Extortion, espionage, mistresses, and Delonte West’s penis. Just how crazy is Shaquille O’Neal’s personal life? Last February, local prosecutors met with Vanessa Lopez, a woman claiming to be O’Neal’s former mistress, about an alleged extortion plot, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigative report obtained by Riptide. Authorities…
Food Not Bombs fights to give away food in parks
Andrew Marshall: Miami’s Ted Kaczynski
MBPD Chief Carlos Noriega erupts at resident’s questions about Nevin Shapiro
Florida’s Republican legislature and Gov. Rick Scott passed and signed so many controversial bills into law this year that it’s hard to keep track.Earlier this year, Scott signed into law an NRA-backed bill that for some reason prohibits doctors from asking patients about gun ownership. (So much for the Republican…
Just weeks after North Miami Police fatally shot an autistic man playing with a toy gun, officers from another South Florida police force are in hot water for using violence against a mentally disadvantaged man. NBC Miami reports that Saturday night, a Miami-Dade Police officer slammed a man with Down syndrome…
Miami Herald Dolphins reporter Armando Salguero sure is mighty pissed that the paper dared report on news from the National Enquirer that an upcoming biography about Sarah Palin includes claims she once boofed Miami Heat star Glen Rice in the ’80s. According to Random Pixels, Salguero was so irate he sent out…
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Steven Martonffy, a member of the Miami Beach Fire Department, sits behind bars today after allegedly driving a city vehicle while drunk and then crashing it into a parked car early this morning…
In a weird way, Lil Wayne is the ideal of Republican manhood. He’s a self-made businessman worth millions. He loves capitalistic excess. He hates taxes so much sometimes he forget to pay them. He clearly believes in the right to bear arms. Yet President Carter has little love for the GOP and…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Miami Heat great Glen Rice had a “steamy” one-night stand with Tea Party queen bee Sarah Palin back when he was a University of Michigan star and she was a local TV sportscaster. Wait, no one has ever heard that one before because…
This year’s Major League Baseball season isn’t over, but for the Florida Marlins, it pretty much is.In fact, the Florida Marlins are technically pretty much over. Next year, they’ll be in that new stadium with a new name, and the MLB has announced that the team will play the very…
Is there Twitter trouble in basketball paradise? Dwyane Wade and LeBron James took to Twitter to insult each other. Actually it was in good fun, because, as we’re beginning to notice, these guys are so totally bored during the NBA lockout…
A South Florida man sentenced to decades in prison for a minor drug charge will finally get his chance in court to prove he didn’t commit the crime.U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard issued a ruling September 8 that grants Elroy Phillips a hearing to present his evidence. Phillips…
Meet Jesus Rodolfo Hernandez. During his short tenure with the Miami-Dade Police Department, he racked up enough controversy to qualify as one of the worst people to wear the department’s badge. After being thrown off the force in disgrace, the 26-year-old apparently turned to the illegal sale of monkeys and…
If you have electricity in your house, you have paid FPL $268 million ostensibly to build two new reactors at Turkey Point. You’ll probably pay nearly $200 million more in 2012. Problem is, those reactors may never be built. Last week we warned that the utility’s Turkey Point plant could be under water in…
Miami-native turned internet scourge Perez Hilton will be back in town this weekend while hosting two different events to promote his new children’s book. Apparently there are still people out there who want to meet Perez Hilton?Anyway, the Belen Jesuit grad also unleashed his latest website to the world today:…
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Things weren’t so nice in the First United Methodist Church on Niceville a few Sundays ago. Apparently a 14-year-old boy, bored with the pastor’s sermon, decided to whip his little flesh pulpit out and go to town in the middle of service…
A woman in her 60s was found dead on an Opa-locka street early this morning. Police believe she was shot through the back, but have released few other details…
Kelly Rowland and Jennifer Hudson were not holding a seminar on how to climb out of Beyoncé Knowles’s shadow. While visiting Rowland’s Miami Beach home, they were filming a segment for the British edition of Simon Cowell’s X Factor, on which Rowland is now a judge. But the shoot was…
Miami Dolphins fans certainly had a lot to curse about during last night’s game, though few of us had the duties of announcing the game live on television. ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski, a former Dolphins player, officially turned the broadcast into a shit show when he let out the four-letter expletive while…
