Yesterday afternoon, students from South Miami High School were making their way home on the school bus when a motorcyclist slammed into the back of the bus. The incident occurred near Southwest Second Terrace and 57th Avenue.The driver, believed to be in his 20s, instantly died on collision. No students…
Every thing seems to be going Dwyane Wade’s way in court (judicial, not basketball) lately. First he settled a series of lawsuits with a former business partner, and now he has been awarded temporary sole custody of his two sons in his increasingly ugly divorce with wife Siohvaughn Wade.The ruling…
The Murda Grove Boys are not, as their name would suggest, a horror-core boy band but actually one of Miami-Dade’s most violent criminal gangs. CBS4 reports that Miami Gardens police, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have arrested 15 suspected members of the gang today. Four other members and…
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Talking Heads leader David Byrne is still pursueing his lawsuit against Gov. Charlie Crist for using one of his songs in a YouTube campaign ad. He wants $1 million because he believes the ad suggests that he endorsed Crist and did harm to his reputation. Today he explained the situation to…
Rue McClanahan, one of the stars of legendary 1980s sitcom Golden Girls, has passed on at the age of 76. People magazine reports that she died at 1 a.m. this morning surrounded by family, and had suffered a minor stroke earlier this year after bypass surgery.In our humble opinion Golden…
Three way action seems to be all the rage in Florida politics this year, and now the Governor’s race is about to get a some-what high profile third wheel. Lawton “Bud” Chiles III, the son of former Democratic Governor and Senator Lawton Chiles says he plans to run for Governor…
Police are searching for a man involved in two robberies in the Kendall area who got his hands on more than stolen items. In the two robberies, a man ambushed women as they arrived home. Threatening his victims with a knife he stole their purses, and then proceeded to fondle…
Luis Felipe Perez is just the latest South Florida man to see his Ponzi Scheme toppled. The SEC has charged Perez with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme that targeted the local Hispanic community since 2006. Havana-born Perez ran a jewelery and pawn shop business, and promised investors returns of anywhere…
The Miami Dolphins seem hypocritically concerned with whether prospective player’s mothers were ever prostitutes, but seem to not be too concerned that one of their current players stands accused of brutally hitting his pregnant girlfriend. This has lead one Fox Sports columnist to label the Fins “home to NFL bad…
Are there any iconic Miami hotels that aren’t having some sort of financial trouble at the moment? How about the historic Biltmore in Coral Gables? That’s probably doing good, right? Oh, wait, the management companys owes the city of Coral Gables $2.4 million in back rent according to The Miami…
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Miami Living, one of these locally-focused luxury style mags that somehow manages to survive, has accidentally published a penis! Well, the shadow of something that sure looks like a penis.Fox News, of all places, first caught the snafu. The mag’s latest issue, which features the appropriately named Courtney Cox on…
He’s making a list. He’s checking it twice. Gonna find out who’s worth the price. Dwyane Wade is (probably) staying in town.He see’s you when you’re dunking. He knows what shots you make. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for Dwyane’s second championship ring’s sake…
Jim Greer, the divisive former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has been arrested and charged with six felony counts stemming from allegations that he siphoned money from the party for his personal use. Greer is the first arrest stemming from a grand jury examining public corruption called for…
Zadesky Vega, a former U.S. Marine, bought a little pug about three years ago and named her Roxy. The precocious pup escaped one day from Vega’s mothers house in South-West Miami-Dade. Neighbors say they saw someone pick her up in a truck and drive away. After putting up flyers and…
A two-year-old boy was found with second and third degree bodies on his neck and torso. Now police suspect child abuse.Police received an anonymous call to check on his well-being early this morning, and went to the home of his 17-year-old mother. The mother and her boyfriend said that the…
We’ve seen some coke heads practically descend into a zombie-like state where they become completely devoid of normal human emotion and only fixate on their next fit like they were in a George Romero movie looking for brains (pure, uncut Bolivian marching brains). Well, now coke heads may have rotten…
First we had a winter so brutally cold, by our standards anyway, that it literally killed iguanas, and now the warmer months are already shaping up to be record-breaking as well. The Sun-Sentinel reports thermometers at Miami International Airport indicated what your sweat-stained undershirts and air-conditioning bill might have already known: It…
Each year, Charity Navigator compiles a list of which American cities’ major local charities perform the best and ensure that donors’ money actually ends up going to the intended cause.Last year, Miami came in first place. This year, the Magic City fell a bit, to sixth out of the 30 metro areas…
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You never know what’s going to happen on South Florida’s roadways. Earlier today, Dolphins’ wide receiver Davone Bess was driving while doing a phone interview with Jorge Sedano on 790 the Ticket when he saw a truck flip three times and had to put the station on hold to do…
