305 Photo of the Day: Preparing for the Fourth
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Showing 18921 - 18942 of 31972Sarasota Principal Hypnotized Three Students Before Their Strange Deaths
Remember Dr. George Kenney, the hypnosis enthusiast/principal of North Port High School in Sarasota, who was suspended after a student he hypnotized suffered a fatal drug overdose the next day? Well turns out that isn’t the only student Kenney hypnotized who later turned up dead. An investigation found that three…
Landscaper Sues FPL After Power Line Blows His Eye Out
Dwane Torres was hired to remove vegetation from around a power line in the back of a Key Biscayne house. The homeowners had called FPL repeatedly to take care of the overgrowth, but the utility company refused. Unfamiliar with the position of the power lines, Torres used a large saw-like…
LeBron James Alive, At U2 Concert
Good news, Miami! LeBron James has not fled the country, nor does he appear to be too depressed for a few photos with some fellow squagillionaires. Apparently inspired by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s release of pictures to prove he’s not too dead, LeBron’s business manager Maverick Carter tweeted several pictures…
Castro Death Meter: Fidel Still Way More Dead Than Chavez, Analysts Proclaim
Amid all the brouhaha over Hugo Chavez going all Bobby Fischer on South America’s ass, the world seems to have forgotten about the original undead dictator. And he’s taking the lack of attention personally. A couple of missives (translated) from his official Twitter feed: fidelcastro: @hugochavez nOOb. fidelcastro: @AP Hey,…
Kimbo Slice to Make Boxing Debut
Despite being perhaps the biggest biggest bust in MMA’s short history, Kimbo Slice still has a lot on his plate. Besides making plans to star in a motion picture, Slice is set to make his professional boxing debut in Miami …another Miami. Miami, Oklahoma. Lets hope he lasts more than…
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Miami Man Scammed Minnesota Seniors Out of Thousands by Pretending to Be a Grandson and Asking for Money
You might not call your grandparents nearly enough, but Robert Attias, a Canadian citizen whose last known address was in Miami, might have. Attias is charged with ripping off seniors in Minnesota and pretending to be their grandson asking for money. He’s believed to have swindled more than $15,525…
Exposito and Regalado Tussle In Park Over Payout Offer
At an anti-gun rally in Charles Hadley Park this morning, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and arch enemy/police chief Miguel Exposito blasted one another before TV cameras.The whole thing started like Sharks vs. Jets about 10 a.m. when Regalado was holding forth to a horde of reporters and a couple dozen…
Americans Hate LeBron James So Much That They Buy His Sneakers
He’s a jerk. Filmmakers don’t want him in their LeBron-themed movies. He somehow pissed off Taiwan. The Decision, The Decision, The Decision. LeBron James, as Riptide has reported countless times, is the most hated man in sports.But damn, can the guy sell a shoe…
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Chris Hansen Accused of Cheating, Gets Exactly What’s Coming to Him (UPDATED)
Update, 2:17 p.m.: Random Pixels blogger Bill Cooke has put up the Hansen spread, complete with a photo of Hansen leaving a Palm Beach liquor store, his wedding ring gleaming in the sunlight.You know who he is: The expensive haircut, the cheap ties. The fake tan, the small-town wrestling announcer…
Exposito: City Officials Offered $400,000 To Resign As Police Chief
A story that started yesterday with blogger Al Crespo posting a mysterious, voided city check for $200,000 ended with more ammo fed into the raging firefight between the Miami Police Department and City Hall when Chief Miguel Exposito admitted the check was part of a huge payout he was offered…
Sarah Myles Says Miami-Dade Cops Broke Her Wrist, Invented Charges Against Her
When Miami-Dade cops arrested Sarah Myles on October 9, 2009, they described her as the Warren Sapp of Little Haiti housewives. They claimed the supposedly six-foot, 250-pound Myles “jumped” on a sergeant’s back during a traffic stop and had to be piledriven off.But Myles, who two weeks ago was acquitted…
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Rick Scott wants to drug-test his brother
When Gov. Rick Scott, a rising star of the Tea Party movement, signed into law a bill May 31 requiring that Florida’s welfare recipients pass drug tests, he didn’t mention how close to home the issue hits. Scott has a brother in Texas who receives welfare — and might also…
Controversial Miami activist Max Rameau leaves town
In 2007, amid the champagne-drenched corporate orgy known as the Super Bowl, a busload of reporters found itself on a very different kind of junket. Rather than locker-rooms full of millionaire fat guys, the journalists tiptoed through cardboard shacks populated by penniless homeless men. Instead of boozy SoBe parties, they…
Miami-Dade PD could spy with gunshot detection system
The gunman squeezes the trigger on his Glock. His victim slumps to the ground. And without a cop in sight, the murderer thinks he’s in the clear. But the light poles are listening. In seconds, small sensors determine the location of the sound and send it to police headquarters. Microphones…
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Miami porn companies create charities for children
We at Riptide fancy ourselves open-minded and nonjudgmental. But when a charity called Child Foundation, Inc. is registered to the same office as a website called TeenBangBus.com, well, it grabs our attention. The links between three local nonprofits — Child Foundation, American Love & Appreciation Fund, and the Click Charity…
Bill Nelson Seems Boring Enough to Win Reelection
Bill Nelson is now Florida’s longest serving state-wide elected politician, and yet a surprising amount of Floridians don’t think much of him one way or another. The guy has sat in the Senate for 11 years, and mastered a brand of bland Democratic moderation that doesn’t piss off Republicans too…
Fighting Cocks and 4,000 Coconuts Get Three Miami Men Arrested
Three Miami men were arrested after their van was pulled over in the Keys and police found the vehicle stuffed with tons of cocks and nuts. Not only had the men stolen about 4,000 coconuts, they also had two roosters that appeared to be used for cockfighting locked in crates…
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305 Photo of the Day: Best Little Brothel Bus
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James Jones Won’t Resign With Heat, Elects For Free Agency
The Miami Heat may be in danger of losing one of their hometown players. James Jones has informed the organization that he won’t be exercising the player option in his contract and will instead chose to become a free agent, reports The Miami Herald…
How Did You Survive The Great Three-Hour iPhone Outage?
A modern-day nightmare swept greater Miami-Dade yesterday afternoon. AT&T’s 3G cell service completely ceased to work, leaving thousands of iPhone and other smartphone addicts without on-the-go access to their precious, precious Twitters, Foursquare and Words With Friends. The unimaginable horror was almost too much to bear. We’re frankly just relieved…
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Havana Hosts Its First Independent Gay Pride Parade, Sort Of
It’s quite a human rights paradox. Next month, the Cuban parliament will discuss a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on the Communist isle, yet GLBT citizens are, like all Cubans, discouraged from gathering and expressing any sort of political message that doesn’t toe the party line. Though, efforts to…