Down here in Florida we like to start ’em on the binge drinking when they’re still youngins. Let’s be honest, by the time kids get to their first UCF fraternity party they’re already seasoned partying pros. Though, maybe 18-months-old is just a little bit too young.Yeah, a toddler up in…
Rumors abound that former Dolphins legend Jason Taylor is about to hang up his cleats for good and enter the broadcasting booth. Well, Taylor says he’s not ready to retire from the gridiron just yet, and isn’t ruling out another return to the Miami Dolphins. But after the ugly way…
Two men are dead after a tragic situation in North Miami Beach last night. Thirty-seven-year-old Jonathan Woolfson is believed to have possibly killed his friend, Troy Longhurst, then Woolfson himself was shot after a stand off with the SWAT team…
Twelve senior citizens in South Florida have lost their vision after being injected with tainted medication. The Department of Health claims a contaminated batch of medication and syringes was distributed to various medical clinics in the area…
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Bad news for techno-exhibitionists, and good news for pretty much everyone else: the days of those full body scans that leave little to the imagination at Miami International Airport security check points will soon be over. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out new technology at MIA and 39 other…
An early-morning shooting down the street from Little Haiti’s iconic punk-rock dive bar, Churchill’s Pub, has left one person dead and another recovering in the hospital. The incident happened around 3:30 this morning, and police so far have released few details. Updated. …
The spat between Rep. Allen “Black David Letterman” West and Rep. Debbie “home perm after model” Wasserman Schultz rocked the political world yesterday, so of course it wound up on The Colbert Report last night. And being the faux right-winger he is, Stephen Colbert had to wonder “what kind of…
Ever experience that dreadful feeling of rifling through your purse or patting down your pockets only to realize that you’re cell phone wasn’t where you thought it was? Well Miamians, you’re certainly not alone. Miami is in fact America’s cell phone loss and theft capital…
In 2003, a man came up to Jeffrey Ricardo Barr outside of his home in North Miami and shot him in the head, leaving Barr dead on the sidewalk. For years, his murder remained a mystery, but now, eight years later, police have arrested his wife, Janet Whisby Barr, claiming…
Ulises Rodriguez, a member of the Miami-Dade Fire Department since 2005, has been arrested when a string of lewd text messages were found on the phone of a 17-year-old boy who was found dead late last month…
A new druggy detail has emerged in the shocking case of Tyler Hadley, the Florida teen who killed his parents with a hammer over the weekend and then threw a party in their house: Hadley’s best friend now tells the media that the teen claimed he was high on ecstasy…
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In a situation only slightly less perplexing than being your own grandfather, it turns out that Rep. Allen West is not his own congressman. In fact, the Republican who represents the 22nd District actually lives in the neighboring 20th District represented by Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the congressman he…
A Miami art school student is set to file a lawsuit against Alonzo Mourning claiming that the former Heat star crashed his Porsche into the student’s car on the Julia Tuttle Causeway early Sunday morning before fleeing. Mourning did return to the scene, however, nearly an hour later in a…
Yesterday, Honest Tea, a beverage brand owned partially by Coca-Cola, set up kiosks across 12 cities in America stocked with chilled bottles of its iced tea. Though, instead of an actual cashier, the company only placed a clear plastic box near the center with a sign asking for a dollar…
Is anyone all that surprised when someone associated with NASCAR continually spouts racist, ignorant garbage? Not really. Sure, it’s an image the league is trying to move past, but Bruton Smith, an owner of several NASCAR tracks, is sure making it hard. The guy is full of more hot air…
Did anybody lose a rare, five-and-a-half foot snake? We can’t imagine it’s the kind of thing that you wouldn’t notice was missing, because Miami-Dade police sure noticed it when they found it wandering through a neighborhood in the Northwest area of the county this morning…
Nevermind the heat or your safety, Miami is apparently America’s 8th most “walkable” city in all of America. That’s according to Walk Score. Though, the high ranking is a bit deceiving. It only applies to the City of Miami, and is only in relation to America’s 50 largest cities by population…
Former Heat star Shaquille O’Neal made his big debut as an NBA analyst today on an show announcing the release of the season schedule. He had nice things to say about the Heat actually, which was refreshing in the wake of Charles Barkley’s mouth’s year-long perpetual word vomit. Unless, of…
A judge in Baker County, Florida, has awarded custody of Miranda Wilkerson, a 3-year-old girl, to a registered sex offender whom she is not related to. The girl will be removed from her grandmother’s house, where she has lived since her mother was killed in a car crash just a month…
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