Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns of Ocala is very interested in his Democratic colleague Anthony Weiner’s alleged bulge pictures. More specifically, he’s interested in making sure that members of congress are safe from cyber attacks and hacking. Stearns was on Bill O’Reilly last night and said, “The United States has a…
As the Miami Heat are on the hunt for the second NBA Championship, the big man who helped them secure their first has announced his retirement from professional basketball. After 19 seasons in the NBA, four championships rings, 15 trips to the All-Star Game, an MVP award and six teams,…
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Twenty-two-year-old Raymond Herisse has been identified as the man shot and killed by police during an early morning Memorial Day weekend incident in the streets of Miami Beach, according to CBS4’s Jim DeFede. Herisse had a long criminal history and had been arrested numerous times before in Palm Beach and…
Singer Elton John is just the latest in a long line of critics who have a bone to pick with Florida governor Rick Scott. Through his Elton John AIDS Foundation, the singer wrote a letter to Scott urging the governor not to make further cuts to the state’s AIDS Drug…
The NBA Finals feels like Miami versus the World, but there’s at least an entire other nation rooting wildly for the Heat: The Philippines. Yes, Coach Erik Spoelstra’s mother is a native of the Pacific nation, and Spoelstra is the first Filipino-American head coach of any major North American professional…
Senator Marco Rubio has only been in office for a few months, but Miami-Dade County may soon name a street in his honor. Commissioner Rebecca Sosa is sponsoring a resolution that would rename a stretch of Southwest 15th Street between 57th Avenue and 67th Avenue as “Marco Rubio Way.”…
Rep. Paul Ryan’s Republican budget plan, which among other things essentially replaces Medicare with a voucher program, is shaping up to a be a big issue in the 2012 election, and one would expect any candidate, especially running for a Federal legislative office, to have an opinion on it. Florida…
In reaction to the last 30 years of crime, drug trafficking and sexual provocativeness within the City of Miami Beach, a coalition of good, white Christian activists from a collection of Red States plan to send a letter today to local, state and federal leaders demanding that the entire city…
LeBron James may be on the brink of winning Miami an NBA Championship. Man that’ll feel almost as good as that time the Miami Hurricanes beat Ohio State in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl to take home the BCS Championship. Oh wait…James is seriously testing our Miami sports fan heart strings…
Nineteen-year-old Gabriel Mendigutia wanted his girlfriend to shoot him in the chest with a pellet gun, and she did. The pellet Alley Castro, 19, shot ended up going right through Mendigutia’s heart, but thanks to a rare heart anatomy he was able to survive…
The Drudge Report still reigns supreme as an influential aggregator of right wing-leaning news and is run by the increasingly reclusive Matt Drudge out of his home that, as of last report, is somewhere in an undisclosed portion of Miami. Unsurprisingly, he’s decided to blow up the incidents on Miami…
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Dear America:We address you as ambassadors of sorts from the culturally sovereign nation of Miami-Dade. It has recently come to our attention that the “Miami Heat,” a professional sporting concern that represents our city in your National Basketball Association, has advanced to a series that will crown this organization’s annual…
Former Miami Beach Democratic-state-senator-turned-failed- attorney-general-candidate Dan Gelber doesn’t want his political relevance to fade away (and the man may have a bright future in Florida politics yet), so he’s reminded everyone he’s still around by posting a blistering attack on Florida’s easiest target: Gov. Rick Scott. In fact, Scott makes…
The cause of the Jet Ski crash that left 21-year-old singer Sean Kingston throwing up blood and in the trauma unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital is still under investigation, but authorities have reportedly ruled out alcohol as the cause of the crash. Meanwhile, Kingston still remains in the intensive care…
Sean Kingston, the Miami-born hip-hop crooner who once graced our cover, was in a serious jet ski accident off of Miami Beach today, according to multiple reports. The injuries were so severe that Kingston is reportedly being treated in a nearby trauma unit…
Well, there’s really no word for how disgusting and messed up this is. Robin Leigh Pagoria, a Sheriff’s Deputy in Polk County, Florida, is accused of tying two young girls to a desk, spanking them with sex toys, and capturing it on video so her online boyfriend could watch. Ugh…
Just days after hammering out an agreement that would avoid teacher layoffs in Miami-Dade, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has announced the implementation of the first performance-based pay plan for teachers in the state. Carvalho claims that some teachers could earn more than $100,000 a year, and the plan will be funded…
Sure, saying you’re taking your talents to Cape Florida State Park Beach doesn’t have much of a ring to it, but the stretch of sand on Key Biscayne is apparently the best Miami-Dade has to offer, and one of the best in the country. The annual list put out by…
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The non-stop criticism of LeBron James turned ugly when haters started taking aim not just the Heat but at their fans and Miami itself. They said our city is shallow. They said we didn’t cheer hard enough at home games. They said we didn’t deserve this team. They said we…
