Today was the beginning of the last chapter in Florida’s strange status as America’s pill mill capital. Strike forces fanned out across the state visiting clinics specializing in freely prescribing addictive prescription pills to round up their leftover stash. New laws passed in the past two years give the state more power to crack…
Derick Kuilan, the Miami Beach police officer involved in a bizarre ATV accident that sent three citizens to the hospital, will be fired. Rolando Gutierrez, another officer who was not directly involved in the accident, will also be fired following a swift investigation…
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Democrats in Florida have a huge registered voter advantage over Republicans, but you couldn’t tell that by looking at the leadership in Tallahassee and the Republican super majorities in both house of the state legislature. There’s a few reasons for that situation (including the Republican-controlled 2000 redistricting process), but the…
Elisha L. Dawkins, the veteran of the U.S. Army and Navy who was jailed on a seemingly minor passport fraud charge only to discover he was not actually a US citizen, has rejected a deal that would see the charges dropped. Now, Dawkins’ case will go to trial, and he…
Do not piss off US Airways flight attendant Tonialla G. Certainly do not think about snapping a picture of her name tag, because she will have you booted off that plane so quick, and apparently US Airways will comply.Miami photographer Sandy DeWitt claims she was kicked off a Miami-bound flight from…
A 3-year-old Shih Tzu survived a brutal attack on Saturday by a gang of teenage boys thanks to a vigilant passerby. According to WSVN, Carlos Torres witnessed a group of boys trying to drown the dog in a canal in Miami Lakes when he jumped in to save it. The…
Here’s just another bit of info to pile on to illustrate the obvious: Miami’s Real Estate market is totally fucked. Excuse the profanity, but honestly is there any better way to describe? It is fucked. That’s what it is.Anyway, Business Insider compiled a not-so-cheery listicle, and determined that Miami will…
As far as we know Miguel Exposito is still the police chief in the City of Miami despite his ongoing tension between with Mayor Regalado. Well, despite no official announcement of his departure, the city is apparently already looking for a new chief. They’ve posted a help wanted ad looking…
Chris Boudreau of Brooksville, Florida fell behind on his mortgage. It’s not an uncommon tale in Florida right now. What is uncommon is the tactics his mortgage lender took to rectify the situation. 21 Mortgage Corporation of Knoxville, Tennessee hired a local company to come into his house, trash his…
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Gov. Rick Scott has seemed to overcome his hesitations about funding Central Florida’s SunRail commuter train program and announced his approval of state funding for the program today. Scott’s first big decision in office was surprisingly killing a federally funded high-speed train project, a move that proved highly unpopular and…
Aggressive LeBron James dunks may have been too few and far between during the NBA finals, but fear not Miami Heat fans, James can still take it to the house with no mercy …against middle schoolers at least. James made a surprise appearance at the Nothing but Net basketball camp…
There’s a cancerous strain of political outlook on both sides that views politics as nothing more than a game played by two sides. Somehow the conservative Sunshine State News Service managed to inject that outlook into the results of the Miami-Dade mayoral election, a non-partisan race that pitted two candidates…
Oh sure, we’ve all swiped a thing or two from the office, but taking a few items from the supply closet at NASA is a far more serious offense than taking home a few pens and sticky notes.Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell is being sued in a Miami Federal court for…
Miami-Dade police officers shot and killed four suspects Thursday while investigating criminal activity near the Redland. Officers had been called to a home near Southwest 216th Street and 189th Avenue when they were confronted by four men in ski masks armed with firearms. Very little information seems to be available…
Governor Rick Scott wants to make Florida the best state to business in in the county, but a report by CNBC suggests he has a long way to go. In its annual rankings of business friendly states Florida came in at a respectable but not stupendous 18th place tie with…
The arrest of former Miami Dolphin Daryl Gardener has it all: cougars, accusations of cheating, sorority houses, cologne bottles, and a club called Fubar.The 38-year-old former defensive tackle was arrested early Tuesday morning in front of the University of Central Florida’s Zeta Tau Alpha house in Orlando along with his…
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Remember Dr. George Kenney, the hypnosis enthusiast/principal of North Port High School in Sarasota, who was suspended after a student he hypnotized suffered a fatal drug overdose the next day? Well turns out that isn’t the only student Kenney hypnotized who later turned up dead. An investigation found that three…
Dwane Torres was hired to remove vegetation from around a power line in the back of a Key Biscayne house. The homeowners had called FPL repeatedly to take care of the overgrowth, but the utility company refused. Unfamiliar with the position of the power lines, Torres used a large saw-like…
Despite being perhaps the biggest biggest bust in MMA’s short history, Kimbo Slice still has a lot on his plate. Besides making plans to star in a motion picture, Slice is set to make his professional boxing debut in Miami …another Miami. Miami, Oklahoma. Lets hope he lasts more than…
