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Pain & Gain: Where the Real-Life Sun Gym Gang Characters Are Now

They juiced harder than Mark McGwire, pumped iron faster than a Lamborghini Diablo's pistons, and made it rain on more strippers than Juicy J at King of Diamonds. To finance their voracious…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5281 words)

South Florida Millionaire Irving Moskowitz's Millions Thwart Middle East Peace

The bulldozers arrive at dawn on a Sunday. In the inky twilight of this crisp January morning, several bearded men creak open a barbed-wire gate to grant entry to the three Caterpillar machines. For…
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5229 words)

Puerto Rico's Wave of Drugs and Brazen Murders Reverberates to Miami

Julio Ramos Oliver died over a spilled drink. It was just after midnight January 20, and Old San Juan shook with the fiesta de San Sebastián. Under the golden glow of street lamps, more than…
PUBLISHED: March 19, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5221 words)

How Russell Faibisch Built Ultra Music Festival -- and Whom He's Battled Along the Way

Russell Faibisch left the Outback Steakhouse on 21st Street in Miami Beach on March 12, 1999, the night before he was to launch his huge beachside electronic music festival. "We had a big family…
PUBLISHED: March 12, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3966 words)

Jim Greer: Racism and Dead Bodies Ahead

Hidden among the shadows in a cavernous banquet hall, Florida's most notorious backroom politician sips his third cup of complimentary coffee and begins to cry. Jim Greer, the 50-year-old embattled…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1336 words)

Marissa Karp Murder: A Decade of Investigation Pays Off

A weak breeze was pushing in from the south, rippling the broad boulevard of water as it caught the midmorning sun. The canal, wide as a football field, ran north to south, slashing an engineered…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4431 words)

Is Charlie Crist Florida's Next Governor?

Days before this past November's election at a cramped deli off Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura, a new yellow Camaro glided into the parking lot and hummed to a rest. An Obama 2012 sticker was pasted…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 8, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5582 words)

Everglades Airboaters' Nasty Battle Over Big Bucks

Out in the East Everglades along the Tamiami Trail, on the thin strip of asphalt that runs between Miccosukee Resort & Gaming and Naples, plenty of dangers await the unsuspecting visitor.…
AUTHOR:Jon Tayler
PUBLISHED: Dec. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1417 words)

Garrett Holeve, an MMA Fighter With Down Syndrome, Is on His Way to Changing the Sport

"I'm dangerous," 23-year-old Garrett Holeve warns as he bounces around a bedroom in his parents' suburban, single-story house, throwing punches and kicks. A pungent combination of protein-powered…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4325 words)
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