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Miami Sex Offenders Live on Train Tracks Thanks to Draconian Restrictions

By Terrence McCoy
Mar 13, 2014

Darkness has swallowed the train tracks. It won't be long until the men arrive. At 9:50 p.m., the first pair of headlights punches through the black, and a white Ford pickup rolls into the parking lot of a large warehouse sitting among the nameless structures dominating the Miami-Hialeah border. Within...
Dozens of Sex Offenders Are Now Forced to Camp Out in a Hialeah Parking Lot

By Terrence McCoy
Mar 12, 2014

Darkness has swallowed the train tracks. It won't be long until the men arrive. At 9:50 p.m., the first pair of headlights punches through the black, and a white Ford pickup rolls into the parking lot of a large warehouse sitting among the nameless structures dominating the Miami-Hialeah border. Within...
Facebook Holds Clues to Teen's Gang Rape

By Terrence McCoy
Mar 6, 2014

Late in the evening on a hot November night, a blue Dodge Challenger rolled to a stop outside a two-bedroom yellow house in Hollywood. A 16-year-old girl with wavy hair and brown, sad eyes sat in the passenger seat. A Samsung Galaxy glowed in her hands. Watching her send text...
Florida Man Terrified of Spiders So He Tattooed a Giant One on His Face

By Terrence McCoy
Feb 21, 2014

Eric Rico Ortiz has never seen a spider he liked. He's terrified of them. When he sees them scuttling through his Deltona house, he scampers away in fright. So at the end of last year, he thought long and hard about that fear. And then he did what any well-reasoning...
Screw You, Miami Beach Parking Authority

By Terrence McCoy
Feb 20, 2014

Dear punk-ass Miami Beach Parking Authority: Last week, you towed my 2013 Jetta sitting outside my house at 14th Street and Meridian Avenue and then scuttled into the night, leaving neither trace of my vehicle nor your chicanery. So when I set out on foot in search of my car...

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