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Matheson Hammock Park in 1972

​Marc Buoniconti is a hero here in Miami. His father, Nick Buoniconti, played on the legendary '72 team that went 17-0. After Marc's own career was cut short in 1985 when he was paralyzed while playing football for The Citadel, he and his father raised $350 million to start the University of Miami's Project to Cure Paralysis.

But Buoniconti is now being blamed for what critics say will be a blight on Coral Gables: a giant boat warehouse proposed for pristine Matheson Hammock Park.

"I've been coming to Matheson Hammocks as a kid," says local Charlie Girtman. "This would ruin it. It's going to happen over my dead body."
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​A four-month-old baby boy was on life support at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning while his father appeared in court on charges of putting him there. Yosi Mahlab, 30 of North Miami, stands accused of beating his own son on January 21. The child lost brain activity as a result of the attack.
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​Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez may think America is an evil imperialist empire, but his teenage daughter Rosines sure seems to love our dollar, dollar bill, y'all. The 14-year-old snapped a picture of herself posing behind a fan of United States currency and shared it on Instagram.
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​Portraying our first African-American president as the captain of a slave ship in a political ad probably isn't the world's best idea. Mark Oxner, a Republican running for Congress in the Orlando area, did just that. It's not so much offensive, really, as it is laughably terrible.
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​Mitt Romney has got his groove back.

Earlier this week, polls showed Newt Gingrich firmly in control of the Florida primary with a lead of as many as nine points. Then it became a virtual tie. Now two major polls show Romney is once again ahead of the former House speaker just days before Florida Republicans head to the ballot box.
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​​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that series.
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​At last, an explanation for why Rick Santorum has been acting so unhinged in the Sunshine State, from inviting an ex-Yahweh ben Yahweh member to open his campaign rally last weekend to making truly bizarre proclamations about rape: Turns out he's really tired!

Santorum, who will speak at the Miami Downtown Hilton today, is "visibly exhausted" and sleeping just four hours a night, The Washington Post reports. He's also losing so badly in Florida that he's just canceled all his Saturday events to head back to Pennsylvania to do his taxes.
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There are bosses, and then there are bad bosses. Orlando Valdez would seem to fall into the second category, at least according to Angela Castillo. When Castillo, a South Miami Hospital CAT scan technician, found out that her brother had unexpectedly died last month, she says she told Valdez that she couldn't come in to work for a few days and that he agreed. But when she called a week after the funeral, she says she discovered that she'd been fired for "job abandonment."

"It seems cruel," Castillo says. "He thought I was going to call him within two or three days but death doesn't work that way... They really just wanted to get rid of me because it's saving them a paycheck."
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The Port of Miami's much-debated "Deep Dredge" will be delayed for months -- possibly years -- as a Tallahassee judge hears arguments for and against the project this August.

Port officials tell Riptide that they are optimistic the project will still be completed on time. But a lawyer representing environmentalists says his clients are prepared to go the distance to prevent the port expansion.

"In the event we are not successful in finding a mutually acceptable solution we will continue with the challenge, take the case to trial, and seek a judgment prohibiting the dredging from going forward in any manner," says James A. Porter.
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​Increasingly distant third place candidate Rick Santorum is desperately trying to jump start his campaign, so he's come out with a bold new attack on the Obama administration: college is evil.

"It's no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go college," Santorum told an audience in Naples, Florida, yesterday according to The Hill. "The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination."
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​You've surely heard Martin Niemöller famous quote about the German intellectual and religious communities complacency during the Nazis' rise to power in 1930s Germany. It includes the line, "Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew."

Well, Rick Scott decided to appropriate the quote today to defend Mitt Romney from criticism of his former company Bain Capitol. What the hell? Criticizing someone's business practices is no where remotely close to "coming for the Jews."
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​The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index is out, and Cuba continues to have the least freedom of the press in our part of the globe. No other country in the Americas even comes close to Cuba's lowly ranking. Meanwhile, the United States fell 27 places in the rankings in a worrisome development.
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​A former student at Ronald W. Reagan/Doral Senior High School has filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming that his face was used to illustrate a school newspaper article on sexually transmitted diseases in teenagers. After the article, kids teased him with the nickname "STD Boy".

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​Click here to read Cultist's interview with "Shit Miami Girls Say" co-star Michelle Sicars.

Miami may pride itself as a trendy city, but we sure do take a long, long time catching up on Internet trends. Finally, more than a month after the initial "Shit Girls Say" video dropped and then caused a ridiculous tidal wave of parodies and imitators, someone has gotten around to putting together a "Shit Miami Girls Say."
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​Things aren't getting much better for Newt Gingrich in Florida. Yesterday, three different polls showed that he's lost his lead over Romney in the state, and now his campaign has admitted his now infamously fiery response to a South Carolina debate question about his ex-wife's claims he wanted an open marriage was based on a big, fat, full-out fib.

Now, the latest Quinnipiac poll shows that Gingrich would lose in a landslide to President Obama in Florida, which questions his viability as a general election candidate.

Meanwhile, ol' Mittens Romney ties with Obama in the Sunshine State.
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​It's a not a true Miami saga unless it includes a full out brawl on a Spanish language talk show, so it's really no surprise that during a taping of Cristina Saralegui's Telemundo show yesterday Corey Eubanks, the man who was arrested as an accomplice in the case of accused fake butt doctor Oneal Ron Morris, was attacked by the mother of one of Morris's alleged victims.
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​The Miami Herald has officially found its new home. The newspaper is moving to the former headquarters of the United States Southern Command in Doral. Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo to staff this morning announcing the move. The Herald has sold its current headquarters, right off Biscayne Bay in the Omni area, to Malaysian casino developers Genting Corp., and will have to move by May 2013.
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​Tyler Weinman, the South Miami-Dade man who was once accused of killing several pet cats, is now suing Miami-Dade County for negligence that lead to his false arrest. The case was dropped in 2010 after an expert hired by the defense found that several of the carcasses of the cats had bites caused by a large animal.
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