News of Hugo Chávez’s mysterious cancer diagnosis has Miami’s exile community buzzing over the possibility that the Venezuelan president, and one of Fidel Castro’s biggest allies, will not be in office much longer. In an interview today with the BCC, however, Chávez admitted he might need further chemotherapy but still intends…
UPDATE: Wambach scored the game winner in the USA’s 3-1 win over France this afternoon.We’ve heard all the bogus excuses: “soccer is boring; women aren’t good enough; if they aren’t in bikinis, I’m boycotting.”Accept it, dude. The Women’s World Cup has been downright kick-ass this year: from six-goal thrillers –…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a millionaire business mogul with little name recognition is using his vast fortune to jumpstart a surprising campaign for a statewide office in Florida. Yep, after the mixed results of Rick Scott and Jeff Greene is 2010, Craig Miller, the former CEO…
Members of Florida Tea Party groups are so upset with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s efforts to save manatees that they are claiming that new rules to possibly be imposed in famous Kings Bay would not only go against the Bible, but also are part of a vast United Nations conspiracy…
The Democratically aligned Public Policy Polling and the nonpartisan Quinnipiac University polling service have both shown that Rick Scott’s approval ratings are about the worst of any governor in the nation. But some of Rick Scott’s fervent supporters might be the type to doubt the accuracy of “the lamestream media.”…
The condition that the Florida Marlins change their name to the Miami Marlins as part of the deal for their new stadium has been well known locally for years. But the baseball-loving world at large (which we assume does not care much about the Marlins otherwise) apparently learned of the news last…
Tourist Manuel Olguin wound up with three young women, whom he had met on the streets of South Beach at 3 a.m., in his hotel room yesterday morning. Unfortunately for him, this was not the beginning of a Cinemax-worthy fantasy. The trio ended up robbing him…
Our policy concerning claims involving government and bureaucracy is: If it’s egregious, silly, and inept, it’s probably true. So we’re inclined to believe the story that’s exploded on user-generated site Reddit. According to MRoudet– or “Mr. Roudet”– his grandmother, the nice old lady pictured to the right there (click to…
The death of an 18-month-old boy is being investigated by Miami-Dade homicide detectives after his body was found in an alleyway outside a Homestead day-care center yesterday afternoon around 3:30…
Jose Canseco isn’t sorry he published his ex-girlfriend’s telephone number on Twitter Friday night. He told us he’d do it again.We spoke with his ex, Leila Shennib, a fitness model. She said she’s been getting so many calls and texts offering to trade drugs for sex that Verizon has called to…
Miami Beach voters might just get a chance this year to decriminalize pot. If the measure is approved, it would become the first city in South Florida to let small-time tokers off the hook with a $100 fine instead of criminal charges. That’s because Sensible Florida, a legalization group we…
Joakim Noah aside, lots of sports stars are coming out in favor of GLBT rights. Few however are willing to take their convictions far enough to end up shirtless and oiled on the cover of a gay magazine. Then again, Miami Hurricanes legend Michael Irvin has never been like most…
Did you pay Tomeka Wimberly at Wizard Tax Services Inc. to fill out your return this year? Did she claim Doritos and Mountain Dew on your work expenses? How about the little known “new underwear credit”?And did you get a nice refund of roughly $4,000?If so, we hope you haven’t…
If former Carol City High football star Willie Williams played his cards right, he’d be spending his summer locked out of the NFL. Instead he’s once again locked behind bars. Cincinnati.com reports Williams is being held in jail on charges of second-degree robbery in Ohio…
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Elisha Dawkins, the veteran of the Army and Navy who was jailed for passport fraud and subsequently found out he was not an actual American citizen, has settled his case. He will be allowed to walk free and will now be able to obtain legal American citizenship…
ll have our payday rituals. A 63-year-old man in Fort Pierce, for example, liked to hire a few hookers on Friday nights after he got his paycheck — different ladies every time if he could swing it. Prostitutes can certainly wear a guy out, so the man would fell asleep…
Well, you’ve finally done it Florida. You’ve beaten the Marlins into submission. The team with the worst attendance in the major leagues has given up: They have closed the upper deck of its stadium for the rest of the season, an inconvenience to the three people that ever sat up…
ast time rapper and former co-owner of The Source magazine Benzino was arrested in Miami Beach in 2001, he threatened to boycott the city. Of course, he didn’t, and Benzino (AKA Raymond Scott) was back in SoBe last week and was arrested for erratic driving. Police also found in his…
It was trying to buy some Gucci shades that did him in.Thirty-year-old Ricardo Fleurant was arrested at the Coastland Center Mall in Naples late last week after running out of a Sunglass Hut with what a clerk suspected was a stolen debit card, according to the Naples News. Police say…
Update: The funding campaign seems to have been suspended by Kickstarter’s staff.Wanna get high? There’s not an iPhone app for that yet, but thanks to the ingenuity of Miamians there is now an iPhone case for that. A couple of local guys, according to their Kickstarter page, are trying to…
We’re actually kind of surprised it took this long for someone to appoint Kendrick Meek to something. The White House has announced that it will nominate the former South Florida congressman to a representative position at the United Nations…
