Listen, if you’re going to be a parent who occasionally smoke a bit of pot that’s your business. Just never decide to get high while you should be actually parenting. Especially, when your toddler-aged kids are, say, sitting in a bathtub with the water running. Yes, Miami-Dade police have arrested…
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The theft of chicken nuggets should always be taken very seriously as those things are just ridiculously delicious, and depriving someone else of those precious fried meat bits is as an un-American petty crime as imaginable. Luckily, the devious criminal plan of two South Florida men, Sir Lawrence Scipio Dixon,…
Hot on the hells of an alleged $189,000 receipt racked up during a Cinco de Mayo party at the Tryst nightclub in the Wynn resort in Las Vegas comes rumors that LeBron James once racked up an even bigger bill at XS, one of the Wynn’s other nightclub. $171,973 to…
Gabrielle Redfern could probably pull it off, but If Carlos Gimenez, Roosevelt Bradley, Marcelo Llorente, Julio Robaina, or José “Pepe” Cancio hit the streets of downtown Miami at 2 a.m. and went to a couple of clubs they’d probably get looked at like police, creeps, narcs, drunk lawyers, or weirdos…
The indictment that lead to the arrests of Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, the Imam of a Miami mosque, and his two sons for allegedly providing material support to the Pakistani Taliban also named three other suspects that are believed to be at large in Pakistan. Amini Khan, Khan’s daughter…
A Bahamian hot tub death trap is at the center of a bizarre and tragic lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court. The family of 33-year-old John Van Hoy Jr. is suing the Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort after they allege Van Hoy was sucked into the drain of the hotel’s whirlpool and…
The father-and-son Miami imams charged this weekend with aiding Pakistani terrorists will make their first appearance in court today at 1:30 pm as South Florida’s Muslim community tries to come to grips with the accusations.The Miami Herald says that the case against Hafiz and Izhar Khan is actually a bright…
Growing up in communist Poland, Bozena Sawa secretly idealized the glittering luxury hotels that dotted capitalist Western Europe and the United States. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, she moved to New York and fell in love with the gilded Four Seasons on Fifth Avenue.So she couldn’t believe her…
A document nutty with consumer outrage crossed our desk last week. In mid-April, a Florida woman — due to the sensitive nature of this topic, we’ll just call her Consuela — sent a complaint to Carnival Cruise Lines’ Doral headquarters documenting the nasty saga that was her groups’ recent trip…
Well that was rough. Apparently Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau screened Hoosiers for his team while Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra showed his guys Atlas Shrugged prior to their Game 1 Eastern Conference Finals showdown. Because the Heat were out muscled, and out-hustled by the swarming Bulls, resulting in the…
A father and his two sons in South Florida have been arrested and charged with financially supporting the Pakistani Taliban. Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, the Imam of the Flagler Mosque, was charged with providing “material support” to the terrorist organization by federal prosecutors. His son, Irfan Khan, 37,…
Michael Bueno, a mentally ill man who had become somewhat notorious in his North Miami neighborhood for always asking strangers who passed him by for 50 cents, has been shot and killed by a Miami-Dade Police officer. The force says that Bueno was seen brandishing a knife when he was…
Republicans up in Tallahassee are so used to giving money to things associated with Miami-based power lobbyist Ron Book that they ended up giving $1.5 million to a nonprofit run by his daughter Lauren Book that she didn’t even ask for or apparently need. The odd moves came as those…
Those half-empty condo buildings that once haunted downtown Miami are slowly filling up, thanks in large part to foreign buyers taking advantage of the low prices and weak dollar. Though, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks that what the area needs right now are tons more condo…
For most of us, if we even bother accepting our mother’s friend request of Facebook we keep her under strict privacy control. Very few of us develop such close Facebook bonds with our mothers that we decide posting a video of our two dogs killing a pig on our pages…
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When President Barack Obama wasn’t talking about important things like Cuba in his interview this week with Univision, he took time to discuss the very serious topic of Bulls vs. Heat. We’ll give you one guess as to what team the former Illinois senator is placing his wager…
“Rick Scott for president? It’s possible,” blares a headline for a non-story in today’s St. Petersburg Times. Oddly, the third sentence in the story is a quote from Scott saying, “I’m not running for president,” yet the Times political editor Adam C. Smith manages to drag the story on for…
President Obama has rolled back some of the strictest policies regarding Cuba, including easing travel restrictions and allowing for more remittances. Though, in an interview with Univision this week the president made clear that he will not normalize relations with the nation until Cuba makes “significant changes.”…
The Miami Hurricanes didn’t scoop up much quarterback talent in their 2011 draft class, but seemed to be making up for it in transfer. Back in February, Tate Foricer announced he was transferring from Michigan to Miami, but now ESPN is reporting that Forcier won’t be joining the team after…
Police in Puerto Rico are analyzing the contents of three plastic bags containing a white powdery substance that were found on the body of Juan Leonardo Aviles Otero, the Miami-Dade Police officer who was fatally shot along with his sister on the island at 3 a.m. Thursday. Another, empty envelope…
