Apparently in Myrtle Beach they do prostitution a bit differently. Instead of putting women on street corners, they have two-bit pimps stand in driveways like kids trying to hawk lemonade by waving down cars and randomly asking drivers if they’re looking for some paid sex. Unfortunately for 29-year-old Caid Kennedy Nobles,…
This past August, Emerson Callum and Lavont Flanders Jr., a former Miami Beach police officer, were arrested for allegedly luring women to a warehouse under the pretense they were setting up modeling auditions. They then drugged the women, police said, and Callum would rape them while Flanders videotaped the assault…
It only makes sense that Michael Lohan, the man whose total lack of basic human and parenting skills gives us some empathy for the hot mess that is Lindsay Lohan, now makes his home in Florida. It is, after all, a sunny place for shady people, and Lohan was arrested…
Even though her husband has been out of office for nearly a year, former first lady of Florida Carole Crist still makes the gossip pages. First there was the news that she was registered as a Democrat and was openly asking top Democrats if her hubby Charlie Crist had any chance…
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Rina has now officially reached hurricane-strength winds. The storm is currently trudging slowly off of the coast Honduras in the Caribbean Sea, with Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. It’s way too early to predict with any certainty its ultimate path, but the storm is expected to strengthen over the next few days…
Jerome Emery Pearson, a Hialeah resident and former math teacher at a Broward public school, has plead guilty to possession of child pornography after a gigantic stash of lewd images were found on his personal laptop computer. Pearson was initially released on bond, but couldn’t keep away from porn. He…
In a little over two years, Chris Dorworth will be the second-most powerful man in Tallahassee. Barring some sort of momentous Democratic take over, the Republican has already been elected to serve as Speaker of the House from 2014 to 2016. Funny thing is, back in 2009, Dorworth was nearly…
A police chase almost turned tragic last night when the driver of a stolen SUV hit two young boys playing in front of their grandfather’s house.The incident occurred last night near NW 39th Place in Miami Gardens. The suspect has stolen the vehicle and was driving at speeds up to…
One of Florida’s signature roller coaster thrills has been halted permanently after an incident this summer in which a man lost an eye. The Dragon Challenge at the Harry Potter section of Universal Studio’s Islands of Adventure park for years launched two roller coaster simultaneously. The peak thrill came when…
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The fallout from this morning’s take down of Marco Rubio’s supposed family story in the Washington Post has been fierce and fast. First, The Miami Herald came to Rubio’s defense and challenged some of the Post’s assertions. Now Rubio has penned his own editorial for Politico and calls the story…
The great college football blight in Florida continues as not a single team from the state is in the AP poll. Before the release of the week seven poll, that hadn’t happened since 1982. Though, while the Big 3 — University of Florida, Florida State, and University Miami — now…
Jealousy is about as pretty as a bag full of used condoms.A woman in Gainesville stands accused of verbally assaulting a female store clerk at a Kangaroo convenience store, dumping a bag of used condoms on the counter, slinging one at the clerk, and, for good measure, exposing all of…
A jail transport van was driving inmate Drew Gabrish, 50, from Key West to Martin County. When guards stopped at the Miami-Dade jail earlier this week to pick up another inmate they found Gabrish dead in the back of the van. He had committed suicide by choking himself on a…
Several employees at the satellite Miami-Dade courthouse in Coral Gables fell mysteriously ill yesterday. HazMat crews evacuated the building, and the courthouse will remain closed today. The building had just been fumigated with pesticides earlier in the month, but officials are not entirely sure what caused the employees to fall…
Adam Hasner is banking heavily on Tea Party support in his quest to secure the Republican nomination to take on Bill Nelson in 2012, but in a fundraising letter today he unleashed a very angry rant against another group of political protesters. Hasner pulled no punches in attacking, and in…
Florida will add two new congressional districts in 2012, and the Senate Reapportionment Committee is meeting to determine where to place those districts. One of the leading plans includes carving out a new district in Orange, Osceola and Polk counties that would create a strongly Hispanic-leading district.Well, Republican state Senator…
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Obviously the big dictator news of the day is the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Though, Gaddafi’s close ally in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, chose today to make a big public announcement that he’s free of cancer. Not that the announcement is likely to do away with chatter about his health…
The University of Miami is getting into the hotel business withplans to construct an 18-story hotel as part of its Life Science and Technology Park. However, given its Overtown location, it will not target regular tourists. The hotel will include conference space and hopes to attract medical conferences and provide…
Back in 2009, surveillance cameras caught four men breaking into an Opa-Locka barber shop and robbing and pistol whipping local rapper Brisco (né British Alexander Mitchell). The thieves made off with around $40,000 in jewelry, including chains and a watch. Now, a little over two years later the first of…
