There’s a reason we don’t see outspoken actor Sean Penn visiting Miami more often. Probably because the Hollywood star who keeps warm company with the likes of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro would be accosted every time he walks down the street. Kind of like he was by former co-star…
Christopher Tyrie Brantley, 19, is behind bars today after allegedly stabbing a puppy to death with a kitchen knife. The Broward man suffers from a mental illness according to CBS Miami…
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When former Coral Park Senior High standout Arrington Jenkins chose to play for Florida State University over his hometown team Miami, he told an ESPN reporter: “I don’t have to worry about the ‘U’ anymore. I want to put them in the ground for the next four years.”However, after getting…
The sports radio airwaves beaming through South Florida have certainly been a bit more tame over the past few weeks while shock jock Sid Rosenberg has been suspiciously missing from his WQAM show. The official word was he was taking personal days, which seemed awfully strange considering it’s the middle…
In 1937, aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart made an unpublicized flight from Oakland, California, to Miami, Florida. Once safely landed in Miami, Earhart announced she’d once again attempt to circumnavigate the globe after technical problems stymied an earlier attempt that year. The rest is aviation history. Now, nearly 75 years later, another Amelia Earhart…
Crank up the Kenny Loggins and pour a Tom Collins into the ocean for our fallen yacht homies. Four mega-yachts went up in smoke and down into the ocean after a fire erupted at the Grove Harbour Marina in Coconut Grove early Saturday morning. Luckily nobody was seriously injured, but…
The autopsy of deceased FAMU marching band drum major Robert Champion has been completed, and his death has officially been ruled a homicide. Medical examiners ruled Champion’s death was “the result of hemorrhagic shock due to soft tissue hemorrhage, incurred by blunt force trauma sustained during a hazing incident.”…
Former City of Miami assistant fire chief Veldora Arthur has been sentenced to 57 months, or just under five years, in prison after being convicted for her part in a $10 million mortgage fraud scheme. After release, she’ll serve three years of probation.Arthur faced as many as 20 years in…
Tomas Bautista will serve one year and one day behind bars for finger-banging his roommate’s Chihuahua in February. Bautista was charged with animal cruelty, because the state’s new anti-bestiality law did not go into affect until a few months after he committed the crime. Bautista pleaded no contest to the…
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Remember last year around this time? You know, when the Heat were actually playing basketball. Not very good basketball mind you, and fans thought that coach Erik Spoelstra was sure to get a pink slip? Well, he managed to turn things around and get the team to the Finals, and…
Don King, a man known for his boxing promotion and superawesome hair, wanted to give back to the South Florida community. So he loaded a truck full of 30,000 turkeys and hoped to give them to families in need throughout the region. This, of course, being South Florida, the truck…
Perhaps she was looking to give someone the key to her heart, but instead on a recent date a Florida woman gave her paramour the keys to her car during a movie. He ended up stealing the vehicle, and when she called him, he laughed about it. Talk about a…
Two thousand eleven is almost over, and some of us had better years than others. For most, this year seemed like a downer. But, hey, at least you didn’t accidentally spend almost $20K at a strip club, get recalled from office, or embarrass yourself on national television. It really could…
So a St. Pete Times reporter decided to call up Sen. Jack Latvala, the Republican chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, and asked him about the possibility of the Florida legislature passing a ban on talking on cellphones while driving.”You know the NRA saying that if they want my gun…
Looking to make a donation to a nonprofit organization that will put your dollars to good use? Well, apparently your best bet in the entire United State of America is right down in Coral Gables. Worth magazine in conjunction with nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator has named the University of Miami…
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Deer antlers: Not only are they the dream accouterment of any hunter’s living room or an annoyingly prevalent feature of the mid-’00s hipster aesthetic, but also they’re a great way to beat up your ex-boyfriend! Just ask Zephyrhills resident Chelsea Harrison. As soon as she gets out of jail anyway…
There were a bit of murmurs earlier this month that certain powers that be within the Republican Party were so disenchanted with the current crop of presidential candidates they were throwing around the idea of persuading a big-name candidate to enter the race at the last minute. The biggest of…
If the American electorate was made up of straws, gold dealers, and that odd type of overly enthusiastic libertarian (who just happens to ignore the more socially progressive parts of being a true libertarian), Ron Paul would certainly be elected emperor for life. Of course, that’s not how American Democracy…
Rumors are swirling that Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is looking to bring former Kansas City Chiefs president Carl Peterson on in an executive role. Basically Peterson would serve as a new Bill Parcells of sorts, taking a top executive role but leaving the day-to-day running of the team up…
