After several years of decline, the Anti-Defamation League reports anti-Semitism is back on the rise in Florida. The group’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents report shows that more than 10 percent of anti-Semitic incidents in the nation in 2010 occurred in Florida and that the number of incidents rose in Florida by…
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As if the Dolphins needed more problems, it appears Chad Henne’s shoulder injury is pretty serious. Now multiple reports are claiming the Fins are downright desperate to bring in some new QB blood and have reached out to both David Garrard and Jake Delhomme…
College football players getting into fights on the field? It happens. College football players getting into fights in their downtime? Yeah, it happens too. College football players attacking former players of the opposing team immediately after a game? That has allegedly happened too, now. Reggie Myles, a former defensive back…
Donald Gartner of Port Richey, Florida, downed a six-pack of beer and a handful of Oxycontin Sunday night and proceeded to get arrested for causing a ruckus at his neighbor’s house. He found himself released from jail a few hours later, but wasn’t done raising hell. Shortly after being released,…
Las Vegas Sands, a casino resort company that counts Las Vegas’s giant Venetian resort as its crown jewel, for years has been trying to butter up the Florida Legislature to allow gambling. The company was none too pleased when arch-rival Genting came into downtown Miami and announced a massive $3 billion…
One very angry, armed and dangerous baby mama remains at large in Miami today, while the father of her child is at Jackson Memorial Hospital recovering from a stab wound. According to police, the man was working at the Shell gas station near NW Seventh Avenue and 54th Street when the woman…
Oh sure we’ve got decent weather and calming seas, but it’s not exactly a surprise that for us living year round in Miami life can be stressful. Let’s not even get started on our ridiculous traffic, horrible parking, and tanked economy. So it shouldn’t be shocking to discover that Miami has ranked on Forbes list of most…
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Yes, there’s a million different polls coming from all different directions, but the latest from War Room Logistics, a Republican aligned firm bases in Gainseville, is worth a look. Unlike most polls this early in the race, the survey polled likely Florida voters and not just registered voters. The poll also…
If Miami does not have its glam and vice, than really what else is there? Yes, yes, we’re actually a complicated, cultured city but don’t tell the rest of America that. Our entire tourism industrial complex is based on the the rest of America thinking we’re a shallow, glamorous, sun drenched…
Oh, you’re still complaining about the Facebook redesign? Just be grateful the site didn’t lead to you being shot by a man you thought was a woman. Jacksonville, Florida resident and Twitter enthusiast Christopher Harris had only recently returned to the cold embrace of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network and thought he had met…
Two separate murder-suicides in Miami-Dade County last night left two husbands and wives dead. The first incident involved 69-year-old Luis Yrigoyen who shot his wife before shooting himself while the couple’s adult children were in their home downstairs watching a football game. The second incident involved 43-year-old Apolinar Piedra, who shot is…
Cooper, a tiny Chihuahua-whippet mix, seems to have gone from sea to shining sea, but no one knows exactly how. The pup went missing from his Sacramento, California, home back in 2009. Earlier this month he turned up in Brandon, Florida. Unfortunately, his incredible journey did not involve another, more…
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South Florida, where Ponzi scheme convictions are as common as jaywalking tickets. The latest Miami man at the center of a collapsed phony empire is Oscar Hernandez. While relatively small compared to other cases, Hernandez’s $3 million scheme operated in classic Ponzi scheme…
Back in 2007 University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones got popped for allegedly pulling over in his Mercedes Benz and offering an undercover cop $20 for some sex. Jones ended up suiting law blog, Above the Law, for making a few jokes about the thing. Well,…
It wasn’t Michael Jordan in Space Jam (few things, unfortunately, are) but Chris Bosh made his network acting debut Wednesday night on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Bosh was joined by Carmelo Anthony, and the two played former players of a legendary high school coach (played…
Big man Alonzo Mourning is looking to downsize, so he’s put his eight-bedroom, eight-bath Coral Gables mansion on the market. The 13,000-square-foot pad was only built in 2004, and the former Miami Heat superstar is asking $14.5 million to move into the waterfront home in the gated Coral Gables Estates…
David Andrew Shawfield left his three young children in a hot car. After being arrested for child neglect, Shawfield not only yelled at the children, but also asked one of his friends not to bail him out because he “could use a vacation” behind bars. Yeah, and you thought your…
LeBron James, being the business mogul that he is, and his partners launched Sheets energy strips earlier this year. They’re like those dissolvable breath freshener strips, except they contain caffeine and other energy supplements.Well, someone in the marketing department over at Sheets HQ really, really finds the fact that sheet…
It’s not news that Americans love buying cheap Chinese-made goods, but the disparity between how much we import from China and how much we export to the country has resulted in about 2.8 million American jobs being displaced to China between 2001 and 2010. Florida has been particularly hard hit,…
