Former Mayor of Miami Maurice Ferre, who somehow thinks he is running for US Senate even though he is trailing in the primary race for the party that is trailing in the general election race, has announced that he doesn’t support the Democratic healthcare plan. “It is a special-interest plan…
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Florida’s shock jock answer to Howard Stern, Bubba The Love Sponge (who’s been heard on 93Rock since last year) striked up some controversy after some comments he made on air and on his Twitter.”I say fuck Haiti. Why do we have to take care of everybody our country is in…
Miami Beach Police were called this morning to Akoya, the luxury high-rise condo with the familiar crown-like structure on top in Mid-Beach, to face the possibility of a jumper. When they arrived at 7 a.m., they found the dead body of a man on the south side of the building.Inside…
An 80-foot yacht known as the Patron went up in flames Monday at a marina off Alton Road and Third Street in South Beach.According to WSVN, fire crews arrived around 7:10 p.m. and took nearly two hours to extinguish the flames. Luckily, the blaze didn’t spread beyond the boat, and…
A grandmother in Lauderdale Lakes was killed after she refused to give her teenage attacker $5 to buy marijuana. [Herald]A former Miami cop who devised a scheme to steal $15,000 from Crime Stoppers will get only two months in jail. [Herald]A University of Miami doctor who led much of the…
Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Kendrick Meek traveled to Haiti over the weekend to assist with the Miami-Dade Urban Search and Rescue Team’s efforts. The team rescued a 2-year-old girl who was stuck under debris for five days and reunited her with her father. Meek captured the moment on video from…
After Hurricane Katrina, a group of researchers at Clemson University devloped the SEED Project, aimed at turning shipping containers into temporary housing in the event a similar storm hit the Caribbean. The idea was only a concept, but in the wake of Haiti’s earthquake, the team is working to make the idea a…
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After being turned down by their first two picks, the Miami Dolphins have signed Mike Nolan as their new defensive coordinator, according to FoxSports.com. Nolan resigned Monday from the same position with the Denver Broncos and was previously DC under Bill Parcells when he was general manager of the NY Jets. He…
Sex with animals? Still technically legal in the great state of Florida. State Sen. Nan Rich championed a bill last year that would make bestiality a felony, but the prudish Florida legislature never got around to passing it. Miami Sen. Larcenia Bullard’s “People are taking these animals as their husbands?…
The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped into the ongoing Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones saga on behalf of five voters in her district. Just days after being re-elected in November, Spence-Jones turned herself in on charges of grand theft after accusations she stole money from the county. Gov. Charlie Crist quickly suspended…
Aren’t there enough aspiring swimsuit models in Miami Beach looking for a sugar daddy? So how did one Miami Beach doctor get duped into thinking he was having an online fling with a former Maxim model, only to find out he was actually trading pictures and having phone conversations with…
The “tea party” might be one of the silliest names associated with a political movement, but that hasn’t stopped one Florida group calling itself the Tea Party from taking a similarly named group to court over the rights to the name.The Florida Tea Party, a grassroots movement not affiliated with…
Hundreds of Haitian refugees have begun applying for temporary protected status in Miami. [Herald]Willy Gort will be sworn in as a city commissioner today at 4 p.m. Michelle Spence-Jones won’t be joining him. [CBS4]Twenty-six sea turtles taken in during the cold snap have been released into the wild. [CBS4]A woman trying…
Want to open that family-owned erotic bakery you’ve always dreamed of? How about a boutique that specializes in footwear for dogs? A cleaning service that sends maids dressed as the clients’ favorite Star Wars character? Whatever the small business idea, conditions seem to be getting more favorable to realize it. A Portfolio.com/BizJournals survey ranked the Miami/Fort…
Before those two failed Senate runs and his stint as attorney general, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum was a congressman for 20 years. During his freshman term in the House, a young McCollum had a dream. A dream that one day, there would never be a national holiday celebrating the…
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The former Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium will have a new name for the next five years: Sun Life Stadium. Somehow it’s even worse than the last one. Seriously, there are strip malls in Kendall with better names that…
Beloved luxury-porn mag Ocean Drive celebrated it’s 17th anniversary by putting beloved amateur-porn star Kim Kardashian on its cover and invited her to host their big self-congratulatory party last Thursday at the Delano. Half the point of throwing these parties is to get publicity, but not even Ocean Drive can compete…
Right now in Bicentennial Park, a bunch of French Canadians are putting the finishing touches on a 12-day process of erecting what is supposedly North America’s largest tent. For what? Cavalia, the-Cirque du Soleil-meets-Mister Ed extravaganza that is easily the gayest thing involving horse faces since Sex and the City: The Movie. Created by one…
Is Iowa Rep. Steve King aiming to be the most hated congressman from a flyover state since Tom “Miami is a Third-World Country” Tancredo?Late last year, King assaulted the ownership of our Miami Dolphins during a congressional hearing over much more important things, and now he’s gone and said something incredibly…
