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Pain & Gain Writer Pete Collins' 15 Minutes of Fame Have Arrived

When Jay Miscovich Found a Multimillion-Dollar Haul of Emeralds, Mel Fisher's Treasure-Hunting Family Attacked

Sabado Gigante at 50

Obama Says Romney "Shoots First, Aims Later"

Yesterday we told you about how one RoboRomney seized the opportunity of the attacks on Libya that left Chris Stevens and other U.S. diplomats dead to pounce on Obama's terrorist-coddling, apologetic ways by attacking a statement Obama never actually made. Well, it turns out, the president watches ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: Your Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention

Paul Ryan Stays Away as Mitt Romney Hits Florida This Week

Mitt Romney is hitting Florida starting tonight for a fundraiser being hosted by his car-dealership-owning friends. It's all part of his swing-state bus tour in which Mitt plans to make stops in St. Augustine and Miami and being interviewed by Spanish-language radio station Radio Mambi. Mitt cancele ... More >>

June Clarkson and Theresa Edwards Were Fired After Revealing Widespread Foreclosure Fraud

Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis -- Who Else Did Christopher Chaney, Florida's Celebrity Hacker, Spy On?

​Earlier this week, a 35-year-old Jacksonville man, Christopher Chaney, pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into celebrity email accounts and leaked nude photos of several of them, including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. He faces up to 60 years in prison, according to the Associated Pres ... More >>

Super Bowl Liveblog From Louis the Clueless Orphan Sports Fan

A photo from Louis's childhood​Louis did not have an average childhood. An orphan, he was taken in by kindly nuns, but now he's 30 years old and the nuns finally convinced him to move out. He was raised to be a kind and forgiving gentleman, but his experience in the orphanage had one blind spot -- ... More >>

Joe Alu Sets the Record Straight?

Former Kim Rothstein bodyguard Joe Alu can be a very slippery guy. He called me today because he didn't like the mention of the steroids investigation in the previous post, but when I asked about his former employer, he went all "60 Minutes lawyer" on me. A snippet of our conversation:   ... More >>

Max Mermelstein, the Snitch Who Brought Down the Cocaine Cowboys, Hid for Two Decades

Prison for Whistleblower; Probation for $6 Million Tax Cheater

Flickr​The 60 Minutes segment was called "A Crack in the Vault." That "vault" contained all the billions and billions that wealthy Americans stowed in Swiss bank accounts, with the assistance of UBS, in order to cheat on taxes. And the person who cracked the vault was Bradley Birkenfeld, who gave ... More >>

Gregg Easterbrook on Michael Vick and Animal Cruelty

​Two weeks ago, former Atlanta Falcon's superstar Michael Vick appeared on 60 Minutes to give his first interview after his release from jail. For those of you living under rocks and sustaining yourselves on grubs and nightcrawlers, Vick was charged in December 2007 with running an illegal dogfigh ... More >>

Hollywood Drug Maker Scorned Nationally, Advertising Locally

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/A screen grab from the Broward edition of this morning's Miami Herald.​A month after a national magazine named Resveratrol Ultra among the drug supplements that profit from what appear to be misleading advertisements and in the week following its being menti ... More >>

With Regret, Hollywood Drug Retailer Making Bucks Off Dishonest Advertisement

​The researcher who discovered the possible life-extending powers of resveratrol sold his company for $780 million, which probably means he doesn't need to sell his endorsement to a company called FWM Laboratories that operates out of a shabby industrial neighborhood near I-95 between Stirling and ... More >>

UC Berkeley Study: Carbon Cap Good for Florida's Economy

If maps with red don't convince you global warming is bad, maybe money will do it. It's trendy to go green these days. Fashionable to recycle, not waste water or litter, and help keep the planet what we like to call "inhabitable." But a new study from the University of Calif ... More >>

Mutual Benefits Con Man Joel Steinger Spent a Lifetime Getting Mobbed Up

Fort Lauderdale, You Have Tea on Your Face

Who would have guessed that witnessing a tea bagging would be so hard to swallow? Honestly, I thought yesterday afternoon was going to be funny. I figured I'd stroll a few blocks from the New Times the Juice office down to the federal courthouse at Broward and NE Third Avenue and see a fe ... More >>

Wade, Heat Shut Down Detroit

I don't want to pile on the poor city of Detroit. That place has fallen on Dustbowl-esque hard times as of late. Half the population vacated the city, and the average cost of a home is now $18,000. President Obama mentioned Detroit in the litany of choices he has to make between "bad and worse" ... More >>

Tribune's Lee Abrams Defines America

In his latest think piece, Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams describes the transformation of the company's national cable channel, WGN, into "WGN-America." "WHY 'AMERICA'? Because there's more to life than Hollywood and Manhattan," Abrams writes. "The channel will speak to Mi ... More >>

Nixon in a Deep Frost

Langella and Sheen capture a summit of ego as Frost/Nixon goes from stage to screen

Abrams: Tribune Should Study USA Today's Success

We have the latest think piece from Tribune Co. Innovation Chief Lee Abrams and it's another doozy. I can't begin to capture the Abrams vibe, but here are some highlights:   -- He proposes to "blow up" an underperforming TV station in the Tribune chain and totally "rethink" the m ... More >>

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The Ten Most Hated Figures in Hip-hop

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Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

Camilo's Retreat

He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

Yahoo For Tiger

The Rave's Back, Baby

It's glowstick time again, and strangely, we have Mara Giulianti to thank

An' Jushtiss f'r All!

The Luckiest Perps

Scoundrel Time

Alex Gibney expertly captures the lies and fall of Enron

Doctor's Orders

South Florida's Smut Doctors broadcast filthy radio to the world

That FLIFF Fling

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Muck, Raked

A dirty journo gets busted in Shattered Glass

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Caribbean Sounds Great

Habitat for Inhumanity

The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters undermine both the Catholic Church and the popular image of Ireland

How Much Does Credibility Cost?

Boca Raton video producer Mark Kielar signed Cronkite, Brown, and Safer to host thinly veiled advertisements -- until the deal fell apart

Wally's War

Walter Philbrick's Hollywood lair is the one-stop shop for all your post-9/11 needs - and home to some truly odd characters

Let Me Kill Myself

Before he dies of Lou Gehrig's disease, Phil Snaith wants to accomplish one final goal: force the state to allow assisted suicides

Inside the Soap Box

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Lock, Stock, and 48 Smoking Barrels

A year ago Wayne and Danny Dagenais stole guns from a family friend. In an effort to keep then-16-year-old Wayne out of jail, their parents tried to retrieve the weapons. But the plan didn't work.

Moore Is Less