George Zimmerman has just lost his attorneys. Well, acutally his attorneys have lost track of him. They haven’t heard from him in days but know he’s been making recent moves against their advice. So basically they held a news conference today to say they’ve withdrawn from the case. …
Congratulations, Mitt Romney! You’ve won the least sought-after endorsement in the Republican Party. Perennially unpopular Florida Gov. Rick Scott officially endorsed Romney today just hours after Rick Santorum announced he was suspending his campaign — a move that finally leaves Romney as the unquestionable Republican nominee. …
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The scene inside a Greenacres townhouse might have been too extreme even for reality-TV exploitation shows such as Hoarders. After the home’s owner was taken to the hospital for health problems, authorities found 45 live cats, two dead cats, and mounds of garbage inside. Officials say it might be the biggest case of…
The family of George Zimmerman has stepped up its public defense, and one relative has sent a highly critical letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking why the Department of Justice has not arrested members of the New Black Panther Party movement. The group has publicly put out a bounty…
Ozzie Guillen has only spent five games as the Miami Marlins’ manager, and he’ll spend the next five at home. The team has announced that Guillen will be suspended for the next five games following the controversial remarks he made about Fidel Castro.Update: We have live coverage of the press…
A couple of Florida’s GOP congressmen, lead by first term Rep. Sandy Adams, read some crazy conspiracy theories on the Internet about how Obama was going to enslave us all into military conscription and forced labor, and decided to file an actual resolution about it. Obviously Allen West is involved…
“Home wrecker. Gold digger. Trifling.” That’s how next week’s Jet cover story on actress Gabrielle Union starts, but she would like to let you know, for the first time publicly, that she is not any of those things. She’s been the target of rumors and online scuffles ever since she…
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With two national championships and a Christian morals poster boy in Tim Tebow, it’s easy to look at Urban Meyer’s reign with the University of Florida Gators as some sort of shining example of the best of college football.A new report from the Sporting News suggests otherwise. Former players says…
Jacob David Hartley had been a dad for three weeks, but apparently didn’t have as much enthusiasm for his newborn son as he did for his Xbox. The 20-year-old Lakeland, Florida, resident stands accused of shaking his son to death after the child started crying while he was in the…
Democrats have finally found a candidate to take on vulnerable Republican incumbent congressman David Rivera. Her name is Gloria Romero Roses. She has no electoral experience, no name recognition, and doesn’t even live close to the district. Oh boy…
The Isiah Thomas era is officially over at FIU, and, well, the program still exists! So there’s something! Thomas’s stunt hiring didn’t irretrievably break the program. There’s still hope. Maybe FIU can hire some respected assistant from a larger program to help take the school to a new level. Or…
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Isiah Thomas has been fired from his job as head basketball coach at Florida International University, according to a statement released by the school. The former NBA star and New York Knicks coach brought big hopes with him to the campus but failed to deliver…
Zot Lynn Szurgot self identifies as “one of those magical people living between genders” according to her website, but was born as a biological male. It’s a point she made quite explicit when police say she walked out of her Gainesville, Florida, home on Wednesday completely nude and shook her…
For the third time in a month, a person has committed suicide at Aventura Mall. A still unidentified Hispanic woman in her mid-40s jumped to her death from atop a parking garage at the nation’s fifth largest shopping mall yesterday afternoon at around 2:30…
Apparently public shaming is the hottest parenting trend hitting Florida. Yet again angry parents have forced their kid to stand by a roadway holding a sign after problems at school. The latest kid to get the nontraditional punishment is Tarvon Young, a fifth grade student at the Richard Allen Leadership…
Ozzie Guillen is officially all of Miami’s drunk uncle. He’s the kind of guy who just mutters and complains and yells at your bratty cousins during the day on family trips, and spends the nights getting drunk by himself at the hotel bar.No, really, that’s exactly who he is…
When it comes to big time sports, Miami is primarily a football team thanks to the long and proud histories of the Miami Dolphins and Hurricanes. Oddly, our football teams are stuck in sucksville at the moment, and just about every other major sports team in the region is giving…
Miami-Dade County saw its population grow by 58,331 residents between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011 according to the United State Census. That adds up to the fourth largest numeric growth by any county in the country. These estimates also make Miami-Dade the seventh largest county by population in…
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