305 Photo of the Day: Blushing Sky
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Jaguars Player Arrested for Trying to Pay Miami Beach Store in Bubble Gum
As if things couldn’t get worse for the 1-9 Jacksonville Jaguars, one of their players got arrested for the stupidest crime recently committed by an NFL player in Miami Beach this weekend. Cornerback Dwayne Gratz was arrested early Sunday morning for showing up drunk to a South Beach convenience store…
17-Year-Old Arrested in Murder of Local Rapper and Videographer
Beetoo Pierre, a 17-year-old, has been arrested for the murder of Kenson “Short Kidd” Pierre, a 21-year-old up-and-coming rapper, and Justin McAdam, a 31-year-old Navy veteran turned photographer and videographer. The incident happened back on June 18 in front of Kenson Pierre’s home at 1130 NE 133rd Street in North…
The Everglades’ Remaining Alligators Just Keep Getting Skinnier and Skinnier
The alligators of the Everglades are wasting away. Literally. Scientists have noticed for decades that gators in South Florida have become increasingly smaller than those found in central and north Florida, and things haven’t gotten better. CBS News reports that the habitat now supports about half the population scientists expect…
305 Photo of the Day: Pup Life
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Downtown Miami’s Population Nearly Doubled Since 2000
Parts of downtown Miami have become almost unrecognizable since 2000. Few urban cores have remade themselves in the new millennium the way downtown Miami has, yet the area continues to get criticism for being a place that still isn’t quite suited for living full-time. Well, the Downtown Development Agency has…
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Hialeah Gardens High Basketball Coach Accused of Molesting Players, Promising Them Steroids
Javier Cuenca, a former assistant basketball coach at Hialeah Gardens High School, has been arrested on multiple charges after allegations arose that he molested one or more male players over a period of two to three years. “He would tell them that he was going give them a steroid to…
Operation “Willy Wonka” Leads to Arrest of 17 “Get Money Soldiers” Gang Members
Dumb names. Serious crime. Miami-Dade Police’s yearlong “Operation Willy Wonka” investigation into the “Get Money Soliders” street gang has ended in the arrest of 17 members as well as 14 other individuals. The Get Money Soldiers were operating out of the Arthur Mays Villas Public Housing complex down in the…
305 Photo of the Day: High Rise
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Florida Democrats Chair on Election Loss Fallouts: “The Bed-Wetters Need to Shut Up!”
After some embarrassing losses in the midterm elections, the Florida Democratic party is full of some finger pointing and infighting at the moment, but the party’s State Chairwoman Allison Tant is sick of it. She told the News Service of Florida that, “the bed-wetters need to shut up, and we…
Pharrell Williams Can’t Sell His Brickell Penthouse
Pharrell Williams’ life is better than yours. His music career is back and better than ever. His style is fawned over. He’s a judge on one of the biggest shows on television at the moment. But not everything is going well for ol’ Pharrell. He can’t sell his Brickell penthouse…
France’s Kim Kardashian Booked for Attempted Murder, and There’s a Florida Connection
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week, that includes the Florida connection to France’s reality show attempted murder and the worst shoplifter in America…
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Miami-Dade Police Arrest Blind Man, Drop Him Off Miles From Home With No Phone
Tannie “T-Man” Burke, 21, tells CBS4 that he’s used to being hassled by cops even though he’s never been convicted of a crime. He’s been arrested twice and detained several other times, he believes, simply because he’s a young black man. “I feel they stop me because they see a…
305 Photo of the Day: Quacks
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72-Year-Old Bill Nelson Charged With Reinvigorating Florida Dems for a New Age
Senator Bill Nelson is just about the only problem the Florida Democratic Party doesn’t have. The 72-year-old senator is in his third term and always cruises to an easy reelection, and has held one elected office or another since 1973 save for a four-year gap in the early ’90s. But…
Branding the New State of South Florida: Vote for Our New State Song, Bird, Motto, and More
Last month, the City of South Miami passed a resolution calling for the area from Orlando and Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys to secede from the rest of the state to form America’s 51st state: the state of South Florida. We, of course, love the idea (even if we…
Production Truck Booked for Dolphins Game Stolen From Miami Lakes Hotel
DirecTV’s pre-game show for tomorrow Dolphins vs, Bills game is in question thanks to some local thieves. A producer for the network’s Rich Eisen Show went out to the parking lot at the Marriot Hotel in Miami Lakes to check on the production truck they had booked to help produce…
305 Photo of the Day: Lounging
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Will Florida Ever Vote for a Republican Presidential Candidate Again?
For the past few presidential elections, Florida has been the grand prize of swing states. It’s 29 electoral votes could have conceivably gone either way. President Obama was able to win Florida in the past two elections, but that was only after hard campaigning and a sophisticated “get out the…
Miami International Boat Show Moving To Marine Stadium
The Miami Marine Stadium is coming back. It’s really coming back. After sitting dormant and abandoned for over 20 years, the Miami International Boat Show is expected to announce that they’ll move their 2016 and 2017 editions from Miami Beach to the Virginia Key aquatic stadium. Though renovations haven not…
Jackson Could Lose $570 Million a Year If Republicans Refuse to Expand Medicaid
Rick Scott and his fellow Tallahassee Republicans’ strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act has resulted in the state refusing to allow the federal government to expand Medicaid in Florida. But their refusal could cause Florida hospitals to miss out on billions in funding, with Miami’s cash-strapped Jackson Memorial Hospital…
305 Photo of the Day: Looking
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