Danny Parker, a Sunday school teacher from Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and eventually convicted on child porn charges in 2009 after he was found to have cut out the faces of children from photos he’d taken and then pasted them on the bodies of explicit photos of adults. Now, a…
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Peter William Munoz, a 24-year-old member of the Coral Springs Police Department, has been arrested and charged with DUI manslaughter after hitting another car in Coral Gables over the summer. The other driver, Jennifer Gutierrez, 23, died of her injuries…
Miami’s largely Republican Cuban exile community and Fidel Castro for once actually agree on something! They all think President Barack Obama is stupid!Yesterday, Obama said his administration is “open to a new relationship with Cuba if the Cuban government starts taking the proper steps to open up its own country,”…
The first poll of Florida voters taken after Herman Cain’s surprise win in the Florida Presidency 5 straw poll is out, and combined with his crazy straw loss and fumbling performances in two debates Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign seems to have hit a snag in the state. He’s fallen…
In terms of mascots, TD the Dolphins doesn’t get much respect. Despite being a dolphins he’s actually kind of terrifying looking, plus he’s sort of a let down from the days the ‘Fins had an actual Dolphins in the stadium. At least the dude has mad soccer skills, which he…
Back in July, Panama City, Florida teen Jacob Hendershot was missing for weeks before his naked body was found dead inside a storm drain. Now one of four suspects in the case claims she’s a vampire.”Since I was like 12 every fiber in my body basically everything, I know this…
On Tuesday, like most days, 88-year-old Felix Espinosa was waiting for a bus to take him to a senior center where he frequently eats lunch and plays dominoes. Instead he wound up at Jackson Memorial Hospital after being brutally beaten by a thug who tried to rob him of cash…
The race for the Republican nomination to take on Sen. Bill Nelson next year is in a sad state of affairs. Some grassroots nobody named Mike McCallister is leading the pack with 17 percent of the vote, but 58 percent of Republican voters are still undecided. Meanwhile, the two establishment…
No matter how much you may love animals, can we just all agree that PETA has become the worst? They’re obnoxious turds who actually kill thousands of animals, not to mention they have some of the stupidest, most cloying advertising not dreamed up by Crispin Porter. Now they’ve put up…
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The National Organization for Marriage, the sometimes fumbling and controversial anti-gay marriage group, is targeting Miami-area Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in its latest publicity stunt. Last week, Ros-Lehtinen became the first and so far only Republican to sponsor a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which furthered…
Former Florida Gov. Claude Kirk has died at the age of 85. Taking office in 1967, Kirk was Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and the first Republican governor elected in a Southern state in modern times. Kirk is remembered for his outsize personality and flair for controversy. A strong…
Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, the delicious little South Beach taco restaurant that could, won’t be a local secret much longer. The restaurant has gone chain. It’s rapidly expanding in Florida, and Ruby Tuesday has plans to open another 200 Lime outlets in the eastern United States. Just don’t expect it…
More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on a beach that’s part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The 55 pounds of yayo was found not far from a launching pad used to send Delta II rockets high into the atmosphere. The discovery ensures that, well, someone…
Anthony Mangione, the chief of the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s South Florida department, was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Mangione had been suspended in April after federal investigators found images of child porn on his computer in his Broward County home. A summer-long investigation led…
With Genting Group ready to plop down billions on a planned new high end casino in downtown Miami after a law-changing stop in Tallahassee, few prominent politicians are opposing it, as much as they are making sure their interests get that tax money. Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado wants to make…
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Power 96 morning host and Miami bass legend DJ Laz finds himself connected to a bizarre murder-suicide that occurred in Miramar this past weekend.Marcus Trotman, 25, shot his wife, 30-year-old Danielle Lorenzo, and his mother-in-law, Linda Scudera, before turning the gun on himself. All three died. According to Local 10’s sources,…
Are the Marlins about to go on a free agent spending spree that would make the Heat blush? Doc Gooden, the slightly disgraced former pitching star who appeared on the fifth season of Celebrity Rehab, reports (apparently exclusively) on his Twitter that Albert Pujols, one of the best players in the…
In a major development, Cuba went to the United Nations yesterday and announced it wanted it to normalize relations with the United States. However, Michele Bachmann won’t have it. Not because of anything like “prove facts” or a “rationale and informed understanding of the issue,” but because she read somewhere…
Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh haven’t played together since the last game of the NBA Finals, and with the lockout in full effect we weren’t sure when it would happen again. That’s about to change. The trio is expected to announce plan for a charity All-Star game at FIU on…
