In February 2011 near Homestead, a Department of Transportation worker discovered an alligator with a man’s body in its mouth, thrashing him back and forth. It didn’t turn out to be a case of a man going for a swim in the wrong pond. After investigating, authorities determined the man had…
You obviously haven’t been in Florida long if you haven’t had a drunk man threaten to contract hit men from his home country to kill you. It’s at least a pretty common occurrence here in Miami. Apparently it happens in Orlando too.Of course, if you’ve just been arrested for DUI,…
Florida’s economy might not exactly be fully recovered, but one of our main industries broke a record last year. Tourists spent a combined $71.8 billion in Florida in 2012. That’s an all-time record, and a 6.8 percent increase from 2011, which was also a record year…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
During his political life, Hugo Chavez took more than a few pages out of the playbook of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, and the emulation will continue even in death.To this day, Lenin’s embalmed body is still on display in Red Square in Moscow. Now, acting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro announced…
Charles Hurley keeps dropping. The former chief of the Miami-Dade Schools Police was suspended from the position back in May after reports he had sexually harassed female officers. He was officially demoted in January, and now its come to light that a few days later, he turned in his resignation…
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LeBron James is about to make it official. Savannah Brinson, James’ longtime partner and baby mama, will officially become Mrs. James this September. According to TMZ, the two have sent out save-the-date cards for their planned wedding in San Diego…
It’s not too difficult to imitate the artwork of Damien Hirst. Paint some circles on a canvas, throw some crystal on a skull, or encase a big-ass animal in a tank of formaldehyde and call it a day. But you didn’t think of it first, did you? Which is at…
We were perusing Complex’s “50 Best Strip Clubs in America” with a bit of disgust. The mag rattles off multiple clubs in places like Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Pompano Beach, and we were just sitting there thinking, The hell, you not gonna put some Miami clubs on this list? There’s…
Just weeks after two Metrorial security guards were caught on video roughing up photography-rights activist Carlos Miller, another Metrorail security guard has been recorded yanking an elderly woman off the train for singing gospel music.Emma Anderson, age 82, had broken into some impromptu gospel singing when a guard decided to…
State Sen. Audrey Gibson, a Democrat from Jacksonville, has drawn the ire of gun rights groups after introducing a bill that would require anyone who wishes to buy ammunition in Florida to complete an anger management class. The bill would also require a three-day waiting period for the sale of…
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The Miami Dolphins are failing miserably in their efforts to convince the public to fund half of the $400 million proposed upgrades at their stadium. A new poll shows that 73 percent of Miami-Dade resident oppose the idea, with not a single group, not even residents who live near the…
Taiwan’s NMATV is known for bizarre CGI takes on current events, but its take on the death of Hugo Chávez is bonkers even by the network’s standards. It involves the Venezuelan president in ghost form, a devil-horned George W. Bush, the former pope in a Hawaiian shirt, and, of course,…
OK, meme over. The Harlem Shake officially died yesterday in the Florida Senate.Yes, our legislators took on the popular meme, but not everything went well. Apparently, Republican Sen. David Simmons decided not to partake and got yelled at by a colleague who shouted, “C’mon, Simmons! For God’s sake, dance.”…
The Minnesota Timberwolves are apparently some sort of semiprofessional basketballing concern located in South Canada that someone has generously allowed to play on the same level as the Miami Heat. Their 20-37 record puts them in dead-last place in the Western Conference, but that apparently hasn’t stopped them from taking…
A mailbox in Miami got an unwelcome delivery this morning. After receiving reports of an explosion, authorities discovered that an “acid bomb” had gone off in a mailbox.At least it wasn’t a bill! Amirite, fellow nonrich people? Bills. Those things just suck, huh?…
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With news that a second sinkhole has opened a mere two miles from the Tampa-area site where last week a man died after being swallowed by a sinkhole that formed under his home, you might be worried the entire state is sinking. Well, as you should know, Miami is a…
There’s the kind of extreme couponing you see on that TLC show, and then there’s the kind of extreme couponing that happens in Florida Walmarts. The main difference apparently being that the latter involves handguns.Mary Frances Alday, a 61-year-old, was arrested after she pulled out a handgun at a Crawfordville…
Florida is officially home to 31 billionaires according to the latest Forbes list (and that doesn’t even count the ones who have second …or third … or fourth homes here), but Miami Heat owner and Carnival Cruises CEO Micky Arison is the richest of them all. Forbes estimates the 63-year-old…
