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Two Men Stole From Cars to Buy Ultra Tickets

Is there really that much difference between a car alarm and your average Skrillex track anyway? Two young men were arrested in Doral on Wednesday for stealing from cars. They later admitted they planned to sell the stolen items in order to buy Ultra tickets. 

Man Arrested in Doral for Stalking Ivanka Trump

John Eugene Enabnit may be homeless, but apparently he's found a way to match Ivanka Trump's jet-setter lifestyle.Enabnit was arrested Sunday at the Trump Doral Golf Resort & Spa after trying to contact the Donald's daughter. He had just been arrested back in February for harassing Trump at a pe ... More >>

Banah Sugar, Hialeah Firm Promised Big Tax Breaks, Files for Bankruptcy

Things have gone sour for Banah Sugar. The fledgling, troubled Hialeah-based sugar company has filed for bankruptcy protection less than a year after city and county leaders renamed a local roadway "Banah Sweet Way" and promised to give the firm $400,000 in tax breaks if it hired 300 people. On Jul ... More >>

Herald Unveils Most Boring Sun Life Stadium Headline Ever

If you were one of the dwindling number of people who still wake up to the physical edition of The Miami Herald you were greeted by news you've likely known about for roughly 24 hours now: the Miami Dolphins are asking for tax money to pay for a $400 million upgrade to Sun Life Stadium.So did the He ... More >>

The Miami Herald Paywall Goes Live Today; New Times Remains Free, Hooray!

If you tried to click through the Miami Herald's site this morning, you were in for a nasty surprise: The salad days of riding that Herald gravy train for free are over, you freeloader. Starting today, that Fred Grimm addiction of yours is gonna cost ya, up to $15.99 a month.Here at New Times, we're ... More >>

Florida Republicans' Ballot Fraud 2012

Spanish Language TV Host Frank Cairo Stole Kmart Chairs From Doral Apartment

Frank Cairo is used to being on camera. He currently works for TV Azteca, but has had hosting stints on Univision, Telemundo and Mega TV. Though, his latest on-camera work shows him stealing two lawn chairs and a rug from his neighbors apartment in Doral. Cairo, whose real name is Ivan Valdés, was ... More >>

Calle Ocho 2012 music and entertainment guide, March 11

Calle Ocho 2012: An 11-Stage Music and Entertainment Guide

​It feels like only yesterday that we were shaking our hips with Gloria Estefan in a record-breaking 119,969-person conga line at Calle Ocho. But that was March of 1988, Reagan was in still office, and Miami New Times was only a fortnightly newspaper, not the massive multimedia empire that it is ... More >>

Pay Your Respects to Fernando Perdomo's Late Mother, Araceli, This Friday

​Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Forward Motion Records CEO and Dreaming in Stereo frontman Fernando Perdomo. The musician's mother, Araceli Perdomo, died last night after a five-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 66 years old. Like her son, Araceli Perdomo was a local ... More >>

FBI Arrests Hialeah Gardens Cop Jorge Romero for Being Part of Thief Gang

​For 13 years, Hialeah Gardens Police Officer Jorge Romero has been charged with patrolling his city for crime. This morning he found himself charged with an actual crime. FBI agents arrested him for alleged participation in a gang of thieves that terrorized cargo trucks and made off with valuable ... More >>

Exposito: City Officials Offered $400,000 To Resign As Police Chief

​A story that started yesterday with blogger Al Crespo posting a mysterious, voided city check for $200,000 ended with more ammo fed into the raging firefight between the Miami Police Department and City Hall when Chief Miguel Exposito admitted the check was part of a huge payout he was offered to ... More >>

Havana Hosts Its First Independent Gay Pride Parade, Sort Of

A flyer for the event featured Prado Avenue's lion sculptures dressed in drag.​It's quite a human rights paradox. Next month, the Cuban parliament will discuss a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on the Communist isle, yet GLBT citizens are, like all Cubans, discouraged from gathering and ... More >>

Cuban Government Attacks Coral Gables Candidate For Mayor

By Michael McElroyJames Cason's battle with Cuba continues.​Cuba's communist government is looking to disrupt James Cason's run for Coral Gables mayor, bringing some Cold War era spookiness to the City Beautiful's election season. Earlier this month, the American ex-diplomat, whom Fidel Castro nic ... More >>

Shock nightclub's owner skips town without paying his bill

Eddie House's "Big Balls" Dance: The Origins

​It's pretty fun watching South Florida's daily newspapers try to describe the "crotch-related gesture" that got Miami Heat guard Eddie House fined this week. Or, more specifically, not try-- because the Herald can't get away with saying "testicles" unless it's a cancer-related story, and eve ... More >>

Mindy Marques: Savior of the Miami Herald

​More than two decades ago, I sat down to work in a sterile office in Doral, and a young woman next to me began swearing like a sailor. "Coño," she said louder than any office voice I had ever heard. "This salad sucks."Mindy Marques Gonzalez was the little sister to a bunch of determined newspape ... More >>

Ponzi Schemer Who Did Business With Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina Pleads Guilty

Proceeds from a $40 million ponzi scheme were used to buy Lladros just like this one.​Yesterday, Luis Felipe Perez, a Hialeah jeweler who federal prosecutors say swindled $40 million from victims who invested in his Ponzi scheme, agreed to plead guilty to one count of securities fraud and one coun ... More >>

Mega Future

Okay, so Jaime Bayly ain't Jay Leno. But little Mega TV is listo for the big-time.

Little Havana Heights

Flourishing among kitsch, a couple of gems off Calle Ocho

Bye Bye Tommy

The Fugitive

Patricia Poleo, a Venezuelan journalist and political activist, is accused of murder. She's in exile in Miami.

Good-bye Tommy

Waterfront Access Is for Commies

"Miami residents should take development where we can get it. It’s basically our last chance."

Copycats

In this age of artistic appropriation, everything is fair game

The Bitch

Shrinking Eyelets

The Bitch

Blind Item

Myth Makers

Good thing Che Guevara died young, otherwise film directors and book authors would be at a loss

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

Where can terrorists find safe harbor? If you're of the Cuban exile variety, right here.

Timing is everything

Rolando Barral's long, bumpy ride as the Johnny Carson of Latin TV

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of October 11, 2001

The Dissection of Miriam Alonso

Corruption investigators are delving into the county commissioner's every financial nook and political cranny

From Ports to Puertas

Looking back on ten days in spring that changed the landscape

Best Erratum

"Newspaper rewrites paragraph, reveals possible Castro infiltration of U.S. government radio station"

Sex! Sin! Sensation!

That's El Nuevo Herald. All the news that's fit to print, as long as it's short, simple, and easy to read.

Hackin' at the Herald

The Miami Herald took on the world's biggest news story -- and flopped

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of March 2, 2000

According to Granma

Threats and Violence Lead to Tragedy

Riptide

Weaving tangled Webs

Nice Guy, Wrong Job

Letters

Dateline Havana

Tenacious Cuban journalists Olance Nogueras and Lazaro Lazo were strangers in their homeland. Now they are strangers in ours.

Seduction in Seclusion

Letters

Before Duran and After

Cuban exile and WRHC-AM sports talk-show host Minito Navarro has always had a passion for punchers

Adios, Amigo

The short and sour career of El Nuevo's Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Just Tell Us When You Get Bored

The Herald flew a Cuban diplomat down for a visit from Washington A but you probably don't care about trivial stuff like that

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