Nearly eight months after being placed on suspension, Charles Hurley, the chief of the Miami-Dade Public Schools police force, has officially been demoted. Now the hunt is on for his replacement…
Not exactly a good day for the Miami Police Department. Hours after announcing that they’ve fired a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man, another officer has now found himself in trouble.Twenty-seven-year-old officer Luis Hernandez has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery. Hernandez is a seven-year…
There’s nothing worse than butt dialing the wrong person at the wrong time, and even in those instances there’s probably few things worse than butt dialing 911 while talking about selling drugs.Matthew Dollarhide, 19 of Orange City, Florida, was driving a tow truck with two passengers when all three begin…
Tonight 30 Rock ends its seven-season run as one of America’s most acclaimed, and least watched sitcoms.Anyone who did watch though probably picked up on the show’s numerous references to Florida through out the years. There are some shows set in Florida that didn’t even mention our complicated penis of…
Officer Reinaldo Goyo, a City of Miami police officer who shot and killed Travis McNeill, a 28-year-old unarmed black man during a traffic stop, has been officially terminated from his position. Goyo had previously avoided criminal manslaughter charges after prosecutors declined to pursuit the case, however the City of Miami…
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The Miami Heat travel to Brooklyn tonight for the first time in franchise’s history, and apparently Nets players are hoping to amp up the rivalry. Nets forward Reggie Evans is even going as far as to suggest that the Heat’s 2012 title wasn’t legitimate because of the lock-out shortened regular…
Say bye, bye to Marco Rubio. He’ll no longer be your neighbor. The superstar junior Senator has decided to sell his Miami home, and will move his wife and kids to Washington, D.C. according to The Daily Caller…
Stop bitching about the Dolphins drafting tactics, because according to one analysis, the team has been the second most successfully in the NFL over the past five years. Of course, looking at the Dolphins overall success over the past five years makes you wonder exactly how accurate the analysis is…
So, remember that flap over Gov. Rick Scott adopting a shelter dog, naming it Reagan, using it for campaign publicity, and then dumping it on another family as soon as he was inaugurated? Yes, we know it’s hard to keep Rick Scott scandals straight.Well, its appears to have cost Brian…
Bartolo Gelsomino, a 78-year-old Kendall resident, is facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly stabbing his 71-year-old wife to death after she refused to make him a burger. The elderly culprit then tried to cover up the crime by staging a break-in…
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We take for granted that the Dolphins own the allegiances of South Florida’s tri-county area, but in a state with three NFL teams, do you ever wonder where exactly Dolphins country begins to give way to areas dominated by fans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars?Well, Facebook has…
Karlie Tomica was booked into jail yesterday after the car she was driving struck and killed a man outside the Shelborne South Beach on Collins Avenue. She might not have been found so quickly if a Good Samaritan hadn’t followed her to an apartment building in Mid-Beach. Now, the witness’s…
If you watched the Miami Hurricanes’ historic thrashing of Duke on the basketball courts last week, you might have spotted a few lonely dots of blue among the sea of orange in the student section. To no one’s surprise, it turns out those Duke fans did not have a very good…
Reggie Bush may have been one of the bigger names on the Dolphins squad for the past two years, and may have racked up two seasons close to 1,000 yards, but don’t expect him to come back.Though Bush has stated he’d like to stay in Miami, it’s looking more and…
If you’re a college football recruit who is also a strip club enthusiast, your best bet is to sign with the University of Miami. Failing that, you can always go to FIU. Because really, no one wants to see strippers in Tuscaloosa or South Bend.So really, we’re never really that…
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LeBron James isn’t intimidated by much. The Heat’s championship run last season was a testament to that. Though, when the team traveled to the White House today to be honored by President Obama, James seemed pretty starstruck and amazed he was actually being honored at the White House…
The Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball team wrapped up their extraordinary week with a 71-47 drubbing of Florida State last night to remain undefeated in the ACC. Taken with their historic win over Duke on Wednesday, the ‘Canes were rewarded handsomely in both the AP and USA Today Coaches’ polls…
Collins Avenue came to a standstill this morning after a man was struck and killed by a car in front of the Shelborne South Beach. The driver took off but was followed by a witness and later arrested…
So, it turned out that those “Satanists” who announced that they were rallying in favor of Rick Scott were really actors for a mockumentary about “the nicest Satanic cult in the world.” Though it may have been fiction, the rally still went down as planned this week on the steps…
