You know what’s great about ambulances? You don’t have to drive them yourself. If you’re seriously injured enough, you call 911. They send one your way. The paramedics strap you in and take you to the hospital. This shouldn’t be new info for anyone, but apparently Hubert Lee Credit didn’t get…
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The story of the 2012 presidential primary seems to be one of surging candidates quickly falling down to earth, with one, Mitt Romney, remaining consistently stable. It’s beginning to look like Newt Gingrich might join Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain as a discarded frontrunner. After taking an astronomic…
The domestic flight baggage carousel at Miami International Airport always makes us nervous. We’ve arrived in one piece. We’re ready to finally get to our destination. The only thing left to do is collect our luggage. Why isn’t it on the carousel? Oh my God, someone could have just randomly…
We just usually read Parade magazine for Howard Huge cartoons and “Ask Marilyn,” but the magazine actually keeps a somewhat frequently updated list of the world’s worst dictators. For the first time this year, Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez made the top ten list…
Miami may be some sort of strange Banana Republican in and of itself, but, man, the rest of Florida makes us look positively sane in comparison. When Vice magazine called it “a violent, dong-shaped netherworld” earlier this year they weren’t over-exaggerating. In fact, in 2011 Riptide inauguration what’s become probably…
Back in 2009, 62-year-old Ohio resident Nick Christie traveled down to Florida to unwind and spend time with his brother. Christie has been showing signs of depression and erratic behavior, but perhaps the warm Florida sun would help him. Christie however never returned to Ohio. He died after being strapped…
Michael Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats may have lost to the Miami Heat last night, but MJ has officially won something else that’s hot and from Miami: the hand of Yvette Prieto. According to Charlotte news station WCNC, Jordan asked Prieto to marry him on Christmas Eve. Obviously, she said yes…
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Miami’s great economic savior: wealthy Brazilians. The South Americans are visiting the area in droves and buying up everything in sight, including empty condos, fancy clothes, and fast cars. Though, one has to wonder why they prefer coming from their sun drenched, subtropical, Latin-flair cities to ours. The New York…
The Chevrolet Corvette is a proud icon of the American motor industry. It is not built to be a crash barrier for drunk drivers, yet that’s exactly what happened at Tropical Chevy in Miami Shores earlier this month. In the early hours of December 14th a drunk driver lost control…
If there’s any justice in the world, hopefully Patrick White got thrown in a cell with a crook with a runny nose.White, 31, was arrested and charged with battery at the Jacksonville International Airport after attacking and accosting a woman who had dared to cough while aboard his flight…
Lunch might be the favorite school subject of many children across the state, and a new bill filed by a Boca Raton Democrat would allow corporations to capitalize on that by letting them buy the naming rights to public school cafeterias…
Richard Nixon’s best friend was a sharp dressing and charming Cuban-American businessman named Bebe Rebozo. Rebozo lived alone for much of his life in a well-decorated Key Biscayne home (Nixon eventually moved next door), once worked as a flight attendant, enjoyed show tunes, and after an early marriage that was,…
Ligunson Edmond and Jacques Davis Jean, both 21, have been arrested on charges that they raped an eight-month pregnant woman in North Miami on December 22nd. Edmond has already admitted to police that he forced the woman to have sex with him…
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To hear the story repeated from fine bastions of journalism like the New York Times, NPR, and CNN, you’d be lead to believe that the chimpanzee who played Cheetah, Tarzan’s ape companion in the famed 1930s movie series, recently died in an animal sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Florida. Don’t believe…
Aside from that dark and confusing year he played for the Jets, Jason Taylor may be the most beloved Miami Dolphin since Dan Marino, but the 37-year-old is reportedly preparing to hang up his cleats for good after Sunday’s game against those New York Jets. Taylor put in 15 years…
Not many 6’2″ rookies can manage to steal the spotlight away from a collection of future Hall of Famers in their second NBA game ever. Not many 28th place draft picks manage to be the main man responsible for saving the defending East Conference Champs from an embarrassing fourth quarter…
A late entry in the race for the title of 2011’s most depressingly, shake-your-faith in humanity, horrible shell of a human: Christopher P. Smith, 32, of Kissimmee, Florida. Smith’s twisted tale is one of adultery, manipulation, and, most sickening of all, pedophilia, according to police.Margaret Ann O’Neill, 26, a woman…
About a month after the hazing-linked death of FAMU band member Robert Champion, Miami-area U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson has announced plans to introduce a bill that would clamp down on hazing on a federal level…
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