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2012 Stories by Michael E. Miller

• Lavont Flanders Sentenced to Life In Prison For Making Rape Porn

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Lavont Flanders will spend life in prison, a federal judge decided yesterday. The former Miami Beach cop was convicted in December of more than a dozen counts related to drugging and raping women on c... More >>

• Miami-Dade's Most Dangerous Intersections: Hooters, Highways, and Heavy Traffic

  published Feb 15, 2012

  Miami is infamous for its bad drivers. Climbing behind the wheel is a contact sport here, like running through Little Havana with an "I (heart) Fidel Castro" T-shirt on.So, prompted by a reader compla... More >>

• Farmers' market fiasco: Miami-Dade Health Department squanders $15 million

  published February 16, 2012

  Farmers' market fiasco: Miami-Dade Health Department squanders $15 million More >>

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  LeBron James Immortalized in Giant Foam Sculpture, Dwyane Wade is Next

  published Feb 13, 2012

  The Miami Heat's "Big Three" just got even bigger. A Miami Beach entrepreneur has taken it upon himself to build 18-foot foam sculptures out of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh -- complete wi... More >>

• Miami-Dade Health Squanders $15 Million From Feds Meant to Bring Farmers' Markets to Town

  published Feb 13, 2012

  Remember President Obama's stimulus packager The $787 billion bill was supposed to goose this country's ailing economy like a line of premium yeyo. Here in Miami, it was also booked to save us from ou... More >>

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  "Occupy Tha Hood": Occupy Miami Takes Over Overtown Apt. Building UPDATED (Video)

  published Feb 10, 2012

  On Tuesday, January 31, hundreds of cops forcibly shut down Occupy Miami's tent city at Government Center, ending nearly four months of protests.But instead of heading home, dozens of protesters myste... More >>

• Vanessa Brito Submits Petition for County Commissioner Term Limits

  published Feb 09, 2012

  Lost in the din of Mitt Romney's guttural Mormon victory cry and Newt Gingrich's helium-like baby whine -- we're not sure what Santorum sounds like -- was the fact that there was actually an important... More >>

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  Carlos Miller Arrested For Photographing Police Crack-Down on Occupy Miami UPDATED

  published Feb 06, 2012

  Local journalist Carlos Miller has a blog called Photography is Not a Crime. Apparently Miami-Dade police officers are not avid readers.County cops arrested Miller on Tuesday night as he was filming t... More >>

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  Planned Parenthood Raises Cash From South Floridians Enraged at Komen UPDATED

  published Feb 03, 2012

  rThe Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood has set off a firestorm of debate across the country. Some Komen chapters have rebelled and several top Komen executives ... More >>

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  Mitt Romney's Victorious Hair Helmet and Five Other Things We'll Miss About the GOP Primary

  published Feb 01, 2012

  Mitt Romney won yesterday's Florida GOP primary, but we all know who the real victor was. Not Obama. And certainly not the country. No, el gran ganador was Willard's perfectly sculpted mop of Mittitud... More >>

• Boucher Bros. Expands Beach Monopoly With No-Bid Contract for Surf and Paddleboarding

  published Jan 31, 2012

  In early January, Miami Beach lifeguards suddenly began ordering surfers, paddleboarders, and kitesurfers to ditch their local haunts and move south of Third Street. City officials had supposedly just... More >>

• Boucher Brothers enrages SoBe surfers with no-bid board-renting contract

  published February 2, 2012

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  Matheson Hammock Park's Proposed Boat Warehouse Has Gables Residents Enraged UPDATED

  published Jan 27, 2012

  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... More >>

• Angela Castillo Says South Miami Hospital Fired Her For Grieving Her Dead Brother

  published Jan 27, 2012

  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 ... More >>

• Deep Dredge Delayed: Port Officials Optimistic, Environmentalists Ready to Go the Distance

  published Jan 26, 2012

  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 Riptid... More >>

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  Miami Dade College Bookstore Unfairly Stifling Competition, Says Student Entrepreneur

  published Jan 24, 2012

  Buy cheap, sell high. The motto is more capitalistic than Mitt Romney's hair. Miami Dade College student Mike Rozinsky knows it all too well. Last year the sophomore business major started his own com... More >>

• Newt Gingrich Calls for New Cold War With Cuba, Ron Paul Says One Was Enough

  published Jan 24, 2012

  The 3 a.m. phone call has struck again. In tonight's GOP primary debate, NBC anchor Bryan Williams asked the candidates what they would do if told that Fidel Castro had finally died and "half a millio... More >>

• Luis Posada Carriles Could Be Extradited to Panama for Allegedly Plotting to Kill Fidel

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles may have beaten charges in Texas last year, but the aging anti-communist operative ain't in the clear just yet.A Panamanian lawyer requested his extradition today... More >>

• Rape Porn Continued As Prosecutors Bungled Case Against Ex-Cop Lavont Flanders

  published Jan 18, 2012

  Last December, a federal jury convicted Lavont Flanders Jr. and Emerson Callum on 32 combined counts of fraud and sex trafficking.It was a gut-wrenching crime. Prosecutors proved that Flanders, an ex-... More >>

• Escaped Prisoner Caught Behind Burger King During Hialeah Manhunt

  published Jan 18, 2012

  Juan Preval could smell freedom, or at least freedom fries.The 28-year-old escaped prisoner was caught hiding in a drainage canal behind a Burger King yesterday. His discovery ended a 90 minute manhun... More >>

• Lavont Flanders, ex-cop rapist, struck again after prosecutors let him free

  published January 19, 2012

  Lavont Flanders, ex-cop rapist, struck again after prosecutors let him free More >>

• Burmese Python Imports Now Banned in U.S.; No More Snakes On These Motherf**in' Planes

  published Jan 17, 2012

  rKen Salazar, our cowboy hat-wearing Secretary of the Interior, is expected to announce a ban on importing Burmese pythons today while visiting the Everglades. "The Burmese python has already gained ... More >>

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  Seven "Occupy FIU" Protesters Arrested UPDATED

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Last November, "Occupy FIU" gathered at the Deuxieme Maison pit on the school's West Miami-Dade campus and decried excessive student loans, Wall Street bankers, and money in politics.Yesterday, they t... More >>

• U.S. Inspectors Approve Cuban Oil Rig 70 Miles Off Florida Coast, Ros-Lehtinen Slams Obama

  published Jan 11, 2012

  When it comes to Cuba, President Obama can do little right in the eyes of exilio politicians. When he eased travel restrictions to the island, for example, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen accused him of unde... More >>

• Submarine War: South Florida Start-Up Takes on Millionaires in Race to Bottom of Ocean (Video)

  published Jan 10, 2012

  Last month, New Times took readers up into the air in home-built airplanes (read "Paper Planes"). This week, we're taking you underwater in submarines capable of diving thousands of feet below the oce... More >>