth of $4.2 billion. That…
