For a while it seemed like GOP Rep. David Rivera may as well have been named Teflon Dave. No matter what accusations were flung at him, nothing stuck.Now, it looks like he’s running out of luck. The Florida Commission on Ethics has found that Rivera broke state laws by failing…
So remember when Mitt Romney showed up at the University of Miami looking a little brown around the face? A make-up artist ended up taking the blame, saying that he used a bit of MAC foundation that was too dark on the candidate.Well, sources who spoke to BuzzFeed says there’s…
Calls for the head of owner Stephen Ross have died down as the Miami Dolphins have magically managed not to completely blow their season so far. Hell, technically we’re sixth in the AFC in the playoff standings!But over the past two years Jordan Zimmerman, an advertising honcho and limited partner…
Just under one million Floridians have already cast their ballots in the presidential elections, and the number is closing in on the 10 percent total mark of all Florida registered voters. So far, though, Republicans have turned in more absentee ballots than Democrats, but their absentee advantage is significantly down…
The Transportation Security Administration was created in 2001 to keep us safe, but it turns out a handful of their employees are no better than common crooks. Since the TSA’s creation nearly 400 employees have been fired after being accused of stealing from passengers, and Miami International Airport leads the…
Ozzie Guillen came to Miami as the new Marlins manager just over a year ago. What followed was a Fidel Castro controversy, a lot of odd outbursts, and yet another season of typical Marlins disappointment. Now, with three years and $7.5 million left on his contract, the Marlins have officially…
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As per usual, Florida could play a decisive role in the upcoming presidential election, and at least Conan O’Brien thinks Floridians and Floridians alone can be trusted with deciding the fate of the White House for the next four years. Because, after all, this state is nothing but “a shining…
The Miami Dolphins’ former resident loudmouth is still exercising his lips as co-host of The Jorge Sedano Show on WQAM, and this morning dropped a bombshell. He claims he once saw Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps smoke a blunt at a South Beach club with rapper Young Jeezy…
Usually flashing your junk at a police officer is a guaranteed ticket to jail, but this is Florida and our citizens can find the weirdest exceptions to any rules.Police in Port St. Lucie received a call that a man was masturbating in a CVS parking lot, but the man avoided…
If you’ve ever tuned into 880 The Biz, you might have heard conservative radio host Edward Woodson railing against President Obama. If you’ve ever smoked weed, it might have been grown in Woodson’s home.Yes, according to GossipExtra.com, Woodson recently pleaded guilty to running a grow house and was sentenced to…
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Last year, the NBA’s general managers picked the Miami Heat to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder for the championship in their annual preseason poll. These guys know their stuff, obviously.This year they’re predicting the Miami Heat versus Los Angeles Lakers finals the world has been patiently waiting for ever since…
A naked woman who crashed a party and started yelling about the Antichrist was shot and killed by two off-duty police officers in the Tampa-area over the weekend. The woman has been identified as 42-year-old Inga Marie Swanson. Her boyfriend says that she was worried about the End Times…
Remember how the City of Miami made some controversial plans to allow protesters to gather in the Orange Bowl when Fidel Castro dies? Yeah, well, the city has never updated those plans even though the Orange Bowl was demolished and replaced with the Marlins Stadium.Don’t expect the city to make…
So, maybe you know that a man decided to run onto the field during the University of MIami-Florida State University football game this Saturday, but if you were watching the game on ABC you didn’t see what happened afterward.Well, the dude ended up getting tackled hard by security…
Wow, what opportune timing.After weeks of the rumor mill churning out reports of Fidel Castro’s ailing health, the retired Cuban dictator has reportedly made an appearance at Havana’s famed National Hotel and talked to hotel workers for about half an hour…
Meat had not passed the lips of Jacksonville City Council member Don Redman for thirty-five years. That’s not even a euphemism. Dude has been a solid vegetarian for three-and-a-half decades. Proving, however, that not all vegetarians are bleeding heart hippies, he decided to break his long-standing no meat policy by…
In 2008, the editorial boards of Florida’s four biggest newspapers all through their support behind President Obama. Well, in the past two days, the state’s two biggest papers offered their endorsements. The Saint Pete Times is sticking with President Obama in an endorsement that highlights his economic successes. In contrast,…
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Yesterday, ESPN ran a weird little piece of speculative fan fiction imagining the possibility of LeBron James ditching the Heat in 2014 to replace Kobe Bryant on the Lakers. It was a piece designed to cause controversy, more than, you know, report actual facts. …
We know that if you threaten the safety of a local police officer, they will probably shoot you. If you instruct your dog to attack them, they will probably shoot the dog. So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise by now that a bizarre traffic stop that…
