Did you even watch, bro? During yesterday’s World Cup Final — Germany beat Argentina 1-0, by the way, if you’ve been in a dark room with nothing but good memories and your tears since LeBron James announced he was, you know, never mind — a young man bolted onto the…
Prospectors from Texas oil company Dan A. Hughes won’t be drilling throughout the Big Cypress Swamp watershed anytime soon. That means (1) diminished revenues for Old Florida plutocrats Barron Collier, (2) one fewer threat to the Florida Panther and other species, and (3) one fewer worry for Collier County residents…
The Miami Heat had a rough weekend, what with LeBron James deciding to fly the proverbial escape pod back to Cleveland, where he’ll try to win titles for a guy who once very publicly called him a coward. But something happened when all the dust settled. The Heat was still…
A man says Dolphins center Mike Pouncey and his brother Maurkice assaulted him at Cameo Nightclub in Miami Beach last night, where the often-troubled Dolphins center and his twin behemoth brother were holding their annual birthday bash. UPDATE 2: Here’s our Monday morning update on the investigation, including the incident…
As your resident Clevelander living and working now in South Florida, let me just say that I’m glad this roller-coaster has finally hit the breaks. A couple weeks back, when someone told me LeBron might re-sign with the Cavs, I brushed it off as homer, pipe-dream BS. After one shirtless…
LeBron James has told Sports Illustrated that he’s going back to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers. In a letter dictated to SI’s Lee Jenkins, LeBron says that he’s going back home, and decided not to have a press conference in order to better explain himself…
A Florida judge took the GOP and their redrawn congregational district maps from 2012 to the proverbial woodshed on Thursday, when he ruled that the maps were drawn up illegally. Second Judicial Circuit judge Terry P. Lewis called the maps a mockery to the rules of transparency when he ruled…
Rick Scott couldn’t have found a better man than Bill Scherer to be special counsel in the Digital Domain fiasco. A veteran litigator with more than his share of courtroom wins, Scherer is sure to look for every possible legal grounds to sue the authors of flim-flam man John Textor’s…
So, turns out, according to ESPN, that the reason the entire basketball world is still being held hostage by LeBron James’ indecision is over Cavs owner Dan Gilbert’s infamous 2010 comic sans letter where he publicly blasted James. In the letter, Gilbert called LeBron’s choice to freely sign with another…
Ever seen a gay man’s living room? A bloody, mounted head of some Christian is not, I repeat NOT, there. But Rick Wiles, a former marketing exec for Trinity Broadcasting Network, thinks otherwise. According to him, gay rights activists are the second-coming of Nazis, because both groups were trying to…
Police in Ocala yesterday responded to a public call about an apparently crazed woman doing yoga in the middle of a road. On their way to the scene, someone else phoned 911 to inform them the lady had begun “stripping in the streets,” according to the probable cause affidavit. Wearing…
Back in April, residents of Lake Mary (a small Florida town outside Orlando) said they’d seen a neighbor feeding a black bear. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) workers went to see what was up, only to find several bears responding to officers, looking and expecting food. A number…
So it’s come down to this. For now is the hour of desperation. While the world waits (still!!) for LeBron James to make his decision on where he’ll sign, and the Internet is being scoured for clues like a Dan Brown novel, South Florida sports talk radio station 104.3 FM…
A Broward man with the logo for Bentley luxury automobiles tattooed on his face has been charged with identity theft to file fraudulent income tax returns. Because what better way to pretend you’re other people than with a car logo tattooed on your face? He also has a shark tattooed…
The troubled Tribune Company – the newspaper conglomerate that includes the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and local Sun Sentinel as well as other dailies across the US — is reportedly being eyed by the biggest, baddest, paper baron left in world publishing: Rupert Murdoch. Yesterday afternoon, journalism insider site Poynter…
Daniel Soligny had a good life, except for the whole health insurance thing. He didn’t have the most glamorous job, sure, but spending 14 hours a day on rollerblades at Sonic Beach Miami Gardens kept him active, and his girl, Jacqueline, was always by his side. Although he was 20…
Eddie Wayne Davis, from Polk County, will be the seventh execution in the State of Florida so far this year when — at 6 p.m. today — he’s injected with midazolam hydrochloride, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. In 1994, when Davis was 25, he was in a community development in…
With the vote on medical marijuana a mere four months away, a group chaired by both those who advocate and those who are opposed to medical weed has formed a Blue Ribbon Commission to provide research, expert opinions, and feedback on a wide range of medical marijuana issues. Florida For…
The following is an excerpt from the book Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball’s Steroid Era, published by the Penguin Group and released this week. The story began in Miami New Times. Frankie Ratcliff’s phone buzzed just before 7:30 p.m. September 10, 2010. The text…
We love our tourists, if only because they keep a large chunk of our economy running. But like anything we love, they sometimes annoy us. As the barrage of summer break tourists pours into South Florida this month, let’s review the things that bother us most about our money-spending visitors,…
The first time Tim Morgan smoked Afghani weed, he thought, “I like this.” The 20-year-old Sante Fe College student was hanging out in his Gainesville apartment with his high school girlfriend and about ten friends. Everyone was huddled around a single measly joint. “I thought it wouldn’t last long, and…
Valarie Joaceus looks beat. Inside her tidy living room in North Lauderdale, the blinds drawn tight against the July sun’s bite, she’s slumped on a leather couch, a heavy-set, middle-aged mom overloaded with worry. Joaceus’ two sons — 26-year-old Jonathan and Gregory, 25 — have had their trouble with police…
