Despite 9,000 Miami Beach citizens signing a petition to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, the city’s attorney said that creating such a law is an impossibility. The attorney claims that such an action would conflict with state law…
We have to hand it to Florida criminals. They’re finding new, innovative ways to get arrested for causing public disturbances with disgusting body fluids. Yesterday it was fecal mater. Today it’s back-pimple ooze…
Yesterday, jollily bearded fellow Edmund Barksdale set the AP’s Poop Alert Newswire® ablaze with his bizarre tale of getting Tasered while taking a dump in a Destin park. Yet he’s far from the first fecal-matter felon to snag Florida headlines.If George Orwell put thoughtcrime on the map, the Sunshine State…
At 3:30 this morning a Miami-Dade police shot and killed a 32-year-old woman after she started firing at officers, and shot one in the abdomen. Police responded to the scene after the woman was reported to have been making threats to herself and others. Update: The woman has been identified…
Earlier this year, Florida’s 17th congressional district, which includes a large portion of Miami’s African-American residents, was ranked the most suffering district in America. Now, a new report claims that it has the highest number of hungry children in the nation. More than half of families with children in the…
According to the highly cited annual college rankings from US News and World Report, the University of Miami is not only the best college in Florida, but the 47th best in the entire country. However, according to Forbes magazine’s rankings, UM is only the 221st best college in the country…
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While Howard Schnellenberger may be the coach at Florida Atlantic University, news of his impeding retirement will surely resonate down in Coral Gables. Before Schnellenberger arrived at the University of Miami in 1979, the school was better known for its palm trees and good weather than its small-time football program…
You know when you get so comfortable with someone that you can leave the door open when you’re using the bathroom? Maybe that’s kind of what happened between Edmund Berkeley Barksdale and an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy.Barksdale is no stranger to law enforcement in Destin, Florida. Unfortunately, his latest arrest…
After giving conflicting statements about the Dolphin wide receiver’s bizarre April 22 stabbing, neither Brandon Marshall nor his wife Michi Nogomi-Marshall were convicted of a crime. But the release of documents yesterday leaves the door wide open for us nosy assholes to judge for ourselves what happened.According to reports obtained…
Poor Mike Miller. He sat out a good chunk of last season with a thumb injury, only to return to not win the NBA Finals. Now it turns out he was taken for a financial ride by Ponzi schemer Anthony John Johnson. Guy just can’t catch a break. Of course,…
Mary Dimakis was born so long ago that when she moved into the Roads, there were few paved streets in the neighborhood. Dimakis will soon turn 108, making her the second-oldest resident in South Florida. The oldest, at 111, is Antonia Rivera, who lives just a few miles away. Dimakis is old…
Have you heard the one about the well-endowed Playboy model who got a big-name football coach in hot water after posing racily in his locker room — and then topped it off by getting arrested for carrying a loaded gun into an airport? No? You’ll be shocked to learn that…
Conchita Transit jitney company torn by family feud
Tea Party wants to limit government in space
Miami Herald bets on Asian gambling giant
Los Miami gang nabbed in huge drug bust
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average health plan costs an American family $13,770 in premiums a year. Gov. Rick Scott pays just $360 to insure himself and his wife thanks to a state government plan he’s enrolled in. Yep, the average American pays 38.25 times percent more for…
The answer to the question in the headline, depending on your outlook, is either “probably not” or “who the hell cares?” Yet, by virtue of the fact that newly minted Miami Dolphin Reggie Bush used to date the crown jewel of the Kardashian empire, the team’s media relations people better…
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Citizens for National Security, a Boca Raton-based group that’s dedicated itself to identifying pro-Islam bias in textbooks, has filed suit against the state of Florida, Gov. Rick Scott, and the state’s Department of Eduction, claiming that a new law concerning the review of textbooks would not do enough to make…
You’d think graffiti would be a young man’s game. Especially the kind of down-and-dirty, illegal type that requires taggers to covertly leave their mark while being prepared to run like hell if anyone catches them. Well, there’s always an exception to the rule.Meet 71-year-old Charles Ignatius Wesley. He was finally…
