Now that Amar’e Stoudemire is playing for the anti-Miami Heat up in New York City he has no use for his lavish Miami Beach penthouse at the W Hotel & Residencies in South Beach. He’s just put his 2,428-square-foot apartment (plus 2,700 square feet of private outdoor space) on the…
Floridians don’t seem to like much of anyone when it comes to politics. A day after releasing dismal approval ratings for controversial Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Quinnipiac has released a new poll showing that a majority of Floridians don’t think Democratic President Barack Obama deserves a second term. The president…
Remember how Rep. David Rivera is allegedly a giant, corrupt scumbag? Well, someone in his office would rather you forget. According to Politico someone in Rivera’s office is desperately trying to remove all references to the many investigations Rivera currently finds himself at the center of from his Wikipedia page…
How far does the stench of corruption seep into Florida politics? Apparently, all the way down to the public university student government level.Impeachment papers have been filed against University of Central Florida Student Government Association President Michael Kilbride after his administration has found itself caught up in allegations of pay-to-play…
It’s really important for parents to encourage their children to pursue their interests and, ideally, even get involved in activities with their kids. Unless those activities are things like fighting.Twenty-six-year-old Gerdine Edouard is accused of driving to her 11-year-old daughter’s elementary school, encouraging her to get into a physical fight…
Usually Miami Beach is a place where professional athletes go to get in trouble, not their mothers. Several reports claim that LeBron James’ mother Gloria James was arrested early this morning at the Fontainebleau resort and could be hit with misdemeanor charges of simple battery. Updated…
LeBron James is set to go global by buying a piece of one of the most storied soccer teams in the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, James is set to enter a deal with Fenway Sports Group that would give him a minority stake in the Liverpool F.C.,…
Only 42 percent of white voters in Florida voted for Barack Obama back in 2008, but he still managed to narrowly win the state. A new analysis from National Journal suggests that Obama can manage to capture even less of the white Florida vote in 2012 and still pick up…
Florida legislators are hard at work trying to pass a law that would ban students from wearing baggy pants in the classroom, but baggy pants have actually saved a teenager life — well, sorta. Seventeen-year-old St. Petersburg resident Kendrick Williams escaped an alligator attack because the reptile could only manage…
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Florida’s so-called Arizona-style immigration bill, which Governor Rick Scott campaigned on, is looking less and less Arizona-style as it makes it way through the state legislature. Republican state Senator Anitere Flores, who had authored the original Senate version of the bill, helped approve a number of measure that would strip…
A 16-year-old girl in Homestead was raped Sunday after accepting a ride home from church with Edwin Carrillo-Garcia, 23, a fellow parishioner. He’s accused of driving her instead to an unknown area and raping her in his car before driving her home…
There are only three acceptable situations in which it is OK to snatch a woman’s weave: (1) Bitch just stole your man, (2) you are on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, or (3) you are a police officer who has reasonable suspicion that a suspect is hiding stolen cash under…
Florida residents are getting a big gulp of Tea Party policy thanks to Gov. Rick Scott, and so far they don’t seem to be enjoying the bitter taste. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, 48 percent of Floridians disapprove of Scott’s job performance, up from 22 percent in February. Fifty-three percent…
It’s good to know that during these hard times, our state senators are focusing on the big issues. Issues like addressing Florida’s dire need for an official state amphibian. Thank goodness that state Sen. Steve Oelrich (R-Cross Creek) has taken up this pressing concern and is making sure the barking…
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine is expected to resign in order to run for Senate from his home state of Virginia, leaving one of the most important posts in the party — and by extension Washington, D.C. — up in the air. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents portions…
Regardless of what’s actually on the mind of University of Miami interim athletics director Tony Hernandez, the media has already anointed Kansas State coach Frank Martin the frontrunner for the Canes’ open basketball coaching job because of his considerable connections to the Miami area (connections that involve a past high…
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Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Reinaldo Ruiz was arrested Friday by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies at his Southwest Ranches home on domestic violence charges. It seems his rampage stems from the fact that the victim, whom he was dating, refused to hold his hand at a Miami Heat game. The incident that followed…
It seemed Lil Wayne’s big legal problems were over when he got out of the clink late last year, but the federal government still has beef with President Carter. The rapper owes about $5.6 million to the Internal Revenue Service, and a lien in that amount was filed against his…
For the past two years, Dwyane Wade has been just about the only NBA superstar not to have his own signature sneaker. He traded his own line of Converse kicks and apparel to take the historic honor of being the first basketball-player spokesman for Nike’s Air Jordan brand since Michael Jordan himself. But the…
Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones’s burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ninth anniversary of September 11,…
