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Last night in the Colts vs. Fins game, we saw two offenses: one with a gimmick and one with solid talent. Even though the Colts’ offense had the ball for less than 15 minutes the entire game, they still won 27-23. [Reuters]But hey, at least there were tons of celebs…

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In February 2008, then-Herald writer Natalie McNeal challenged herself to not spend a single dollar that month. That spawned her semi-popular Herald blog, the Frugalista Files.McNeal might be the diva of pinching pennies, but there’s one expense she’s not scrimping on lately: lawyer fees.McNeal trademarked frugalista in 2008 and has…

The story of Father Cutié had all the makings of a Hollywood romantic comedy, albeit slightly subversive: Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy happens to be a celebrity Catholic priest. Boy and girl get caught frolicking on a beach. Boy leaves the church amid a media storm. Girl gets…

Apparently it is a horrible thing for people living under a Communist regime to ever hear live music. This is why a bunch of people smashed Juanes CDs (or if you watched the news footage closely, quite a few homemade copies of Juanes CDs) on Calle Ocho yesterday. [NBCMiami | Herald…

We know half of the scribes in Miami have their pens waiting in anticipation for the day Fidel dies, but journalist Ann Louise Bardach, author of Cuba Confidential, has gone ahead and written a whole book on the subject. The Daily Beast has the exclusive first excerpts from Without Fidel:…

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​Apparently, Mayor Carlos Alvarez didn’t think the budget meeting would pack enough drama into his day, so he decided to schedule an early-afternoon news conference yesterday to call out the Miami Herald. You can watch the nearly hour-long proceedings on CBS4’s website.”I think we should start taking really more advice…

  This is a bit of a leftover from yesterday, but a reporter from the Tribune Co.-owned WSFL was trying to get an interview with the father of a Coral Gables High student in the wake of Tuesday’s stabbing. His daughter is allegedly the girl who the two boys were fighting…

We don’t mean to take away from Hannah Giles’s journalistic triumph of exposing a few jack-ass ACORN office workers who seemed shockingly all too ready to dole out tax advice to a pretend pimp and his hooker (in one case looking to bring in underage girls from El Salvador to work as…

The County Commission finally agreed to out a budget at 5 AM. In the end elderly folks still get their meals, and many community service organizations will be spared from total funding cuts. The number of proposed layoffs of county workers has also decreased, but county workers will still have…

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Earlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union took up the cause of the released sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, but today the group’s lawsuit against the county was dismissed.The ACLU argued that the county’s ordinance that bars sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of schools…