The University of Miami has a whole lot of proud history that the team hasn’t bothered living up to in years, and new coach Al Golden is hoping to return the team to the glory days. In fact, he’s bringing Michael Irvin back into the locker room, or at least…
Bill Nelson has done a pretty decent job of upholding the tradition of being Florida’s sort of boring, painfully moderate, generally congenial Democratic Senator. His approval/disapproval numbers right now are a somewhat worrying 38/34, but when he’s placed head to head against all the possible Republicans who could challenge him…
Your grandma probably has an email address, even if it is only to forward you weird chain letters. Everyone uses email these days. Everyone but Rick Scott, apparently. The man has asked constituents not to email him because he gets “embarrassed” by the form of communication. For a governor who has…
Gallup-Healthway’s annual “Well Being Index” takes a wide-ranging reading of physical, emotional, and mental health of political districts on the state, metropolitan and congressional levels. The just-published statistics for 2010 don’t give such a healthy diagnosis to Florida or the Miami metropolitan area, but perhaps most worrying is the fact…
Cats on the internet are supposed to make us laugh like peanut butter on jelly is supposed to be delicious, but every once in a while a cat story comes along that makes us bawl our eyes out uncontrollably. While the cat at the center of this story happens to…
As expected former conman turned pastor turned corporate whistle-blower Barry Minkow has pleaded guilty to commit securities fraud. He was accused of purposefully trying to harm the business of Lennar, a home builder that is one of the largest companies head-quartered in Miami-Dade, by reporting that were operating “like a…
Jenny Hausch, the woman who found herself pinned underneath a 300-pound eagle ray during a chartered fishing trip off Islamorada, is speaking out after the freak incident. The mother of three young children tells CNN she instantly went into survival mode after the ray jumped out of the water and landed…
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The Miami Beach Police Department offered a swift reaction to videos that surfaced online after this weekend’s on-the-beach melee between angry partygoers at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel event and cops, who claim they acted appropriately. The videos show officers struggling with various people surrounded by an unruly crowd. At…
After last night’s humiliating loss, it’s hard to muster evidence that the Miami Heat is number one in much of anything right now, but it might be the best-dressed team in the NBA. No, we’re not talking about the uniforms. Sports Illustrated polled 137 current NBA players as to who…
Coral Gables jewelry store owner Eddie Snow might be celebrating his 67th birthday this Friday before undergoing open-heart surgery Monday, but you don’t want to mess with him. A would-be robber attempted a brazen smash-and-grab on Snow’s Miracle Mile shop, but the store owner caught up to him and delivered…
It’s been a little more than a year since Tilikum the orca drowned his trainer in front of an audience during a show at Orlando’s SeaWorld, and now the park is putting him back to work. This morning during the park’s Believe show, he made his first performance since the deadly incident. Tilikum…
Xtranormal’s do-it-yourself computer-animated videos with monotone computer voices are the latest minitrend in viral videos. Geico has even used the site’s video-making service in its commercials. Usually the videos pit someone naive against someone irate, and it was only a matter of time before someone made one targeting our fair…
Marco Rubio wishes he could have this moment for life. He’s a young superstar senator, the likes of which D.C. hasn’t quite seen, diverging politics aside, since President Obama. ABC’s Nightline scored what it calls “the first national television interview” with Rubio since he took office, and got a behind-the-scenes…
Kids try to get high off the darnedest things. Four middle schoolers in Hialeah have been hospitalized after overdosing on drugs meant to treat bi-polar disorder. While the students are believed to have taken the drugs off-campus, they complained that they were feeling sick while at school…
It’s really no secret that many marriages amongst professional athletes aren’t the most sacred unions. When the man is on the road a significant number of dates a year it’s not uncommon for him to at least be tempted to get some on the side. Well, former MLB star Barry…
The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature is moving forward this session with a number of restrictive anti-abortion bills, the newest of which would require doctors to discuss research on the possibility of fetal pain caused by the termination of pregnancy. Though, there’s little conclusive evidence as to when a fetus can start…
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Police are investigating a double shooting this morning in Kendall that left a couple dead inside their home. While the investigation is on-going, detectives believe that the incident may have been a double shooting. Two children resided with the couple in the home, but had left for school earlier that…
Lee Willie DeJesus, a 25-year-old father from Homestead, was put behind bars last August after allegedly killing his two-year-old son during “boxing lessons”. He spent the rest of his life there. On Saturday DeJesus was found hanging from his own bed sheets at the Miami-Dade jail…
Yesterday, an over-eager PR flack from Guess sent out a press release and a picture claiming that none other than Lady Gaga had paid a visit to their South Beach store. Problem was that the woman in the picture was wearing painfully normal clothes, which is so not Gaga. Nor…
After just a few months in office, Floridians have decided they aren’t big fans of Rick Scott and his Tea Party-style politics. A new poll shows that 55 percent dislike the new governor, while only 32 percent like him. While Scott has never been Mr. Popular, those number have only…
