Residents of “Knifecrime Island” might become increasingly wary of traveling to the “Gunshine State.” The brutal murder of two British tourists in Sarasota has shocked the United Kingdom, and now the country’s media is stirring the idea that maybe Florida isn’t such a safe place to visit.For a state that…
LeBron James decided the best place to take his talents was South Beach, but it might not have been the best place to take his mom. A witness told TMZ that Gloria James yelled xenophobic slurs the night she was arrested for slapping Fontainebleau valet Rockefeller Sorel, a Haitian immigrant…
Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen want to make sure everyone in Miami is counted. The two are demanding that the U.S. Census Bureau recount the number of City of Miami residents it tallied in 2010. The feds say only 399,457 residents live in the city, which…
A little after 5 p.m. yesterday, the parents of 10-year-old Tyriq Ammons sent him to his room for misbehaving. Forty-five minutes later, his mother went to check on him. She opened the door to find her son hanging from a noose fashioned out of a videogame controller. Tampa Police are investigating…
Republicans are eager to claim incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson’s political scalp in the 2012 election, but no clear Republican candidate has emerged yet. State Rep. Adam Hasner, who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties, has begun an exploratory committee but is little known around the state.The young and…
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In the words of Liberty City poet Trina: “Who got more ass than the average bitch? You know it’s the baddest bitch. Number ten in the face, slim in the waist, fat in the ass, do you want a taste?”Yes, Trina, apparently Miami does want a healthy serving of plump…
The University of Miami is constructing a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Life Science and Technology Park in the heart of the historically impoverished Overtown neighborhood near downtown Miami. But the project has been wrought with controversy. Neighborhood activists claim the project, built with public funding because it would create jobs, has not…
Rolling Stone details the quick rise and tragic personal fall of the teenage Internet queen.
Eugene Roman may never see the errors of his own ways. Or much of anything in fact. He gouged out his own eyes with his finger back in 2005 while serving time for beating his wife. Shortly after the incident he was released, and his wife accepted him back into…
Thank God for Valium. Your crazy aunt’s favorite pharmaceutical has helped to rescue a dog found in South Miami-Dade that had its head trapped in an abandoned boat cooler for more than a week. Of course, Miami-Dade firefighters deserve the real credit here…
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Something about being a mother makes a woman want to make sure than her male offspring have the neatest, tidiest hair possible. Usually when a son forgoes regular barbering it usually results in sighs of, “Fine, just walk around town with your hair all a mess and let everyone think…
Given the high profile cases of Bernie Madoff, Scott Rothstein and Allen Stanford, the image of a Ponzi schemer is usually that of some rich white guy with a cigar hanging out of his mouth praying on already well-off investors, but not all schemers fit that bill. Marguerite Martial Jean,…
Florida’s government is apparently “for the corporations, by the corporation.” Gov. Rick Scott promised to run Florida like a business, and his fellow Republicans in the legislature are pushing through many “pro-business” reforms.They also happen to be taking in tons of cash from corporations. For example, a company that deals…
Percy Palomino walked into his home in Southwest Miami-Dade at about 1 a.m. on Sunday only to find his wife, Elizabeth Palomino, dead laying in a pool of her own blood. Police are investigating the brutal murder, but so far have released no information on possible suspects of motives…
Miami Hurricanes linebacker Ramon Buchanon’s arrest on felony charges in Coconut Grove last month may have put a dent on the team’s recent clean image, but the felony charges against him will be dropped assuming he completes a pre-trial diversion program. Buchanon had previously been reinstated to the team…
The day is almost here. After one of the most scrutinized regular seasons afforded to any team in just about all of NBA history the Miami Heat are set to play their first play-off game with LeBron James and Chris Bosh joining Dwyane Wade in red and black tomorrow. They’ll…
Miami-Dade politics is a complicated beast, and the recall of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez has set off a lot of dominoes. Commissioner Carlos Gimenez’s decision to resign from his county commission seat to run for mayor means it’s now up for grabs. And guess who’s running? Former City of Miami…
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Child porn is a cut-and-dry legal situation, but rare cases where an underage performer deceives otherwise legitimate producers of adult pornography by producing forged legal documents has a much more murky legal history.RK Netmedia, producers of the popular Reality Kings network of sites, finds themselves in hot legal water for…
We’ve got a theory that mayoral candidate, New Times columnist and 2 Live Crew visionary Luther Campbell is becoming something of a Miami hipster icon. For one thing he’s a New Times columnist. He’s also been hosting parties at downtown haunt Grand Central. Now he’s lent his acting skills to…
