In 1997, when Bill Parcells was engineering a turnaround of the New York Jets, the New York Times said he was a man of two sides. One that was “loyal, brilliant, passionate, caring and uncomplicated,” and another that was “bullying, manipulative, nasty and extremely complex.” Parcells’ professional style is notoriously…
Philipe and Sherrine Mathieu have been arrested and charged with 860 counts of child neglect after forcing their own daughter to live outside for eight years. The child, now 16, was forbidden from eating, sleeping, or even using the restroom in the family home, and was forced to do it…
One-year-old Kianna Meus was found dead in the North Miami home of her grandmother on Monday. Originally reports and quotes from the family indicated that the death was an accident, but now police have charged Timothy Bodden, 23, with second degree murder for the death.Bodden is the boyfriend of the…
On news that some oil had begun leaking into the Loop Current, Governor Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency for Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Collier, Lee, Charlotte and Monroe counties. A state of emergency had already been declared in the pandhandle and central Florida counties on the Gulf Coast…
Almost everyone who opposed the new Marlins ballpark balked at the price (“yeah, just wait until it goes over budget”) and the time line (“They’ll be lucky if they’re open for the 2015 season”), but surprisingly a year after breaking ground the thing is actually on time and even slightly…
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South Florida Today anchor Bob Mayer has spent the majority of his career at WTVJ. He’s been there since 1969, when he started as an intern. That was back when the station was a CBS affiliate on channel 4. Since then he’s done everything from interviewing presidents to exposing dirty…
Good news, Dolphans! Zach Thomas, who spent 12 years with the Dolphins and racked up seven Pro Bowl appearances, is going to re-sign with the team! Then he will immediately retire.According to the AP, this afternoon Thomas will sign a ceremonial contract and then announce his retirement as a member…
A Florida driver’s license has been making the Internet rounds because it accidentally lists the driver’s address simply as “Eat Ass.” Yesterday we saw a version with her face and information blurred out. Originally we thought maybe it was Ann Coulter, but the birthday was 1979 (we all know Ann…
Twenty-five-year-old Vladimir Santos has been with his wife, Maria, since they were 13. Together the couple already had three sons under the age of five, with their first little girl on the way. The young family was renting a house in North Miami Beach, but Santos was told the house…
We’re not really sure what it is that drives people to expose themselves to teenagers in public. Psychologically at least. In this case we know the man was driving in a dark-colored, older- model, four-door car when he pulled up to a bus stop yesterday morning at NW 87th Avenue…
The dreaded Loop Current is the pathway that could transport oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast. Scientists have been warning of the possibility of runoff entering the Loop Current since the initial leak, and now MSNBC reports that…
We call men fighting in Speedos a “big fight over prime beach blanket space on the 12th Street beach.” The WWE calls it Wrestlemania, and Miami desperately wants a piece of the tens of millions of dollars in economic impact it represents.The Magic City recently lost out on hosting the…
The dominoes continue to fall after New Times exposed anti-gay activist and “researcher” Geroge Rekers’s ten-day trip to Europe with a twinky, young male escort he met through RentBoy.com. The blow back has reached Attorney General Bill McCollum’s campaign for governor, and now Florida’s Democratic Party is demanding that McCollum…
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A minor candidate in California’s governor race has proposed an oddly familiar idea for dealing with convicted sex offenders and pedophiles: he wants to put them all on an island. No, Ron Book has not moved to the Golden State.Douglas Hughes, a dark horse Republican candidate, has made “Pedophile Island”…
Miami-Dade Police officer John Villar has been arrested by his own force after he was charged with stealing $131,000 in a roadway robbery. Villar and two accomplices, including his cousin, targeted a man who had just won the money by betting on the NBA playoffs.Villar pulled the man over in…
Starting this July, for just $15 a month members of the Decobike program will be able to check out bicycles at over 100 stations through out Miami Beach for unlimited 30 minute rides. The long discussed program follows similar programs in European cities like Paris.The solar-powered stations will be dispersed…
Will Miami ever have a sensible, convenient and popular public transport system? Not any time soon, but a lot of us have cars, so who cares? Well, the very soil under your feet cares. A new study out of the University of Florida finds that urban Miami has some of…
You can add Miami Medical to the heap of South Florida-set shows that pretty much sucked and were quickly canceled. Others include Cane, Good Morning Miami, South Beach, Grapevine, Invasion, Karen Sisco, Odd Man Out, Wiseguy, and probably a few dozen other shows no one remembers.CBS has put an end…
Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is now facing a self-financed billionaire in the Democratic primary. In fact, that billionaire, Jeff Greene, already has TV ads running all over the state. So how does Meek fight back? By drawing a quirky correlation to a current and relevant pop culture phenomenon that will…
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