A 6-foot, 250-pound woman who allegedly jumped on a cop’s back was acquitted of battery on the Miami Police officer. The jury took only 28 minutes last Friday to find Sarah Myles not guilty after all three sergeants who were at the scene told different accounts of what happened.Police made…
It’s almost too crass to state, but it remains obvious that nothing mixes worse than kids and guns. Forget oil and water.A 4-year-old boy in Little Havana was accidentally shot in the groin after his 17-year-old half-brother found and then began playing with a rifle…
Florida’s particular method of sentencing prisoners to death has been deemed unconstitutional by Miami U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez today. The decision will not immediately strike down the law and didn’t find the death penalty in and of itself unconstitutional. Though, it will guarantee convicted murderer Paul H. Evans will…
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Gov. Rick Scott delivered terrific news for the state’s horny and technologically advanced teenagers today. He’s signed a bill that lowers the penalties for minors sending pictures of their junk to each other. Used to be kids could get charged with big-time felonies like distribution of child pornography. Problem was…
The only thing worse than your boat breaking down 25 miles offshore is having a drunk man show up to rescue it. It doesn’t end well. Just ask Lionel Casey and Lewis Dames of Fort Lauderdale.Their boat overheated off of Delray Beach Thursday night, so they radioed for help. Four…
It’s been almost two weeks since Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has made a public appearance. The 56-year-old leader, a television regular since he took power in 1999, hasn’t been heard from publicly since he was hospitalized in Cuba June 10 for a “pelvic abscess,” which is raising serious questions about…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been sexin’ his team’s championship trophy every night. He said that Dallas fans “punked the shit out of” Miami Heat fans, using a phrase mostly unknown outside of the 12-year-olds-hangin’-at-Orange-Julius crowd. And now, as reported by our sister paper, the Dallas Observer, he’s taken…
Perhaps the solution to Miami’s economic problems is the same as your abuela’s solution to boredom: telenovelas! Telemundo plans to shoot about 1,100 hours of telenovelas in Miami-Dade this year. That represents an investment of about $35 million and 550 new jobs…
Walter Chesnut just wanted to feed his family. So, since about February, he’s been on a unique stealing spree: he’s been taking manhole covers from the Wynwood neighborhood and selling them for about $25 each…
If you ask us, a private school that’s been busted defrauding the state of scholarship money for disabled kids probably doesn’t deserve a second chance. It most likely wasn’t the finest institution of learning anyway. The state clearly doesn’t agree. Yesterday, we published a feature story, “Rotten to the Core”,…
It was an unlikely win, but a win all the same. The Marlins stopped their 11-game losing streak last night with a 5-2 win over the Angels.Javier Vazquez pitched a scoreless 5 1/3 innings, which is pretty awesome considering he entered last night’s game with the worst ERA in the…
When Tony Crapp Jr. walked away from the Miami city manager job on Monday — leaving unsolved a gaping $40 million budget gap and a troubled police force — he got a nice parting gift from Magic City taxpayers.Crapp left City Hall with a handsome $155,000 severance package, Riptide has…
Newsweek has taken up the hard work of finding America’s 500 best high schools, and eight are in Miami-Dade County. According to the list, the appropriately named School for Advanced Studies is the best high school in Miami-Dade and the 28th best in the nation…
The Dallas Mavericks may have snatched another NBA championship away from Dwyane Wade, but they will never take away his reign as the league’s leading style MVP. The fashion-forward guard is in Italy for Milan Fashion Week, taking in the men’s shows by Versace, DSquared2, and Armani. Maybe he’s scouting…
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Police went looking for a burglary suspect on SW 69th Avenue yesterday afternoon and thought they saw him run into a home. They believed him to be armed and barricaded inside, according to WSVN. The “standoff” began around 2 p.m., and at 6, the SWAT team stormed the house.Nobody home…
Would you like to own a yacht that once hosted the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Mike Tyson? Would you like to to be the captain of a boat that was described as something like a Studio 54 of the seas for dorks complete with allegations of hosting “hired” party…
Apple might be one of the most powerful companies in the world, but it’s no match for the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board.Apple already has quaint little digs at 720 Lincoln Rd. but plans to move farther up the pedestrian mall to a location currently occupied only by the Gap…
Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado tried to sound a reassuring note this morning while introducing Miami’s third city manager in six months. The hiring of Johnny Martinez, previously assistant city manager, should reassure investors that Miami is on sound footing, Regalado said. “We have a functional government,” he said. “We have…
No one but sports gossips really believed the Miami Heat would completely retool itself this summer, but team president Pat Riley’s comments today should put all rumors to rest. No, he’s not coming back to coach. Yes, Erik Spoelstra’s job is safe. No, neither LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, nor Chris…
President Obama’s foreign policy perhaps deserves a closer look than the media is giving it. However, it might not have been the best idea for the Miami Herald’s TV critic and occasional libertarian columnist Glenn Garvin to open his column today about Obama’s “four wars” with a weird joke about the president’s…
