It’s about time to give Miami-Dade’s northern seaside enclave a more appropriate moniker — Shady Isles Beach, perhaps?Consider: Last fall, voters in Sunny Isles Beach had three choices for city commission. One of them, Isaac Feldman, was later arrested for his role running an amazing South Beach scam involving Eastern…
During the Congressional Black Caucus’s recent jobs tour, where Democratic politicians held town halls and job fairs, several members of the caucus made remarks attacking the Tea Party. Miami’s own Frederica Wilson made some headlines for telling an audience that “the real enemy is the Tea Party.”Now remarks made by…
A tropical storm moving to the northwest in the Atlantic Ocean could send more big wind up North.Now only an unorganized mess packing 65 mph winds, Tropical Storm Katia is expected to increase to a Category 2 hurricane in the next five days and to head northwest toward North Carolina or…
Well, Transparency International ranks Venezuela the most corrupt nation in the Western Hemisphere. Globally, it ranks just behind Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Not a promising start.Now an ongoing FBI investigation — outlined in this week’s feature — threatens to ensnare Tomás Sánchez, the head of the Venezuelan Securities Commission and…
According to a lawsuit filed in Orlando, Shaquille O’Neal had henchman Justin Zormelo stalk a mistress named Vanessa Lopez in October 2009. Two months later, Shaq and Zormelo had a bizarre online chat about the job. Riptide has obtained a stash of several of the Big Berlusconi’s salacious and infidelity-laced…
Just six days before the University of Miami Hurricanes season opener against the Maryland Terrapins, the NCAA has confirmed the eight players previously ruled ineligible by the school for their part in the Nevin Shapiro fiasco must miss games and repay benefits from the crooked booster. Five of those players,…
Emilio Palacio is hiding out in a tiny, tree-shrouded house in west Coconut Grove. Had the 57-year-old not fled his native Ecuador this past Wednesday, he’d be behind bars — jailed for the truth.Instead, he’s staring out a shattered window in his brother’s home onto an overgrown yard and trashing…
Political yard signs usually highlight a promise or throw out a catchy slogan: Smith for Jobs or I Like Ike! Not too many politicos have spent cash to highlight their escape from felony cases.Only in Miami would you find the kind of yard signs that have been popping up all…
Concourse F at Miami International Airport was evacuated around 3 p.m. due to a suspicious package found at a security checkpoint in the terminal that handles international flights. The bomb squad was called in to evaluate the package. Updated: The terminal has been reopened. …
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This could very well be the Hurricanes’ last chance to make a post-season appearance for a while, and both CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated predict the Hurricanes will wind up in a respectable, but not stellar bowl…
The sight off Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez staring out at you from the cover of the latest GQ is probably not a welcome site for most Miami sports fans, but rest assured there will be some local athlete representation in the men’s fashion section of you local magazine rack soon…
Despite the fact that Solange Knowles’s run-in with a Miami Beach Police officer this weekend involved a five-foot banana balloon, the singer and her reps aren’t treating the situation any less seriously. Her reps have released a statement clarifying that the weapon pulled on her by an officer was a switchblade…
There are certain things politicians just don’t say in South Florida. Somewhere between praising Fidel Castro and insulting our Key lime pie sits suggesting that we set up oil rigs in the middle of the Everglades. During her trip in Florida this weekend, Michele Bachmann said she was open to…
Some dudes might be worried about the TSA’s airport body-scanning devices uncovering their, um, “snake,” but last week at Miami International Airport, the imaging technology uncovered seven small snakes wrapped in ladies’ hosiery stuffed inside a man’s pants. Three turtles were also found…
Last December, the Disney-planned utopia of Celebration, Florida — a Rockwellian copy of small-town Americana, complete with calming elevator music piped around town — made headlines for its first murder and, days later, its first hours-long police standoff ending in suicide. Now, courtesy of a broker named Daniel Sebastian, Celebration…
The sad, strange saga of Ronald Miranda is finally drawing to an end.Miranda bolted from Los Banos, California, in 1980 after allegedly killing a man he found sleeping with his estranged wife. His face was splashed on “FBI’s Most Wanted” playing cards around the country, but Miranda successfully reinvented himself…
University of Miami Hurricanes’ head football coach Al Golden expects to have an answer on whether eight players deemed ineligible will be reinstated by the NCAA in the next 48 hours. And it’s just in time. The season is a week away. …
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What the hell are the Miami Dolphins thinking? When the Denver Broncos come to town on October 23 with Tim Tebow in tow –assuming he isn’t cut or traded by then — they’re planing a celebratory reunion of the 2009 Gators team.Not only does this amount to basically a celebration…
The big news concerning the Knowles family this weekend was the confirmation of the imminent arrival of Baby Knowles-Carter at the VMAs last weekend. But Beyonce’s little sister, Solange, was apparently in town this weekend and claims a cop intimidated her by pulling a weapon on her for no reason…
An apparent bomb threat to the Sofitel Hotel has caused the evacuation of the luxury hotel near the airport. The threat was called in around 10 a.m., and guests began being evacuated sometime before 11:30 a.m…
