Late last month, 65-year-old Laurinda Mae Hughes was found dead in the crawl space of her Tacoma, Washington home. Her body was wrapped in a sheet with a bullet hole in it. The following day, police issued a warrant for the arrest of her son and his wife, Thomas Al…
35-year-old Sosthene Louis has been arrested and charged in the killing of 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira a day after police identified him as the suspect.Louis is alleged to have asked Oliveira and his friends for a cigarette. No one in the group had one, and continued walking. That’s when Louis attacked Oliveira from…
Spotted: Crazy Mom at a Seminole County library trying to stage an illfaited one-woman protest against the popular teen novel series Gossip Girl. Apparently Crazy Mom isn’t too appreciative of the racy exploits of S and B and N and C and even Lonely Boy, as they snort, drink, back-stab and sleep –sometimes…
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This certainly isn’t anything to brag about, but a new study from the University of Maryland shows that between 1970 and 2007, Miami was the target of more terrorists attacks than any other city in America, with the big exception of New York. In fact, New York has been the victim of…
The George Rekers and the rent boy scandal is at once very, very sad but also very, very hilarious. Following the mixed results of Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert, last night Jon Stewart took on the scandal on The Daily Show in a segment titled “European Gaycation.”In the clip below…
Just one day after gunmen opened fire in a public park during a game of women’s flag football in southwest Miami-Dade, shots rang out over a basketball court in Liberty City. Two men walked up to the court and unloaded about 30 rounds on a man in his late teens…
Thirty-five-year-old Sosthene Louis has been identified as the man alleged to have killed 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira outside Club Mekka after Oliveira didn’t give him a cigarette. Louis is still on the loose and believed to be dangerous. He’s described as being between five-foot-nine and five-foot-eleven, around 200 pounds, with two…
Rolando Negrin was Miami International Airport’s guinea pig during an employee training session on full-body scanning equipment last year. The machines have the unintended side effect of giving a rough determination of the size of things underneath your clothes. Apparently, Negrin didn’t measure up (hey, maybe he’s a grower, not a…
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Marco Rubio apparently won’t be enjoying a home field advantage in Florida’s senate race. The Miami born Republican who got his start in local politics isn’t too popular in Southeast Florida, and it’s the only region in the state where he polls behind both Kendrick Meek and Charlie Crist. Mason-Dixon polling…
Iggy Pop’s face is literally the reason every time you go into Miami’s cherished you’re greeted by the cool breeze of air conditioning, so it can’t be that bad, right? Not according to a new poll, which ranked Pop has having the worst celebrity face. Ouch. Another Miami face, Mickey Rourke’s, also came…
We don’t know if you’ve ever had the pleasure of watching University of Miami student films, but a heck of a lot of them use guns (it’s almost like The Office’s Michael Scott in improv class). As a graduate of UM’s famed motion pictures program, I remember some classmates spending…
The Daily Beast is beginning to rival Forbes.com for the number of inane city rankings list, but why should we complain? It gives us easy blog fodder. In honor of Mother’s Day, Tina Brown’s Internet concern ranked America’s top 200 cities by how appealing they are for mothers to live. Moms…
Gunfire broke out last night during a women’s flag football game at West Perrine Park, at SW 168th Street and 104th Avenue. Three assailants opened fire on the crowd. Four men were shot, and a woman broke her arm while trying to escape. Three of the men were hit in the leg, and the other…
Gen Art, the organization that specialized in supporting and exposing emerging talents in the fields of fashion, film, music and visual art will officially close after sixteen years in business. Gen Art had offices in Miami, as well as New York, LA, Chicago and San Francisco.”It is with an extremely…
Last season on the Jersey Shore, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi shockingly got punched in the face by a drunk guy at a bar. Now that Snooki is in Miami for season two it seems that she’s the one who’s got her dukes up. RadarOnline reports that last night Snooki and cohort Jenni “JWoww” Farley…
As Comptroller of Miami Shores 44-year-old Carolyn Modeste was in charge of the village’s bank accounts. Now the public servent has been arrested from stealing $203,293.70 between September 2007 and September 2008.According to Miami Shore Police, instead of placing cash fees paid by citizizens in the banks, she’d instead put…
While Jay Leno wasn’t taking classless lowblows at Conan O’Brien during last night’s monologue he found time to tell a “joke” about New Times’ scoop on Dr. George Rekers…
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For the second time in less than a year, the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus was put on a brief lockdown after police suspected an armed man was on the loose. The latest incident occurred today, according to CBS4, and just like last time, the man was caught and…
Beloved humor columnist Dave Barry no longer writes his weekly syndicated column for the Miami Herald (much to the chagrin of the paper’s circulation department, we’re sure). He hasn’t completely hung up his pen, but he has hung up his sperm; and he’s written all about it in his new book, I’ll Mature…
