In an often emotional trial, Andy Rodriguez stands accused of fatally stabbing classmate Juan Carlos Rivera with a box cutter in the halls of Coral Gables Senior High School in 2009. Rodriguez’s defense team is trying to paint his actions as merely in self-defense.Days after jurors viewed surveillance footage of…
A 12-year-old girl was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night after she was shot by her brother. The brother, in his early 20s, was carrying a gun when it accidentally discharged and sent a bullet into the girl’s leg. She’s recovering and in stable condition. Update: The brother has…
Seems like the Dolphin’s hunt for a new QB may have hit a snag. The Denver Broncos are keen to keep Kyle Orton and released quotes to the media today from Orton in which he claims he expects to be the team’s starting quarterback next year…
Oh, Jesus Christ. Gawker has a whopper of a story today accusing Archbishop Emeritus John C. Favalora of running the Miami Archdiocese of the Catholic Church like some sort of gay sex mafia.The report, penned by former New Times contributor and theater critic Brandon K. Thorp, gathers information from an intensive…
We all know the Rick Scott administration isn’t big on creating new government programs, but Scott’s former chief of staff, Mike Prendergast, who now heads the state Department of Veterans Affairs, wants to institute a Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. Scott signed off on a bill authorizing the creation of…
We were under the impression that any time a sports superstar decided to take his talents to South Beach, his former fans erupted in mass hysteria and jersey burning. Perhaps over-eagerly anticipating another LeBron-like situation, The New Orleans Times-Picayune decided to ask its readers if they planned any Reggie Bush…
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Forty years ago, Patricia and Bruce Wright promised to love each other until death do them part at the Friendship United Methodist Church in Punta Gorda, Florida. In a tragic tale, the couple, who had most recently lived in Las Vegas, returned to the church on Sunday and killed themselves…
A Miami-Dade Police officer is accused of arresting a Guatemalan man on trumped up charges and calling him a “fucking immigrant” after asking where the man was from. Cases like this sure don’t help those in favor of bringing Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida and claim that they wouldn’t lead…
Mustafa Cornelius Lee, 28, and Francisco Henriquez, 35, have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting off-duty New York City Police Department Detective Harold Thomas in South Beach over the weekend. The shooting appears to have stemmed from a robbery attempt…
In a shocking bit of fate, Butch Davis, the man widely credited for getting the Miami Hurricanes house back in order after NCAA sanctions, has been fired for dragging the UNC Tar Heels into their own NCAA investigation quagmire. The news cycle being what it is, sports writers are already…
Brothers Jonathan and Luis Baez have been arrested after seriously beating up a pilot on a plane at Miami International Airport last night. The skirmish started after the flight crew ordered one brother off the flight because he appeared to be drunk or on drugs and ended in the terminal…
Ex-Miami Beach cop Derick Kuilan has hit the fallout trifecta after taking a drunk joyride on an ATV and hitting two citizens: he’s been fired, he’s been arrested, and now he’s being sued.Victim Kitzie Nicanor is still in the hospital with a severe brain injury and may need medical care…
Perhaps when Dwyane Wade and LeBron James agreed to take a pay cut to work together, they figured they’d more than make up for that salary loss in endorsements. Maybe not according to a new list of the NBA’s most marketable players. Both have plummeted out of the top ten…
The race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination has barely just begun, and Florida has already seen numerous visits from moderate candidates such as Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman, but the candidates further to the right haven’t made their presence known here. That’s about to change when Michelle Bachmann, the Tea…
Browsing through the photos in Michael Dweck’s Habana Libre, one might mistake the setting of luxurious excess and jubilant partying for Miami Beach. Surely, Cuba, a country that at least purports to believe in a classless society, wouldn’t allow a young, privileged, and beautiful class to walk around in designer…
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Here’s a cautionary tale for all the amateur erotic self-portraitists out there (and let’s be honest, that’s just about anyone under 30 nowadays). A Bonita Springs woman arrived at her office one day and found topless photos of herself in the office fax machine. Thing is, she swears she never sent…
Lobster miniseason is meant for noncommercial divers to get an early chance to kill some lobsters. Unfortunately, every year it seems a few of those divers also end up dead. In fact, just hours after the miniseason began, one diver is already dead…
When Alan Grayson, a hot liberal mess of a congressman, was defeated last fall, we thought it would be a long time before Florida saw a politician quite as loud and un-apologetically boisterous. Of course, that was the same night Floridians in a different district elected Allen West. Alan and…
So the Dolphins have picked up undrafted rookie Pat Devlin, and Tyler Thigpen has officially packed his bags for Buffalo, leaving Chad Henne as the top man in Miami, for now. The QB hunt is still on, though, and rumors about a trade for Kyle Orton are flying, but the…
Two masked men drove up to Miami’s West Little River Park yesterday around 6 p.m. and began firing. Four children, one as young as 3 years old, were hit by stray bullets. None of the injuries was life-threatening. …
