Michele Traverso, the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway, made his first appearance in court this morning and voluntarily submitted to a drug test. Despite previous arrests for possession of marijuana and cocaine, Traverso’s drug test came back clean…
Yesterday, LeBron James said he could one day see himself playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers again. Predictably, that didn’t go over too well with his current fans here in Miami, so James is on damage control today and promises he loves us and won’t leave us. Yet, anyway…
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Sometimes we really worry about the state of Florida’s youth. Kids today are so dumb they can’t even get high correctly.A 15-year-old boy in Daytona Beach, Florida, recently got in trouble for stealing a tomato plant, which he only swiped because he thought it was a marijuana plant…
It almost seems as obvious as saying that Florida is sunny, or that it has a lot of oranges, but a new study confirms that we live in the fourth most corrupt state in the union.University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public…
A: “Did you hear about the two chicks who got really drunk at a bar?”B: “That doesn’t sound like much of a story.”A: “Well, they ran out of beer money and tried to flash other patrons for cash.”B: “Ah, how resourceful.”A: “But no one took them up on the offer.”B:…
Oh, sure, the Miami Marlins have got a loaded new roster, an expensive new home, and new logos and uniforms of divisive aesthetic quality. Hell they’ve even got a new name. None of that matters now. It’s boring in comparison. Yawn. Do you hear us yawning?Clearly the most exciting MLB…
Florida’s Democratic Senator Bill Nelson has apparently really pissed off one furry. A man in a full plushy cow costume showed up at the State Capitol building this morning to declare that Nelson was in the business of “udder hypocrisy.”…
Aaron Cohen, one of the two bicyclist who were injured in an early morning hit-and-run car crash on the Rickenbacker Causeway on Wednesday morning, has died.Meanwhile, police have arrested the driver Michele Traverso, 25, after he turned himself in early this morning. Traverso was driving with a suspended license and…
Quentin Wyche stands accused of murdering FIU football running back Kendall Berry after an on-campus brawl in 2010, but his lawyer had hoped to get him off the hook without even facing trial. Wyche’s attorneys cited the controversial 2005 “Stand Your Ground” law signed by former Gov. Jeb Bush that…
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Yesterday, we asked if a mysterious woman with a stroller was responsible for setting fire to a Michaels arts and crafts stores down in Kendall. Well, police have now located the mystery woman according to CBS Miami. She denied any wrongdoing and, apparently, persuaded police enough of her innocence that…
Well, this certainly doesn’t disprove that weird rumor that popped up last month that LeBron James wasn’t always on the same page with Heat Prez Pat Riley and was planning an eventual return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. James has now said he could see himself one day playing in Cleveland…
Most moms are worried sick when their sons and daughters are deployed to serve in the Middle East. Not, apparently, Paula Barker of Volusia County. She’s been arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from her son while he was deployed with the Marines in Afghanistan…
Remember when the Miami Heat sucked? Good golly, did they suck. This was a team so horrible they didn’t get a single win until the 18th game of their inaugural 1988-89 season. In fact, the team’s all-time record had never been above .500. Yep, when taking into consideration every single…
It’s not so much that neighbors in the Upper Eastside of Miami want the Tokyo Valentino closed simply because it’s a gay club. In fact, they’re more upset that it may not actually be quite such a proper gay club. They think the club, which sounds like it was named…
Jackie Gleason may have thought, “As always, the Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world,” but the best place for a party pad in Miami? Apparently he thought that was on a golf course just outside of Hialeah. The television icon’s former home in the Country Club…
Last week a Michaels arts and crafts store in Kendall mysteriously caught fire. Authorities say three separate fires were set with an unknown flammable substance around the store. Police don’t have a suspect just yet, but would like to talk to this unidentified woman seen in security footage pushing a stroller through the store…
The corrosive work of cigarettes is supposed to be a slow thing, quietly eating away at your lungs as you puff away. Though, electric cigarettes are a whole other story. A Florida man is recovering after an e-cigarette exploded in his mouth and knocked out his front teeth and took…
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You can thank U.S. Costums and Border Patrol for the fact that you won’t blow your face off next time you’re trying to blow your weave out. The Department of Homeland Security agency recently seized a shipment of potentially killer hair dryers at the Port of Miami…
The University of Miami football team has long tried to harness the ancient ways of “Swag” to lead them to success, but now the school’s men’s basketball team is trying to master the antithetical powers of Zen. Yes, first year coach Jim Larranaga has decided to go all Deepak Chopra, and is motivating his…
