Meera Khan, a former employee of the state Department of Children and Families in Miami, was a true welfare queen. She worked for DCF for nine years and during that time faked applications to collect food stamps for herself, as well as ripped off her needy clients by pocketing fraudulent…
Yesterday we learned that after Gov. Rick Scott spearheaded a law requiring all welfare recipients in the state to undergo drug testing, only 2 percent of people who have taken the test since the law went into effect July 1 have failed. That’s compared to about 8.16 percent of the general…
You think your significant other is needy? At least he or she is not staging kidnappings in order to get your attention.Twenty-one-year-old Rashell Leeann Barfield was arrested yesterday after leading her boyfriend, family, and police on a search for a white van in which she was supposedly being held captive…
Scientific American just dropped its “Better, Smarter Cities” issue, which is chock full of Top 10 lists. Miami makes a few appearances but tops only one: “Highest Sickness Risk.” Though, we also make appearances on lists for best Internet access, walk-ability, and most fast-food restaurants…
Two years ago Gustavo Villoldo, an anti-Castro agent who buried Che Guevara’s body, was awarded a $1 billion judgment against the Cuban Government after he claimed that Fidel Castro’s rise to power lead to his father’s suicide. Now, another Miami judge has ruled that the Cuban government must pay Villoldo…
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So the fine folks at Gawker are busy this week counting down America’s 50 worst states. We were bracing ourselves to find Florida either near or at the very top of the list. After all, Gawker does take delight in chronicling our weird news. Yet today we find that the…
A controversial new law requiring all people in Florida to undergo a drug test before receiving welfare benefits from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program was championed heavily by Gov. Rick Scott. He claimed the new law would save Florida money, but new statistics show that only 2 percent…
President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory was fueled in no small part by Hispanic voters. He pulled off a major 36-point victory over John McCain in the Latino vote, and new poll numbers suggest he’s poised to pull off a major Latino landslide against his top Republican challengers. Assuming, of course,…
In 1995, on the heels of the Hurricanes’ Pell Grant scandal, Sports Illustrated published one of its most minimalist but powerful covers: a plain green background featuring the headline “Why the University of Miami should drop football.”To many Canes fans — most of whom believed up until last week that…
If you’re of the thought that LeBron James second- guessed himself a bit too much during the NBA Finals and shied away from making big moves in the moments that mattered, this video of him sheepishly taking minutes to jump off a diving platform in front of a large crowd…
Last night was a big night in Marco Rubio’s career. Not only did he make his first major speech outside of Florida and D.C., but he also saved a collapsing Nancy Reagan. Rubio was walking down the aisle before his speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California with…
Fresh after being hit by and spending most of the rest of the day tweeting about a minor earthquake, the northeastern portion of our fine country might have to deal with a serious natural disaster. Hurricane Irene has shifted away from Florida and now has North Carolina and the northern coast in…
Marking his first major speech outside of D.C. or Florida, Marco Rubio will speak tonight in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Of course, some spectators can’t help but make comparisons between Reagan and Rubio (high office aspirations and all), but one group says Cuban-American senator is much farther…
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Like most people in Miami, you have a checking account that is still feeling stressed. This means whether you’re buying a few too many drinks at an overpriced bar before your next paycheck or just trying to put food on the table, you’re probably overdrafting once in a while. At…
Some former University of Miami athletes and recruits implicated by superscum Nevin Shapiro have somehow stayed on the rosters at their new schools. Yet the eligibility of players currently on the Miami team is still up in the air. Why? It’s likely because the NCAA has cut deals with the players to keep their…
Early this month, Miami-based Dilligaf clothing line filed suit against Jersey Shore star Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino, claiming he refused to promote a line the two parties had planned. Now, Sorrentino is countersuing and asserts that Dilligaf (an acronymf or “Do I look like I give a fuck?”) didn’t even…
Alberto De Jesus Coteron Oliva, 19, tried to pull his best The Fast and the Furious moves over the weekend. Now he sits in jail for killing three teenage passengers in his car Sunday night and fleeing after the accident…
As the University of Miami weathered a category five storm of controversy last week spurred by Nevin Shapiro’s investigations, the university’s president Donna Shalala remained relatively quiet, only releasing a terse statement. This afternoon she released a nearly six minute video on YouTube commenting on the scandal, and says that 15 current University of…
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Late last month, an Orlando-area judge ruled a major Florida drug law that’s been on the books since 2002 unconstitutional. Just last week, a Miami judge cited that ruling and overturned the conviction of 39 defendants. The rulings will have to work their way through the courts, but if a…
