In 1992, Hurricane Andrew, a CAT 5 hurricane and the second most destructive hurricane in U.S. history, came down upon the tiny city of Homestead, Florida with full force. Homestead, its air force base, and a small CDP within it called Leisure City were massively damaged. It took years to rebuild Homestead into the boring, [...]

Views From Mandarin Oriental Hotel at Night, Brickell Key
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Evils of the Internet
Exhibit @ The Wolfsonian

South Beach
TMI Boyz

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Graffiti On Sign:

Island Queen Cruises:

(somewhere an Indian cries)
Scarface’s House

(the world is yours)
CSI (Miami)

David Caruso is back!
Downtown Miami
Looking up at the Wachovia building at night
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Accident on Florida Turnpike

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First, a little background from the Family Auto Mart Website:
Brian Power, AKA “The Family Man”, opened the car dealership called Family Auto Mart in 1992, located at 1918 Aurora Road, Melbourne, FL. He bought 3 minutes of airtime on a local leased access car show. Instead of doing what everyone else was doing (walking car [...]

An overwhelming odor coming from nearly 50 chickens living inside an Orlando home may have been used to mask the smell of drugs in the home, according to officers investigating the discovery. A power company worker on Ridge Terrace off Beggs Road in the Lockhart area of Orlando was performing some routine maintenance work when he noticed a strong stench and called police. When officers investigated they found the home filled with chickens.

Josh Witter is the man.
Neither snow, nor rain, nor fire and brimstone will keep Joshua Witter from the swift completion of his appointed rounds come the end of the world. Witter, a 24-year-old self-described atheist living in Orlando, is the creator of the Post-Rapture Post, which bills itself as “the postal service of the saved.”
For [...]

Man Claiming To Be Christ Reincarnated Speaks In Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. — A man who claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ on Earth spoke to hundreds of followers at Lake Eola Saturday. Many people came to support him and many people also came to expose him as a fraud, WESH 2 News reported. Dr. [...]

Students: Showing your underwear at school may not pass your school’s code of conduct, but it won’t be a violation of state law. Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, agreed to withdraw his last-minute “Pull up your britches” amendment in a Senate education committee meeting — but not until both he and former school teacher Sen. Larcenia Bullard, D-Miami, offered a lesson to a group of students in the audience.

High School teacher caught having sex in van with 16 year old student:

Janet Lea Hughes mugshot
Janet Lea Hughes, 32, a teacher at Jackson Middle School, didn’t say anything after she bonded out of jail Wednesday night. Police said they caught Hughes just as she was about to have sex with a 16-year-old student in her [...]

Church Street Station - Can You Go Home Again?
From Tallahassee.com:
Only 1 bid comes in for Church Street Station
ORLANDO - Orlando developer Cameron Kuhn submitted the only bid this morning for the former Church Street Station complex owned by Lou Pearlman’s crumbling business empire. Kuhn offered $34 million, the minimum required by the bankruptcy court judge [...]

Jennifer Leigh-Manuell
Teacher Jennifer Leigh Manuell Suspended After Accusations Of Sex With Student:
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — A Brevard County teacher was suspended after being accused of having sex with a student. The woman who led the junior varsity cheerleading squad and taught physics at Edgewood Junior/Senior School is off the job and under investigation.
The investigation is [...]