In a stunning series of accusations, Florida’s lieutenant governor, Jennifer Carroll, was allegedly caught in a compromising sexual position with a top female aide.Of course, the claims are coming from a former Carroll staffer who was fired and is facing third-degree felony charges for illegally taping Carroll’s conversations and supplying…
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América TeVe, the little Spanish-language, Hialeah Gardens-based scored a big interview with President Barack Obama, and it’s causing a major controversy.Obama told reporter Oscar Haza that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has not posed a “serious national security impact” to America in the past few year. Prominent Republicans including Florida Senator…
The Republican National Convention is coming to Tampa Bay in August, and along with it will comes thousands of protestors. Women’s rights group Code Pink, which isn’t shy about causing a commotion, is already planning its protest and is asking members to “bring their vagina to the RNC.” Yes, they’re…
Oh, great, yet another story of a naked Florida man who went out of his damn mind and decided he had a taste for human flesh.St. Augustine County Police found Jeremiah Aaron Haughee, 22, nude in a puddle of urine and broken glass in the early hours of Saturday morning…
A security guard at a Metrorial station in Hialeah had her gun and gun belt stolen from her at a Hialeah station early Tuesday morning. Police are now searching for the subject…
Well, South Florida is a retirement hot spot, so maybe it makes sense that all of these NBA veterans are showing interest in joining the Heat. Plus, the pre-retirement package comes with a pretty good shot at a ring or two.Following 36-year-old Ray Allen’s decision to jump ship and take…
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This past March, a secret memo from the anti-gay marriage group the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) leaked. It underlined plans to make “support for [traditional] marriage [editor: in their language, that means opposition to gay marriage] a key badge of Latino identity.” Of course, it’s odd that a group…
To outsiders, the marriage of 72-year-old Maciej Nowicki and 27-year-old Brygida Scheffler probably seemed like a real-life fairy tale — the kind of relationship where the pair could talk or not talk forever and still find things not to talk about. But when Nowicki accused Scheffler of cheating, the Polish trophy bride stabbed…
Like so many lonely, overtanned divorcées, Marlins Park might soon get its very own in-house pool boy.The Clevelander and Marlins Park have put out a call for local hunks who don’t mind walking around in nothing but swim trunks while watching baseball. It’ll be a far cry from the days…
Sup, bro? You totally into that crazy SUPing? You know, that stand-up paddleboarding? Well, the Conservation Commission Marine Patrol is about to cramp your style and issue a ticket if you decide to SUP in certain areas without a life jacket…
In what could have been a stupid idea but actually turned out pretty illuminating (especially from Florida’s point of view), Floating Sheep mapped each county in the United States by how often its residents tweet about beer compared with how often they tweet about church. Miami-Dade, unsurprisingly, came in strongly on…
First Lady Michelle Obama is stopping into town tomorrow, when she will speak to supporters of her husband’s re-election campaign at Barbara Goleman Senior High in Miami Lakes. However, two members of the Miami-Dade School Board, both registered Republicans, are taking issue with the event.”Don’t these liberals have boundaries?” member…
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Remember back in May when a Florida man was arrested for pulling out a gun in order to cut in the drive-thru line at a McDonald’s? Yeah, well apparently John Widmann III didn’t get the memo that brandishing a firearm at a fast-food restaurant is a quick recipe for arrest. He…
Despite the Christian Family Coalition’s regular habit of hurling hate-fueled messages towards the LGBT community and tirelessly working to strip gays of even the most basic rights, spineless local politicians desperate for any vote continue to legitimize the group by courting its members.Miami Gardens Mayor Shirley Gibson is currently running…
Unlike Riptide, most local news outlets do not take shots at other media in their stories. But local CBS affiliate WFOR took a big swipe at Fox affiliate WSVN in the opening paragraph of a story about Ray Allen. You might remember WSVN broke into its 11 p.m. newscast Thursday…
Imagine you’re an 11-year-old girl who lives with her deaf mother who is on disability, and while you’re on your summer vacation your own father breaks into your home and sets fire to your house, destroying almost all of your possessions, including your mattress and brand new computer. One girl…
Police are searching for the driver of a car that plowed into a man on North Miami Avenue on early Saturday morning, but didn’t even bother to stop. The victim was Carl Jones, a homeless man who was trying to cross the street and was killed on the scene. The…
He’s going from being part of one big three to backing up another. Ray Allen has decided to sign with the Miami Heat, according to Yahoo! Sports. The decision comes after Allen’s two-day trip to Miami to meet with team execs. He’ll be leaving the Boston Celtics, a team that…
Stephen Tilbury, 17, of DeLand, Florida, had a really, really bad ‘shroom trip. How bad? He decided that shooting himself directly in the forehead would be a better option than carrying on with the experience. Granted, no ‘shroom trip is really worth the possibility of death, but that just goes…
