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Miami Lakes Councilman Nelson Hernandez accused of using Facebook to skirt Sunshine Laws
Deaths at Strax raise questions about the safety of cheap plastic surgery
Deaths at Strax Rejuvenation raise questions about the safety of cheap nips and tucks
His House in Foreclosure, Miami Springs Mayor Zavier Garcia Offers Heat Tickets for Sale UPDATED
In April, Miami Springs Mayor Zavier Garcia was swept into office with a record-breaking war chest and promises of fiscal responsibility. What voters didn’t know was that Garcia, whose $167,000 home has been in foreclosure proceedings since 2009, owes more than $290,000 on the 1,136-square-foot house he shares with his…
Shaq Finally Retires from Basketball
As the Miami Heat are on the hunt for the second NBA Championship, the big man who helped them secure their first has announced his retirement from professional basketball. After 19 seasons in the NBA, four championships rings, 15 trips to the All-Star Game, an MVP award and six teams,…
305 Photo of the Day: Blossom Boy
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Raymond Herisse IDed as Man Shot By Police During Urban Beach Weekend; Over 100 Shots Fired By Police
Twenty-two-year-old Raymond Herisse has been identified as the man shot and killed by police during an early morning Memorial Day weekend incident in the streets of Miami Beach, according to CBS4’s Jim DeFede. Herisse had a long criminal history and had been arrested numerous times before in Palm Beach and…
Elton John and Rick Scott Spar Over AIDS Drug Assistance Program
Singer Elton John is just the latest in a long line of critics who have a bone to pick with Florida governor Rick Scott. Through his Elton John AIDS Foundation, the singer wrote a letter to Scott urging the governor not to make further cuts to the state’s AIDS Drug…
The Philippines’ Vice President is Praying the Heat Win
The NBA Finals feels like Miami versus the World, but there’s at least an entire other nation rooting wildly for the Heat: The Philippines. Yes, Coach Erik Spoelstra’s mother is a native of the Pacific nation, and Spoelstra is the first Filipino-American head coach of any major North American professional…
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Miami-Dade May Name Street “Marco Rubio Way”
Senator Marco Rubio has only been in office for a few months, but Miami-Dade County may soon name a street in his honor. Commissioner Rebecca Sosa is sponsoring a resolution that would rename a stretch of Southwest 15th Street between 57th Avenue and 67th Avenue as “Marco Rubio Way.”…
‘Down With Castro’ Fliers Earn Cuban Activists Five-Year Prison Terms
Life in La Habana has been inching toward change lately. These days, it’s perfectly legal to serve up to 50 people in your restaurant, to own your own barber shop and to spend all afternoon loading clunky dial-up porn on your home computer.Still most definitely illegal, though: Tossing fliers reading…
Mike Haridopolos Kicked Off Conservative Talk Show For Being Waffling Idiot
Rep. Paul Ryan’s Republican budget plan, which among other things essentially replaces Medicare with a voucher program, is shaping up to a be a big issue in the 2012 election, and one would expect any candidate, especially running for a Federal legislative office, to have an opinion on it. Florida…
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Red State Activists Call For End to the Entire City of Miami Beach
In reaction to the last 30 years of crime, drug trafficking and sexual provocativeness within the City of Miami Beach, a coalition of good, white Christian activists from a collection of Red States plan to send a letter today to local, state and federal leaders demanding that the entire city…
Dallas Mavericks vs. Miami Heat Game 1: Winning Time
If you’re a fan of low scoring games, low-percentage shooting and sleep depravity, then Game 1 of the NBA Finals was the game for you!LeBron James scored 24 while Dwyane Wade added 22 and Chris Bosh went for 19 as the Miami Heat took down the Dallas Mavericks 92-84 to…
Miami Herald‘s Moving Sale
Now that the Herald is planning its move from its seaside lair to a third-floor Homestead office (above a Palacio de Jugos! Yes!), they’re looking to unload some stuff. Here are a few of the items we’re going to be looking for on Craigslist…
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Ladies of Twitter, Is Jose Canseco Your Night In Baseball Armor?
José Canseco needs a woman. The Cuban American baseball player, who grew up in Miami before juicing harder than a Cuisnart and winning two World Series, has lately been taking to Twitter in search of a wife. He’s the total package — a six-time MLB all-star and member of the…
Mayor Bower: Miami Beach Can’t Do Anything About Urban Beach Weekend
Miami Beach is largely helpless to stop Memorial Day partiers from coming to town for Urban Beach Weekend, which saw seven injured and one killed in police-related shootings this year, city Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said Tuesday afternoon. According to police, more than 400 were arrested.”There is no organizer, no…
Heat-Mavericks Rivalry Getting Religulous
These days, everyone is weighing in on the rivalry between the Miami Heat and the Dull-ass Mavericks. Even God.As the Pope’s duly appointed representative in South Florida, Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski has astutely wagered that the Heat will take the NBA title. Unsurprisingly, his Dallas counterpart, Bishop Kevin Farrell,…
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LeBron James Defends Jim Tressel
LeBron James may be on the brink of winning Miami an NBA Championship. Man that’ll feel almost as good as that time the Miami Hurricanes beat Ohio State in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl to take home the BCS Championship. Oh wait…James is seriously testing our Miami sports fan heart strings…
Teen Narrowly Escapes Death After Daring Girlfriend to Shoot Him
Nineteen-year-old Gabriel Mendigutia wanted his girlfriend to shoot him in the chest with a pellet gun, and she did. The pellet Alley Castro, 19, shot ended up going right through Mendigutia’s heart, but thanks to a rare heart anatomy he was able to survive…
Matt Drudge Using Urban Beach Weekend to Stoke Racial Flames
The Drudge Report still reigns supreme as an influential aggregator of right wing-leaning news and is run by the increasingly reclusive Matt Drudge out of his home that, as of last report, is somewhere in an undisclosed portion of Miami. Unsurprisingly, he’s decided to blow up the incidents on Miami…
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305 Photo of the Day: Light and Write
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