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Long before Luther Campbell and 2 Live Crew spewed their raunchy, explicit lyrics on America, there was Blowfly. Born Clarence Reid in 1939 in Cochran, Georgia, he credits his...
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This past December 13 around 10:30 p.m., three Miami Lakes councilmen — Tim Daubert, Nelson Hernandez, and Richard Pulido — huddled inside a bar a couple of blocks...
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Shortly after 4 p.m. October 1, food truck operator Troy Thomas tweeted an urgent bulletin to his 1,855 followers: "The rolling stove was stolen today if anyone has seen it...
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Over the past six months, Erik Fresen has established himself as the go-to politician for the gambling tycoons who want to bring gargantuan casino resorts to the Magic...
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'Twas one Friday night in January last year when the owner of Miami's longest-running holiday festival failed miserably in his attempt to mack on a woman at a limo...
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When Lea Black agreed to participate in the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Miami, the wife of the most powerful criminal defense attorney in the Magic City believed it...
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Long before Luther Campbell and 2 Live Crew spewed their raunchy, explicit lyrics on America, there was Blowfly. Born Clarence Reid in 1939 in Cochran, Georgia, he credits his...
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When it came to betting against the Seminole Tribe of Florida, prominent businessman Jason Starkman didn't know when to walk away — yet so far he has still come out...
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Miami is a great place to throw away public money. This is spectacularly apparent to the 108,500 folks on the Dolphin Expressway who pass the new Marlins stadium every day....
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On a recent rainy afternoon, Barbara Tuitt sits on the covered front porch of her tidy four-bedroom house in Little Haiti. A poster of Jesus Christ hangs on the tan wall...
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In true South Florida fashion, a pill mill that trafficked thousands of illegal oxycodone tablets was operating right in the heart of Miami-Dade County government, the feds...
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With a $417,000 campaign war chest, Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is the top rainmaker of the five candidates running in next week's November 1 election. The incumbent from...
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Nariz sat at a table inside the Dunkin' Donuts on Alton Road at 16th Street in Miami Beach. It was late afternoon this past May 12 as the fidgety 33-year-old Colombian waited...
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A disgraced former Miami-Dade County commissioner and a Hialeah businessman once banned from getting county contracts are making big bucks off the red-light camera blitzkrieg...
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It's great to have Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman as a pal when you don't want to pay a city bill. Consider the case of Prime Home Builders, a company owned by a family of...
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Joe Carollo's Chevy Impala idles at a red light on North Bayshore Drive at NE 14th Street. Dressed in a neat white polo shirt tucked into pressed khaki pants, the former Miami...
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This past August 28, shortly after Miami-Dade firefighter Miguel Rodriguez arrived for work at the Miami International Airport station, he found an unsigned note in his...
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The morning of August 21, a pesky intruder found itself caged in the lush back yard of Richard Chervony's three-bedroom residence in North Bay Village. Bearing its fangs and...
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One recent afternoon, while waiting for the light to turn green on NE 36th Street at Second Avenue, I am transfixed by a yellow homemade-looking sign stuck to a railroad...
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The Miami-Dade County boot camp is one of the nation's most successful at turning around young criminals. Less than 7 percent of its graduates are re-arrested within a year,...
