Remember Leonard Abess, the former banker who sold his company and gave $60 million to his own employees? Well, he’s just been named the new chairman of the board of trustees at the University of Miami. …
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Theodore Ross Dempster, a relatively little-known attorney in Miami, has been disbarred after allegations he ran a racket similar to a Ponzi scheme. Dempster is alleged to have set up a company purportedly involved in real estate development in Georgia, and collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from various investors…
Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez’s campaign has released a pretty flawed poll, and even that show’s he’s trailing former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina. Though, the poll does show that Gimenez is losing ground. The major problem here is that this is an eight-person race, and the survey only asked about…
President Barack Obama will be in town today to deliver the commencement address to Miami Dade College’s North Campus graduates at the James L. Knight Center. Which is great, but unless you’re graduating from Miami Dade, there’s nothing really in it for you except maybe some bad traffic…
North Miami Police are on the hunt for Maria Tellez. The 29-year-old woman is suspected of running over another woman with her BMW SUV after a bar fight. The 25-year-old victim was found dead, lying face down on the pavement, when police arrived…
“Are there things we don’t want you to know? Yes,” Brian Burgess, Rick Scott’s communication director (or misdirector in many cases) tells the Times/Herald’s Tallahassee Bureau. “There are things we don’t want to broadcast to our opponents.”Florida’s Sunshine Laws are supposed to foster an open and transparent government, but time and…
Undoubtedly the first time Maurice Kirchberg held his daughter Pia 51 years ago, he looked down at the baby girl and thought, Someday, when I’m old and gray and completely devoid of sex, this baby girl will buy me a prostitute. Nothing quite cements that father-daughter bond like a lady…
Liván Hernández, the Cuban defector who made his MLB debut with the Florida Marlins and pitched for the team for three seasons, is in hot water after an investigation has linked him to drug trafficker Angel Ayala Vázquez, AKA Angelo Millones.”…
The major issue of the 2010 election was the economy, and Florida voters chose to further entrench Republican power in Tallahassee. Of course, you can’t put a bunch of Republicans in a legislative chamber and not expect them to pass a bunch of anti-abortion, anti-woman legislation. It’s just what they…
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Just days after news that Gov. Rick Scott’s push to eliminate corporate income tax would end in failure, another big item on Scott’s agenda now looks it’s headed for defeat. Scott and Sen. John Thrasher, the former chair of the state GOP, made it a top priority to pass a…
Miami Police are investigating the sudden death of a 4-year-old girl this week and believe the child’s mother’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Calvin Morris Lewis, might have beaten him to death. Lewis has been arrested and charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse…
Buying a house in Miami has never been cheaper in recent times, but that’s probably because so few of us are actually in a financial situation where we can buy a house. Though the alternative, renting, continues to be an economic burden for many South Floridians. The metro area leads…
Brickell Citicentre was one of the most ambitious development projects announced during the height of Miami’s epic construction boom, but it canceled after the bottom fell out of the market in 2007. The project’s collection of skyscrapers would have forever altered the Miami skyline, while its massive retail space would…
The roads of Miami-Dade are an asphalt hell full of asshole drivers. It’s simply a fact, and sometimes someone might cut us off. Sometimes such an incident might even devolve into a roadside confrontation, but it really& is not a good idea to bring guns into the equation.A man has…
Orlando Bosch, a hero to many in Miami’s Cuban exile community and an unrepentant terrorist to others, has died at the age of 84 in Miami after a prolonged fight with illness. Bosch, a fierce anti-Castro militant, had been linked to several violent acts in his life, including the bombing…
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Ana V. Ramirez’s 25-year-old son, Christian Pagan, has Down syndrome. In April 2010, Pagan flew into a violent rage, and Ramirez had little choice but to call 911. She specifically asked officers not to use a Taser because Pagan has a heart condition. Well, they zapped him anyway, and now…
Despite little evidence to the contrary, President Barack Obama offered further proof today that he is in fact a natural-born American citizen by producing his long-form birth certificate. With that issue sorted out, we now call on the American media to investigate the circumstances of Rick Scott’s birth. Riptide has…
Another sign things are slowly getting better in the 305: Miami International Airport reports that 9.3 million passengers somehow survived getting through the airport in the first three months of 2011. That’s the highest number of passengers during that part of the year ever for MIA, and a 6.1 percent…
Gov. Rick Scott has denied a report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that his administration aims to kill Citizens Property Insurance during his first term. Scott claims he’s merely sticking to his campaign promise to reduce the state-run home insurer and return it to its original intent as the insurer of last resort…
