This is pretty much all we know about the lock down of the University of Miami right now: BB GUN WAS USED.According to reports, two girls were shot by a BB gun in the school’s gym parking lot, and authorities are looking for a gold Volvo.We’ll let you know if…
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Michelle Spence-Jones will run for the commission seat she just got kicked out of. [Herald]President Obama answered a Cuban dissident blogger’s questions. [NBCMiami]The Miami Herald’s website has a special section devoted to The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Erotic Literature for Teenage Girls. Hey, maybe teen girls will find that section and…
Daily Kos/Research 2000 just released their latest Florida poll, and there are a lot of interesting little poll number factoids to be pulled. Riptide tends to have some smart readers, so we won’t recap the entire poll, but instead let’s mine some of our favorite nuggets.The Senate Race:Republican Primary:Charlie Crist…
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passed away yesterday at the age of 74 from complications of a brain aneurism. The husband and wife were known for their large-scale projects that transformed landscapes. While Cristo, as it seems to go, gets more of the credit, the project that brought the duo to Miami in 1983 was…
In the Liberty City Seven trial, 26-year-old Rotschild Augustine yesterday was sentenced to seven years in jail. [CBS4]So, a survey says MIA is one of the top five airports in the world to get stuck in. [CBS4]The 17-year-old accused of stabbing and killing a Coral Gables Senior High classmate wants out of jail…
Given that Florida is the only state with it’s own category on strange news emporium Fark.com this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but we’ve officially been named the strangest state.Tableseed.com went through the Associated Press’s “strange news” archives from the past year to determine which was the strangest state…
U.S. District Court Judge Joan Leonard handed out the first sentence to a member of the Liberty City Seven. Burson Augustin will serve six years in prison. Significantly less than the 30 years prosecutors wanted. Leonard believed he played only a minor role. Augustin was arrested in 2006, with six…
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It’s almost time for the Holidays, which means it’s time to cover your house in lights, find a present for your weird uncle Adolfo, and, oh right, the annual War on Christmas.The American Family Association kicked things off early this year by calling for a two month boycott on Gap…
Sarah Palin will be in Florida as part of her Going Rogue book tour next Tuesday (but only the “Real America” parts of Florida, so sadly she won’t make it down South), but will she drop off an endorsement in the Senate race while she’s here? Palin tells National Review Online…
Michael “Drunk Driving Godzilla” Gongora and Jorge Exposito have won the run-off elections for the Miami Beach Commission. [Herald]And Francis Suarez, son of former mayor Xavier Suarez, has won the run-off in Miami. In 5 days, when he’s sworn in, the city will have 3 out of 5 commission seats…
Chad Pennington has already worked his way back from throwing arm injuries twice in his career, and he’s not sure if he can do it for a third time.According to the Associated Press, Pennington has finished the first phase of rehabilitation, but may wait until as late as March to…
So, Miami will hold a special election to fill the seat that Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones was booted from after turning herself in for grand theft charges a day after she was sworn in for her second term. And you’ll never guess who’s considering a run: Michelle Spence-Jones! Spence-Jones is eligible to…
You know a candidate is really serious about painting himself as a hardcore conservative when he tries to place himself to the right of Right Wing Deity Ronald Reagan. But that’s exactly what Marco Rubio did today, by declaring that the Gipper’s support of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of…
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The big legal battle over a little book has come to an end today. The U.S. Supreme Court decided it won’t take up the case.The Miami-Dade County School Board removed Vamos a Cuba from library shelves in 2006 after a parent complained that the 32-page book for young readers portrayed…
One of South Florida’s leading serious gay news sources, South Florida Blade, has shut down, according to reports. Its owner, Window Media LLC, which is the largest publisher of gay newspapers in the nation, has abruptly closed all of its titles.Originally founded in 2000 as the Express Gay News, it…
Surprise, surprise! Politicians who were in favor of easing sanctions on Cuba changed their minds once they got big donations from the U.S.-Cuba Democracy Political Action Committee. [Herald] City of Miami politics sucks so much, sort of like a vacuum. So now there is a vacuum of power, if you will,…
When circling big games at the beginning of the season, I think we all ran out of ink after we got past the first four.When those were over with, then everyone decided to paint North Carolina as an easy win when we were all more eager to talk about the…
