Saddest story of the morning: An elderly Keys man has shot and killed his wife and his cat before committing suicide.Just after noon yesterday, Monroe County sheriffs got a call from Little Torch Key that gunshots had been fired inside an upscale, two-story house. Another neighbor called in to say…
Mark S. Gold sues strip club Gold Rush for charging him $18,000
Six lies about the Marlins stadium
Cuba was once among the world’s great coffee exporters. Nowadays it’s running so short on beans and importing so much joe to feed the nation’s cafecito habit that Raul Castro has ordered state roasters to mix coffee beans with chickpeas to save cash.Mmmm, the bitter, chickpea-infused taste of communist production…
Chris Bosh hand-delivered a giant turd sandwich against the Boston Celtics this weekend, shooting three of ten from the field for 7 points. But cut the guy some slack. He may have had other battles on his mind.Bosh filed a lawsuit yesterday against his ex-girlfriend and a TV company in…
We’re a year from the new Marlins Stadium opening, but it’s already one of the most hated edifices ever built in Miami. (Just ask Carlos Alvarez). So while we spend the next 40 years paying down the $2.4 billion in interest on this elephant we never wanted and didn’t get…
When I visited Guantánamo Bay on the eve of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, two things seemed certain: that the hated prison would soon be shuttered and that it would go down in history as one of America’s worst follies.Two years later, the camp is still running strong and Osama bin…
News flash, Miami: Fidel Castro ain’t dead yet. But a pre-death run on Fidel memorabilia and signatures is driving prices through the roof. Apparently, autograph hounds are tailing Fidel these days like that creepy sweatpants guy following Hanley Ramirez at spring training with a trash bag full of rookie cards.So…
A City of Miami Police officer has shot and wounded a suspect in Little Havana. Ricardo Orta Jr., a 19-year-old, is in stable condition this morning at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The shooting happened outside a dollar store in the strip mall near NW 14th Avenue and West Flagler Street around…
South Beach towing companies go to war
For the past four years, Edgard Dixon has patrolled Dinner Key, catching bike thieves, protecting Miami City Hall, and even helping to nab a fugitive who was hiding out near the docks. But despite a promotion to captain, the 61-year-old private security guard says his employer, Kent Security, pays him…
If you’re going to rip off your own mom for ten grand, you might as well get your money’s worth, right? So goes the tale of Miriam Garmas, a 34-year-old from Stock Island who police say committed the perfectly stereotypical South Florida crime by defrauding her mother out of more…
Every night, hundreds of unlucky partiers stumble out of South Beach clubs to find their cars gone, hauled to a grim storage lot on Bay Road and held for ransom. Towing is big business for the Beach’s only two licensed companies — Tremont and Beach Towing — and since their…
Florida law isn’t murky when it comes to residency requirements for state representatives: “Upon taking office” you must be living and voting in your district. Pretty simple, right?Well, five months after getting sworn to represent a district in West Kendall, Republican Frank Artiles is still living in his $300,000 Palmetto…
ICE won’t let Lyglenson Lemorin return for his son’s funeral
Eastern European B-girls in SoBe scam
Tim Hetherington earned an Oscar nomination last year for Restrepo, his harrowing, front-line documentary about an Army platoon mired in a deadly Afghanistan valley. The picture is named for medic Juan “Doc” Restrepo, a Pembroke Pines native whose death during a firefight inspires the rest of the soldiers to survive…
What’s the Cuban equivalent of Boca? And is there a Spanish-language version of “Thank You for Being a Friend” out there? If so, cue it up because Fidel is apparently headed for the land of Metamucil, 2 p.m. bingo games and that slow, lazy march toward death.Castro has announced in…
Last Friday, a Miami-Dade police officer was lucky to be alive after Durall Jessie Miller fired at him, leaving him with a wounded foot and a bullet-hole in his hat. Late last night, when police tracked the fugitive down to a Miami Gardens house, Miller wasn’t so lucky.Police shot and…
To celebrate Tax Day, the folks at Right to the City and MoveOn.org decided it was high time to combine the best traditions of 1985-era Chicago Bears dancing and progressive lefty political agitation. The result? Behold the “Tax the Rich Shuffle.” William “The Fridge” Perry was sadly not involved, but…
Lyglenson Lemorin’s life already read like a John Grisham novel with a particularly cruel ending: acquitted in court of cooked-up, Bush-era terrorism charges, the legal U.S. resident with no criminal record was deported anyway to his native, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, leaving his family behind in Miami. Now Lemorin’s tale has taken…
Economic reports are clear that South Florida’s third largest industry — after fabricating massive housing bubbles and churning out “I’m In Miami Bitch” t-shirts — is marijuana grow houses. One in every three homes in Kendall, in fact, is actually an empty shell full of sophisticated pot-farming equipment.*So South Florida’s…
