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  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Rick Scott Still Wants To Drug Test State Workers As Miami Court Hears Challenge

    ​Never before has America seen a governor so obsessed with forcing other people to pee in cups as our own Rick Scott. Two of the first orders he issued after taking office required welfare recipients and all state employees to urinate into cups -- all to make sure drug fiends aren't secretly infil ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    In 2011, Luther Campbell ran for mayor, sued Nevin Shapiro, and called out rappers

    ​Never before has America seen a governor so obsessed with forcing other people to pee in cups as our own Rick Scott. Two of the first orders he issued after taking office required welfare recipients and all state employees to urinate into cups -- all to make sure drug fiends aren't secretly infil ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    Michelle Bernstein: Magic City Martha Stewart

    ​Never before has America seen a governor so obsessed with forcing other people to pee in cups as our own Rick Scott. Two of the first orders he issued after taking office required welfare recipients and all state employees to urinate into cups -- all to make sure drug fiends aren't secretly infil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Bangkok, Phuket, and the Miami Gym Teacher Who Got 15 Years in Prison for Molesting 70 Boys

    via Wikitravel.orgPhuket.​After a pedophilia world tour that got him arrested in Thailand in 2006, former Miami gym teacher Charles Todd Stokes has been sentenced in U.S. federal court to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of molesting 70 boys, according to media reports.The Thai tow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Black Tuna Pot Smuggler Gets Five Years In Prison After Three Decades On The Run

    ​One of the strangest chapters from Miami's pot-smuggling glory days came to an end in federal court today, when a judge sentenced Mark Steven Phillips -- a long-lost associate of the Black Tuna ring -- to five years in prison. Phillips fled during the gang's infamous 1979 trial and hid under fake ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2011

    Mayor Luther Campbell would tax strippers for the public good

    ​One of the strangest chapters from Miami's pot-smuggling glory days came to an end in federal court today, when a judge sentenced Mark Steven Phillips -- a long-lost associate of the Black Tuna ring -- to five years in prison. Phillips fled during the gang's infamous 1979 trial and hid under fake ... More >>

  • News

    December 23, 2010

    Bikini model tries to sue Luke

    ​One of the strangest chapters from Miami's pot-smuggling glory days came to an end in federal court today, when a judge sentenced Mark Steven Phillips -- a long-lost associate of the Black Tuna ring -- to five years in prison. Phillips fled during the gang's infamous 1979 trial and hid under fake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Florida Judge Worried Obama Might Make Us All Buy Broccoli

    via​A federal judge today began hearing arguments in outgoing Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's lawsuit against the Federal Government, which alleges that forcing citizens to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The trial is expected to be an in-depth, mature and scholarly proceeding. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Today In Cocaine: Ten Busted in Juarez-to-Miami Ring, Colombian Coke Lord Due In Federal Court

    ​It's already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami -- or at least for the feds' perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then came word that a muc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    China Grill, Prime One Twelve Latest to Be Sued by Ex-Employees for Tip Skimming

    China Grill in South Beach is in hot water over a recent lawsuit​When we head to most South Beach restaurants, we customers expect to get fleeced: $200 steaks, $50 sushi rolls, $15 mineral water. But the employees? According to two lawsuits filed earlier this summer, fancy South Beach restaurants ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Porn Site Cocodorm Loses Latest Round of Legal Battle With City of Miami

    ​The latest judgment in the ongoing legal battle between Cocodorm and the City of Miami is a bit of a boner killer for your friendly, local gay porn voyeur site.Cocodorm owns a house on 27th Street east of Biscayne Boulevard, a short walk from New Times HQ, where several men, primarily African-Ame ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2010

    Manley Business

    ​The latest judgment in the ongoing legal battle between Cocodorm and the City of Miami is a bit of a boner killer for your friendly, local gay porn voyeur site.Cocodorm owns a house on 27th Street east of Biscayne Boulevard, a short walk from New Times HQ, where several men, primarily African-Ame ... More >>

  • News

    February 11, 2010

    Cutler Bay man smuggles cigarettes through the Port of Miami and goes to prison

    ​The latest judgment in the ongoing legal battle between Cocodorm and the City of Miami is a bit of a boner killer for your friendly, local gay porn voyeur site.Cocodorm owns a house on 27th Street east of Biscayne Boulevard, a short walk from New Times HQ, where several men, primarily African-Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Republicans Want Fair Districts Initiatives Off Ballot

    via FDF​On first glance it seems a little strange that despite the fact Florida is a classic swing-state that currently actually has more registered Democrats than Republicans, that the GOP controls both houses of the state legislative by large majorities and sends more Republicans to the House in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Hialeah Boat Captain Gets 3 Years for Human Smuggling

    The young Hialeah boat captain caught transporting eight immigrants to Boynton Beach this past January will serve up to three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra sentenced 28-year-old Jovel Dominguez-Hernandez to 36 months yesterday for human smuggling. The indictment notes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    'I Was Cooperating with Evil': A Former Gitmo Prosecutor Sounds off About a Corrupt Process

    Two years ago, when Darrel Vandeveld flew to Guantánamo Bay to work as a prosecutor, no one else believed more in the detention camps and all they stood for in the War on Terror.Courtesy Wikimedia Commons"I was totally gung ho," Vandeveld tells Riptide. "I was convinced that we actually had the 'wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Obama's Chief Counsel Dismissed from 'Black October' Case

    Two months ago, the New Times brought you the story of the "Black October" legal case in Miami's federal court, where a handful of poor Bolivians are suing Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada and Carlos Sanchez Berzain -- Bolivia's former president and defense minister -- for allegedly leading the mass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    Florida Supreme Court Takes Three Amendments Off the Ballot

    Two months ago, the New Times brought you the story of the "Black October" legal case in Miami's federal court, where a handful of poor Bolivians are suing Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada and Carlos Sanchez Berzain -- Bolivia's former president and defense minister -- for allegedly leading the mass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    BREAKING NEWS: Liberty City Seven Verdict -- Give up, Mukasey!

    Two months ago, the New Times brought you the story of the "Black October" legal case in Miami's federal court, where a handful of poor Bolivians are suing Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada and Carlos Sanchez Berzain -- Bolivia's former president and defense minister -- for allegedly leading the mass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    New Times Owners Arrested

    Two months ago, the New Times brought you the story of the "Black October" legal case in Miami's federal court, where a handful of poor Bolivians are suing Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada and Carlos Sanchez Berzain -- Bolivia's former president and defense minister -- for allegedly leading the mass ... More >>

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    Golden Conflict

    This judge has some 'splainin’ to do

  • City Life

    May 12, 2005

    BEST HERO

    Judge William Hoeveler

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST JUDGE

    William Hoeveler

  • City Life

    May 17, 2001

    Best About-Face

    Latin Grammys

  • Culture

    February 15, 2001

    Cough It Up

    The man who created Josie and the Pussycats can't understand why his girls don't belong to him

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    Frank Talk About Free Speech

    Attorney Victor Diaz chats up the ACLU's Howard Simon

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Full Metal Racket

    Attorney John Mattes led a crusade on behalf of lost commandos. Now he wants his millions.

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    Stealth Indictment

    Attorney John Mattes led a crusade on behalf of lost commandos. Now he wants his millions.

  • News

    June 16, 1993

    Birds Do It, Bees Do it

    But is that any excuse for Matthew Block's lawyer to send Shirley McGreal a card that shows zebras doing it?

  • News

    April 28, 1993

    Gorilla Warfare: Part 2

    Ape trader Matthew Block has been sentenced in the case of the Bangkok Six. But the monkey business continues.

  • News

    March 11, 1992

    The Further Adventures of Willy and Sal

    Chapter Two, in which the alleged drug kingpins are linked to a cellular telephone smuggled into their unit in the federal pen

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