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Police say a woman went to great lengths to make sure her boss didn't miss his flight Wednesday -- she called in a bomb threat. Her delay tactics weren't taken lightly. Police on Thursday arrested Claudia De La Rosa, 31, of Sunny Isles Beach, on a charge of false report of planting a bomb. Here's what happened, according to the arrest affidavit. On Wednesday, a call and e-mail came into Miami International Airport, saying in Spanish there was a bomb on an American Airlines plane. It listed the flight number and departure time. ``The flight was delayed while MDPD searched...

Seems that former WSVN and WPLG reporter Olga Bichachi is sick and tired of the fluff her former employers pass off as news, reports SFLTV. She recently joined a group of protestors outside Local 10, and found time to give an interview that was posted on YouTube.

A Miami Southridge Senior High School teacher is accused of molesting a 14-year-old former student, police said. Frank Matthew Galatas, 28, was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor. Galatas was a first-year history teacher at the Miami-Dade public school, said district spokesman John Schuster. Two years ago, Galatas and the student became friends, Miami police said. The student's mother, a single parent, embraced the mentorship because she thought her son could use a good male role model, police said.

A law school professor has withdrawn a lawsuit accusing the legal blog Above the Law of publishing a "viciously racist series of rants" after reporting the professor's arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution. University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones dropped his lawsuit on Wednesday, nine days after he filed it pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He did not respond to a request for comment.*** Above the Law Managing Editor David Lat declined comment on Thursday, but in a blog post on Wednesday wrote that there had been no...

MIAMI TO REMIND CONGRESS WE ARE STILL AGAINST OBAMACARE Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009 Time: 4:00 PM Address: Intersection of S.W. 87th Avenue and 40th Street (Bird Road), Miami, Florida 33155 (La Carreta Restaurant) Maps: Google , Yahoo

Pope Benedict XVI / Fr. Fernando Isern Miami, Fla., Oct 15, 2009 / 10:32 am (CNA).- This morning the Vatican announced that Fr. Fernando Isern from the Archdiocese of Miami has been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to head the Diocese of Pueblo in southern Colorado. Bishop-elect Isern, 51, was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in southern Florida. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Miami in 1993 and has since worked at both pastoral and educational posts.His appointment as the fourth Bishop of Pueblo, succeeding Bishop Arthur Tafoya, will be officially announced to the faithful in Miami...

The Freedom Tower will play host to the first lady of the free world next week and we don't think anyone will be paying attention to what she has to say. Michelle Obama wil [sic] be the keynote speaker at a luncheon for the Florida Campus Compact 2009 awards ceremony on Oct. 15, reports the Miami Herald. But the lucky guests to the invitation-only event will likely be amped to see what Mrs. Obama will be rocking in the Miami heat. Some fashionable capris? A dressy halter top or sphaghetti-strapped get up showing off the world-famous Obama guns? Maybe she'll...

Since the media overlooks us, we will bring the message to them...at their stations' front door step.MEDIA PROTEST 'Can You Hear Us Now?'DATE:Saturday, October 17, 2009TIME: 2 to 3:30pmPLACE:CBS 8900 NW 18th Terrace, Doral FL 33172INFO: DC Works For Us, South Florida Tea Party, Operation Can You Hear Us Now Other protests in Broward County: - ABC 12:00 noon-1:30pm: 3401 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd, Pembroke Park, FL 33023 - NBC/Telemundo 4:00-5:30pm: 15000 SW 27 Avenue, Miramar, FL 33027 MORE EVENTS: calendar10/15/09 Michelle Obama is coming to Miami Let's give her a warm South Florida welcome with a Tea Party:...

WHAT: Miami Protest visit from Michelle Obama, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), Senator George LeMieux (R-FL), Congressman Allen Boyd ("Blue Dog Democrat"- FL) WHEN: Thu Oct 15, 2009: 11am – 12pm WHERE: Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College 600 Biscayne Blvd., Miami FL 33132 WHEN: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 11 a.m. WHY: A very good opportunity to gather and bring signs of protest against ObamaCare and Cap&Tax. Sen. Bill Nelson keeps his phone mail box in Washington full so constituents can not get through to him to express their disdain for the HealthCare bill. Sen. LeMieux just replaced Mel Martinez (who...

Thought the Dolphins were done adding celebrities to their ownership group? Apparently not yet. The Dolphins are working on a deal to bring Fergie on as a limited partner, and NFL owners during their meeting in Boston on Tuesday approved the Black Eyed Peas' singer as a potential owner.

Nearly 100 City of Miami employees made more than $200,000 last year Miami had only recently shed its notorious distinction as the nation’s poorest municipality, thanks to the buoying effects of the real estate boom, just in time to get clobbered by the nationwide recession/depression rooted in the collapse of that very boom. Now the good times are over, and the city faces declining revenues across the board... In calendar year 2008, a total of 97 city employees received more than $200,000 in compensation, costing taxpayers more than $22.76 million, according to documents prepared by the city’s budget office and...

Belkis Gonzalez, an unlicensed abortion worker, was on duty when a 19-year old woman arrived at the abortion clinic to complete an abortion started by Pierre Renelique the previous day. When Renelique failed to show up to finish the abortion, the woman gave birth to a little girl, Shanice Osbourne, who was moving and breathing at the time of the delivery. Gonzalez then cut her umbilical cord, shoved her in a biohazard bag with caustic chemicals, and tossed her up on the abortion clinic roof to hide her body from the authorities. Three years later, after substantial public pressure from...

Fire fighters rescue a 7-foot gator from a storm drain Urban myth our fat fannies! Miami-Dade Fire Rescue pulled a 7-foot, 150-pound alligator from a storm drain in a residential neighborhood Friday afternoon, just before it could burst from underneath the street and take its revenge on the person who flushed it down the toilet. Not really. No one knows how the reptile got stuck in the sewer, but our guess is it was flushed as a baby and then grew up in the sewers while eating rats, beef patties and the occasional chihuahua. Rescue officials think it just wandered...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Sooners have found themselves in a position they have not been since 2005: playing with a first season qb as well as aqcuiring 2 losses prior to conference play. That being said, it could have been easily avoided. Offensive Coordinator Kevin Wilson refuses to take chances offensively when the game is close. To some degree one can understand the hesitancy to run certain packages and plays with an inexperienced qb and the two top receiving threats absent, but that strategy should shift when playing from behind. As time becomes scarcer the degree of risk should be...

Here is the next event to fight against big government: FreedomWorks RallyDATE: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 TIME: 6 to 8 PM PLACE: The Renaissance at the Gables 2340 SW 32 Avenue, Miami, FL 33145 (Map) INFO: Elaine Laffey (954)-979-4375, South Florida Tea Party, FreedomWorks AGENDA: Discuss the battle against Obamacare and cap and tax. Also, find out how you can make a difference in these, and other important battles to come. Bring your signs and energy! MORE TEA PARTIES Tea Party Directories (What are Tea Parties? Check here) American Liberty Tour (several cities, thru October 13, 2009) Tea Party Express...

B>Temple Bet Shira builds the first drive-through Sukkah in Miami/> If popular corners in Miami have drive-through Starbucks, then why can’t popular synagogues have drive-through sukkahs? That’s what one temple in Pinecrest is promoting for the first time this fall during the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. So, if you can only spare a minute for your prayers, why not make a quick stop at Temple Bet Shira’s drive-through sukkah. According to the Miami Herald, Jews can visit the sukkah starting Friday at sundown at the onset of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The "McSukkah" will be up for a...

At least the 4th incident this month where homeowners stood their ground against intrudersNaked, grizzled and grumpy after having been rudely awakened, Robert E. Thompson, of Lake Worth, Fla., reached for his loaded .38 caliber revolver and shuffled his way out back where his dog was growling ferociously. The World War II veteran encountered a drunken man who couldn’t speak English; 26-year-old Jose Pasqual was trying to fend off Thompson’s Rottweiler/Doberman pinscher mix, according to the Palm Beach Post. Thompson pointed his gun at the intruder, who had just scaled a fence into his yard. Pasqual took a step towards...

Orlando, the vacation destination for millions of families worldwide, is getting a bit of a smackdown: Children's Health magazine, in an issue on newsstands Tuesday, has ranked the 100 best and worst cities to raise a family -- and Orlando finished almost last. Burlington, Vt., came in first, while Orlando finished 98th, ranking just above Miami and last-place Detroit. What doesn't Orlando have? Editors at the magazine dinged the City Beautiful for its relatively low per-pupil spending, high crime rates, low homeownership rate, high unemployment and the number of sex offenders and missing children per capita. Burlington, by contrast, was...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — An apparent dispute between two teenage boys at a South Florida high school Tuesday left one dead from a knife wound and the other in police custody. The school, Coral Gables High, was locked down, and students had to remain in classrooms after the authorities were alerted to the stabbing.

The government of Andorra has frozen “billions of dollars” in bank accounts linked to Iran, Venezuela, and a variety of terrorist groups, according to the daily Diairi d’Andorra, which publishes in Catalan. The Andorran move, announced on Thursday, was carried out in conjunction with a top secret U.S. Treasury investigation in Miami involving money laundered through Venezuelan banks that was transferred to corresponding banks in the United States. From Miami, the funds were then wired to accounts in Andorra that were controlled by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, members of his family and his regime. But the funds were also used...

've decided to move out of the Sunshine State. It's a bit more chilly here than I had expected. Some may say good riddance, but I'm no longer willing to live in a place where I can't get married, can't adopt children and where there are no state laws to protect me from being fired because I'm gay. And so my partner Keith and I have decided to sell the house, load up the dogs and head north, toward a decidedly warmer climate. To those who visit here, Florida must seem somewhat schizophrenic. We sell ourselves as a great place...

On the eve of the eight year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an FBI informant who infiltrated alleged terrorist cells in the U.S. tells ABC News the FBI missed a chance to stop the al Qaeda plot because they focused more on undercover stings than on the man who would later become known as 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta. Brian Ross reports on the undercover agent in al Qaeda. In an exclusive interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC World News with Charles Gibson and Nightline, former undercover operative Elie Assaad says he spotted and became suspicious of Atta in early...

Baruch Vega's cellphone hardly rings these days. It's not like 10 years ago, when the Colombian photographer of models was an intermediary between the Drug Enforcement Administration and powerful drug traffickers, and his phone rang off the hook with calls from federal prosecutors and attorneys in South Florida while he discussed poses with European models at his Miami Beach penthouse. Now Vega, 61, seems to be tired of living on the razor's edge. He wants to put behind him the world that in 2000 took him to jail in the United States on charges of obstruction of justice and money...

A few hundred protesters rallied in downtown Miami on a soggy Friday as part of a worldwide effort calling for the removal of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. ``I want to do anything I can against the tyranny of Chávez,'' said Pablo Carrillo, 25, an economics student at Florida International University who came to South Florida two years ago for his studies. ``I'm here for solidarity for those who suffer in Venezuela.'' The afternoon protest at the Torch of Friendship in downtown Miami -- a longtime setting for rallies for overseas causes -- was part of a day of protests against...

TV's `Burn Notice' sets up explosion at Arch Creek East Nature Preserve in North Miami It started with a deafening boom. Then came the powerful flames taking over the wooden planks of a North Miami bridge. Before long the fire was under control. With that, Burn Notice -- a show that revolves around a CIA operative working in Miami -- finished up shooting an action-packed scene in North Miami's Arch Creek nature preserve on Aug. 17. The episode, which is part of the show's third season, will air in February or March. ``It was a very controlled explosion,'' the show's...

Hitler's symbol of obliteration has become a beacon of hope A Torah once belonging to Adolf Hitler has survived 130 years and some of the worst times in Jewish history. Now all it had to do was make it one mile without being dropped. Piece of cake. The Torah will now be housed at Congregation Ahavat Olam, which received the holy scroll on Friday. It was a four year journey for the sacred artifact from a London repository, but the last leg pales in comparison to what it originally was destined for. Hitler confiscated the Torah and kept it...

Several Miami-Dade commissioners are demanding drastic cuts to Mayor Carlos Alvarez's budget amid revelations he gave generous raises to favored staffers while pushing for unprecedented job and salary cuts throughout the rest of County Hall.

Three thousand (according to local police estimates) patriots stood in the rain on Saturday afternoon and sent a clear message to our government that we have had enough! This is Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart's district. For more information on S. Florida events visit http://www.sflaconservative.com/ Grass roots at its very best. See video & photos. http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr76/renedel69/photo4.jpg http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr76/renedel69/photo3.jpg http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr76/renedel69/photo2.jpg http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr76/renedel69/photo1.jpg http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/rr76/renedel69/?action=view&current=tea_party.flv

P-Man Sam preceded 2 Live CrewHe was known as P-Man Sam. And as Sam Silvasteen. And he was involved in Miami’s rap scene before 2 Live Crew put it on the map. But the man born as Sam Ferguson will take that name to the grave after he was gunned down in his car Friday on the Florida Turnpike near Griffin Road. Police have no motive and are searching for a black car with clear tail-light lenses, according to The Miami Herald. The 47-year-old Miami native was recently involved with a New York-based urban lifestyle magazine called Don Diva. He...

Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders Unveil 2010 Swimsuit Calendar August 7, 2009   By Andy Kent MiamiDolphins.com Friday night on South Beach got about as hot as it could get - literally and figuratively when the 2009 Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders took to the runway in the courtyard of Casa Casuarina, formerly the Versace Mansion, for a fashion show and the unveiling of the 2010 Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders Swimsuit Calendar.   Monica Mason, Johanna Torres, Amy Madill and Fabiola Romero graced the cover of the new calendar and none of them knew that until the cover was unfurled from the balcony above...

MIAMI (AP) -- Someone is killing the horses of Miami-Dade County. Since January, police say at least 17 horses have been butchered, their carcasses left on roadsides or in stalls or rural pastures.

A Northwest Miami-Dade firearms company is gunning for $369,000 in incentives to keep a planned expansion in the county, even as other locales take aim at the importer and manufacturer's promised 258 jobs. A nearly three-decade veteran of the county, Taurus USA employs 135 workers and says it will add 123 jobs in an expansion that has drawn incentive offers from beyond Florida's borders, according to CEO and President Bob Morrison, who cited Georgia's courtship in particular. ``The [Georgia] governor sent his plane down for us and then took us on a helicopter tour for three days,'' Morrison said. ``From...

We've seen lots of wild haircuts in the world of real estate, but nothing like this. Condovultures: A South Florida private equity group purchased 51 new, oceanfront condo-hotel units in the luxury One Bal Harbour complex at $63 per square foot, a discount of 94 percent off of the $1,100 per square foot average recorded sales price, according to a new report from Condo Vultures® LLC. Elcom Condominium LLC with Jorge E. Arevalo and Thomas D. Sullivan in South Miami paid $2.6 million for 41,047 square feet of saleable space in the 124-unit Regent Hotel tower located on the west...

A Brinks security guard shot and killed a would-be robber who attacked him while he was making a routine stop at a South Miami-Dade health clinic Friday, according to witnesses. After the 2 p.m. shooting outside the Doris Ison Health Center, 10300 SW 216th St., Miami-Dade police arrested two other suspects after a search of surrounding neighborhoods. Miami-Dade police have not identified the dead man. Those arrested also were not identified. "According to investigators, shots were fired when three subjects, armed with firearms, attempted to rob an armored truck crew making a pick up or delivery at the health center...

During his budget proposal presentation last week, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said unprecedented steps needed to be taken to offset a $427 million budget shortfall. Alvarez proposed cutting nearly 18 hundred jobs, a 5 percent salary cut across the board and a slight hike in the property tax. Hundreds of angered citizens showed up to the steps of county hall in response to this announcement on Tuesday afternoon. They held banners, waved to traffic and shouted their displeasure with the proposed property tax hike. However, if the county doesn't raise taxes, it's bound to cut services.

MIAMI — An illegal immigrant from Indonesia is suing a former Catholic priest and TV star, claiming the priest sought to have him deported to protect his wife from scandal.Maxi Paulus Ratunuman (RAH'-too-noo-mahn) claims he was arrested June 6 on false trespassing charges by an off-duty police officer who provided security for the Rev. Alberto Cutie (KOO'-tee-ay). Ratunuman, who overstayed a tourist visa, was in a Miami jail Thursday.Ratunuman says he is the ex of Cutie's wife Ruhama Bune Canales.He says the three conspired to get him out of the picture because he was asking for money Canales owned him.

(CNN) -- Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League, days after he pleaded guilty to killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence of alcohol, the NFL said. Stallworth, 28, pleaded guilty in a Florida court Tuesday to DUI manslaughter charges in the March death of construction worker Mario Reyes. Under terms of a plea agreement, he will serve 30 days. Prosecutors said he began serving his sentence immediately. "The conduct reflected in your guilty plea resulted in the tragic loss of life and was inexcusable," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told Stallworth...

Fla. school likely named for Mourning over Reno By MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press Writer Advertisement Buy AP Photo Reprints Your Questions Answered Ask AP: Following Sotomayor, movie closed captions MIAMI (AP) -- Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno appears to have lost in an unlikely matchup with former NBA star Alonzo Mourning. A committee charged with deciding what to call a new high school in North Miami was considering naming it after one of the two, and last week chose the athlete and his wife.

MIAMI - Miami-Dade officials have decided to name a new high school after former NBA star Alonzo Mourning. The Miami-Dade School Board voted today to name the new North Miami school after Mourning, rather than former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

Accepting responsibility for the drunk-driving crash that killed a pedestrian on Miami Beach, NFL player Donte' Stallworth pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to serve one month in a Miami-Dade County jail. Stallworth, 28, was immediately taken into custody. After he gets out, Stallworth will serve two years of house arrest followed by eight years' probation, according to his plea deal. He will also lose his driving privileges for life and have to perform 1,000 hours of community service. Stallworth has also agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to the Reyes family. ''I will continue to bear this burden the...

MIAMI (June 14) - Authorities say a teenager has been arrested and accused of committing a series of cat mutilation deaths in his Miami area community.

MIAMI – Ex-Catholic priest Alberto Cutie will wed in two weeks, after sparking a scandal when he was photographed nuzzling his girlfriend on a Miami beach, The Miami Herald newspaper said. The wedding will be held in an Episcopal church here at a private ceremony for which several ex-police have been hired to ensure security, according to sources close to the religious. Cutie, born in Puerto Rico of Cuban descent, left the Catholic Church after the photos were published and weeks later announced that he was joining the Episcopal Church, for which he has already given his first sermon. The...

MIAMI (AP) -- A teenager was arrested early Sunday and accused of committing a string of gruesome cat mutilation deaths that had horrified residents of his Miami area community, authorities said. .... Some of the dead cats were missing fur and appeared to have been cut with a sharp, straight instrument, police said. .... Tyler Weinman, 18, was taken into custody early Sunday at a party, police said. Weinman was charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary.

Lima, Peru, Jun 3, 2009 / 06:28 pm (CNA).- The Anglican Bishop of Peru has said the “very lamentable” manner of Fr. Alberto Cutié’s entry of the Episcopal Church following a sex scandal will cause “deep problems” between the two communions. He remarked it was “too early” to have the former Catholic priest and media personality preach at Episcopal Sunday services like he did on Sunday. The Anglican website VirtueOnline.org reports that Anglican Bishop of Peru Bill Godfrey spoke about Fr. Cutié in an interview with Peru’s RPP-TV. The issue of Cutié's conversion affects Bishop Godfrey since the Episcopal Church...

CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz As we report below, Father Alberto Cutié has decided to join the Episopal Church. Some questions arise ... 1. What will his status be as a Catholic? 2. Is he excommunicated? 3. Will he still be a priest? 4. Will his sacraments be valid? I put them to canonist Msgr. Jason Gray, judicial vicar of the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., by e-mail. 1. What will his status be as a Catholic? HE IS IN SCHISM. 2. Is he excommunicated? YES Said Msgr. Gray: “Fr. Cutie is a Catholic priest joining a non-Catholic Christian denomination.  This is...

Archbishop John C. Favalora. Credit: Florida Catholic Miami, Fla., May 28, 2009 / 05:42 pm (CNA).- Archbishop John C. Favalora of Miami made a statement on Thursday afternoon in which he revealed that he was kept in the dark about Fr. Alberto Cutié's decision to join the Episcopal Church. The archbishop also stressed that by his actions, Cutié has forfeited his rights as a cleric but is not dismissed from the promise of celibacy he freely made. “I am genuinely disappointed by the announcement made earlier this afternoon by Father Alberto Cutié that he is joining the Episcopal Church,”...

The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the celebrity priest removed from his Miami Beach church after photos of him kissing and embracing a woman appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language magazine earlier this month, will leave the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami to join the Episcopal church. The small and private ceremony will happen early Thursday afternoon at Trinity Cathedral, the church's South Florida headquarters in downtown Miami. Bishop Leo Frade, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, will officiate. Later, Cutié is expected to announce that he will marry his girlfriend, whom media reports have cited as 35-year-old Ruhama...

FIVE MUSLIMS ARE CONVICTED OF A PLOT TO BLOW UP THE SEARS TOWER The headline from the Associated Press reads "5 Miami men convicted of Sears Tower attack plot". Read the story here ... then click back. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090512/ap_on_re_us/us_terrorism_investigation There ... did you notice anything. Though at the end of the story you'll see some references to al Qaeda .. nowhere in the story are these men identified as Muslims; and yes .. they were all Muslims. Another story identified them as "members of an apparent militaristic religious sect", but not Muslims. Radical Muslims can rant all week long about their...

MIAMI - A federal jury convicted five men Tuesday of trying to join forces with al-Qaida in a plot to topple Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices. A sixth man was acquitted. The verdict allows government prosecutors to claim overall victory in a case that dragged on for years and cost millions of dollars, resulting in two hung juries and the acquittal of a seventh man originally charged in the case.

He wants you to buy beer and smokes in Liberty City.It's tough to drive through Liberty City without running into President Obama. He's there on the side of Liberty City Elementary, next to the MLK portrait. He's painted on the walls of at least a couple of street-corner ministries. And at NW 12th Avenue and 58th Terrace, Obama waves happily in front of an American flag, right over the words ice-cold beer wine, a box of Newport cigarettes, and a tall can of Schlitz Malt Liquor. Crass commercial use of the president? No way, the owner says. "We're both Africans,...