Could the Miami Hurricanes three-game win streak be in part due to some futuristic help? Al Golden and his team have joined a small but growing trend of college football teams who are relying on drones during practice in order to perfect plays…
Police have connected 22-year-old Alexander Tyler to the murder of a homeless man. The victim, whose name has not yet been released, was in his late 40s. According to NBC Miami, he was believed to have lived under the 836 bridge, and came to a Little Havana laundromat once a…
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Months if not years late to the story, the New York Post decided to check in this weekend on development in Edgewater. According to the Post’s take, the area was full of “vagrants” before and is now quickly turning into some family friendly area where actual Miamians will live and…
LeBron James is gone, but criticism of the Miami Heat’s fans has stuck around like a cranky, drunk party guest. Heat fans didn’t see it, but during the local D.C. broadcast of Wednesday’s opener against the Wizards, Washington’s play-by-play man Steve Buckhantz accused the Heat of pumping in fake crowd…
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If you’re over the age of 21, you likely haven’t heard of Jerome Jarre. He’s a Frenchman who has amassed more than 7.5 million followers on six-second video network Vine thanks to his pranks, but earlier this week one such prank attempted aboard an airplane landed him in trouble when…
It’s Halloween, and Riptide has decided to go as the scariest costume we can think of: A Thought Catalog or Elite Daily writer! Spooky! Because the best costumes are things that scare the hell out of you, but also on some level resonate with you. Yes, it’s time for an…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week: Coke in vaginas, terrible mugshot T-shirts and a neighborhood terrorized by wild pigs…
H. Gary Morse, Florida’s most powerful developer, died Wednesday night at the age of 77. Morse didn’t upend existing cities and build shiny new luxury towers along their coasts. Instead he created and kept careful control over his own make-shift city, populated mostly by people over the age of 55…
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Between October 11 and October 29, several cars in a Hialeah neighborhood went up in flames. Two of which just happened to belong to the same woman. Police have now arrested Armando Hernandez, 51, the woman’s boyfriend, and charged him for the car-charring spree…
There are a plenty of terrifying real-life Florida stories for Halloween, but let’s be honest: Ain’t nothing scarier than clown crimes. And the Sunshine State has had more than its share of felonious clowns terrorizing the population…
City of Miami Police officer Jose Maldonado-Dick might have misunderstood the “protect and serve” part of his job description, because he’s been arrested for offering to protect and serve drug traffickers. A seven-year veteran of the force, Maldonado-Dick approached a drug dealer back in July and offered his protection. He…
Usually a high-profile politician coming out against your opponent is a good thing. Unless you’re Democrat Charlie Crist, and the guy attacking your opponent is Ralph Nader. Because, as we found out here in Florida back in 2000, left-leaning people who listen to Ralph Nader don’t necessarily vote for Democrats…
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A somewhat surprising number of Florida’s biggest and most influential newspapers have come out against medical marijuana. The Orlando Sentinel, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Florida Times-Union are just a few. None of those editorials actually bashes the idea of medical marijuana. They’re cool with it, in theory. They…
A man performs a stunt on his motorcycle.Motorcyclists performing death-defying stunts at high speeds while weaving through traffic on I-95 are not, unfortunately, an unusual sight in Miami, but last night those tricks proved deadly for one man. Police say the man, either 25 or 26 years old, lost control…
In a bit of a twist on the old saying, dog bites cat isn’t news… unless everyone thought it was a case of man using cat as a bow-and-arrow practice target. Police in Palmetto Bay say that a string of cats found dead in the city last week were probably…
Zombies don’t exist. The closest thing we’ve seen in real life is that guy on bath salts who ate a guy’s face. Which, of course, happened here in Miami. Yet, that man survived. Somehow, though, Miami has ranked in the bottom ten cities in which it would be best to…
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Municipal politics in Miami-Dade are officially non-partisan, but most local pol’s private party affiliations are well known and it’s becoming more and more common for the local Democratic and Republican parties to get involved. Just this summer, the Miami-Dade Dems helped Daniella Levine Cava beat Republican Lynda Bell in a…
