The crazed, Milwaukee sausage race of a contest to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress might finally be winnowing down to the real contenders, at least based on a poll released this afternoon.The survey of 400 Democrats shows activist Marleine Bastien and state Sen. Frederica Wilson in a virtual tie for…
Say what you will about our friends in the Conch Republic — life is never boring on Duval Street. Just ask the Key West beat cops, who spent their Sunday night chasing and tasering a local man armed with a ninja sword and a baseball bat outside the VFW hall.Benjamin…
As he campaigns for governor on an independent ticket, Lawton “Bud” Chiles III likes to trumpet his decade running HOPE Worldwide, a health-care charity. “We did immunization and health outreach for thousands of kids,” Chiles says.Sounds nice!But Chiles — who’s threatening to torpedo Democrat Alex Sink by nicking thousands of…
The first challenger has stepped up to take on Rev. Richard Dunn, the city commissioner who, in order to get an appointment to replace the ousted Michelle Spence-Jones, promised to relinquish his seat in November. That pledge lasted all of a hot minute before Dunn changed his mind, but Alison…
Rudy Moise for Congress: Another rich-guy candidate
In case you weren’t skeptical of Wyclef Jean’s soon-to-be official candidacy to become president of poor, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Smoking Gun just posted some documents you might want to take a look at. The IRS has hit Jean with $2.1 million in tax liens over the last three years, including a…
A veteran CBS4 cameraman has been charged with a felony after tussling with cops at a City Commission meeting last week in an argument over filming in a “restricted area.” Tony Jerez, the station’s longtime helicopter photographer, brought the session to a halt when he clashed with an officer in…
Just after 10 this morning, a 28-year-old Cuban immigrant named Yankier Crespo got into a fight with another man riding in his black Camry. The yelling turned into a fistfight, and the men spilled out onto SW 57th Ave.What happened next, police say, is the just latest incident in one…
Early on a dark Caribbean morning, on a sandbar just off Harbor Island, one of the great fugitive chases in American history came to a gunshot-punctuated end. Colton Harris-Moore, the “Barefoot Bandit” famous for fleeing a Washington halfway house and hijacking Cesnas, surrendered to police officers after they riddled his…
With a bumper crop of utterly shady rich guys threatening to run off with our Senate and governor’s races, it’s been easy to forget that South Florida also has open House seats to fill.But if political theater is your thing, do not ignore District 17. Eight Democrats are locked in…
After two hours of discussion, the Miami City Commission this afternoon voted 4-1 to grant final approval for two skyscraper-tall digital billboards to be built atop a new parking garage next to the Arsht Center. Only Frank Carollo voted against the plan after expressing his concern that the commission considered…
At 10:30 this morning, twenty local activists will descend on Attorney General Bill McCollum’s Miami office on Brickell Avenue bearing a letter with a simple message: Back off Arizona’s SB 1070. McCollum, the brilliant legal mind who spent six figures of your tax dollars to hire Rent Boy George Rekers to…
When Allison Kent met her new client at the Krome Detention Center — a Haitian man she now calls Mike C. — should couldn’t believe he’d been allowed to represent himself for weeks in court. Mike C., she learned, had an IQ of 56 and bipolar disorder.Yet after two screenings, immigration prosecutors…
Wyclef Jean is seriously mulling a campaign for president of Haiti. His candidacy was buzzing around political circles in Little Haiti all last week, and then over the weekend, the onetime Fugee confirmed to a Canadian newspaper that he has already filed paperwork to enter the race.The big question: Can…
On January 16, an aspiring musician named Carlos Bertonatti spent hours inside downtown megaclub Club Space until hopping into his silver 2007 Volkswagon and speeding off into the early morning sunlight. A few minutes later, police say, the handsome 28-year-old slammed into a cyclist near Key Biscayne and then roared off,…
Cue the breathless local TV announcers and the runs on milk, bread, and stout whiskey at Publix: Miami is officially in line to get hit with its first tropical storm of the season.The National Hurricane Center just issued a tropical storm warning for Florida’s East Coast from Golden Beach south…
Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy
Tea Party fave Marco Rubio has been urged by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to boycott a North Florida event headlined by Brigitte Gabriel, a fiery anti-Islam speaker. But the event’s organizer says Gabriel is staying on the schedule — and Rubio should think twice about declining his invite because…
Nathan Turner, an avowed Communist and teacher at a renowned New York prep school, took a boatload of his kids to Cuba to see El Jefe Supremo “one more time before he died.” So says the New York City School District, which released a report today saying that Turner knowingly…
In Restrepo, the Sundance-winning documentary that debuted in South Florida this weekend, director Sebastian Junger tackled the toughest questions about the war in Afghanistan by ignoring the politics and immersing himself in the day-to-day fight for survival in the country’s toughest valley.The film is named for Spc. Juan Restrepo, a…
He moved boatloads of Colombian cocaine through the Caribbean to U.S. shores, bought dozens of luxury homes and built a house in the Dominican Republican with his own personal zoo, police say. When he was nabbed for murder in the late ’90s, he paid the jailers $1 million to escape…
South Florida’s Juan “Doc” Restrepo did not die in vain
