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Judge Allows Environmental Group To Join Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Lawsuit

As Miami-Dade County moves forward with its $12.6 billion plan to fix the aging water and sewer collection system, Federal Chief Judge Frederico Moreno yesterday awarded a significant victory to the Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper, an environmental group that claims the county proposal does not address sea ... More >>

Voter Suppression: Is Mayor Carlos Gimenez Like Fidel Castro?

In this Election, Rick Scott and Carlos Gimenez Are Acting Like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke assesses the election debacle in Florida.On the last Saturday of early voting, my wife and I stood in a line that went around the ... More >>

Miami Beach Fire Dept. Recruit Claims He Was Tea-Bagged, Racially Abused, And Fired For Complaining

Brian Gentles wanted to be a firefighter even before he arrived in America from Jamaica at age 12. There was something simple and noble about solving other people's problems, not to mention saving their lives. "I was fascinated by putting water on a fire," he says.Now, however, it's the City of Miam ... More >>

We Can't Trust Carlos Gimenez And Katherine Fernandez Rundle To Stop Absentee Ballot Fraud

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke wants the feds to investigate the latest election fraud scandal in Miami-Dade.President Barack Obama needs to send the Justice De ... More >>

Cuba Owes U.S. $7 Billion For "Forgotten" Property Claims, Lawyers Propose 10% User Fee

​When Fidel Castro swept down from the mountains and routed Fulgencio Batista's forces, one of the first things his revolutionary regime did was to seize the property of American citizens and companies.In the more than 50 years since, nearly 6,000 American citizens have filed certified claims agai ... More >>

Miami Prison Employee Pleads Guilty to Gay Sex With Inmates

​In pornos, prison-guard-on-inmate sex makes for a reliable plot. In real life, it makes for a pretty serious crime. Just ask Jack Chris Jackson. The former employee at the Federal Correctional Institute in Miami pleaedd guilty to having sex with numerous inmates and now could face up to 15 years ... More >>

Insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

Manuel Orosa Named New Miami Police Chief

New Miami Police chief Manuel Orosa​Manuel Orosa has been named the new Chief of Miami Police.Orosa now officially inherits a department currently under investigation by the Department of Justice for seven fatal police-involved shootings in a six-month stretch of last year.Since taking over as act ... More >>

Miami PD's Seven Fatal Shootings Last Year Now Being Probed by U.S. Justice Department UPDATED

The fallout from ex-chief Miguel Exposito's reign hasn't ended yet.Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn't ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito's force, the U.S. Just ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch is dangerous

Barack Obama Can't Afford to Let Fox News Fold

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke goes to bat for Fox News.Rupert Murdoch is reaping what he sowed. The media magnate's American-based cable network, Fox News ... More >>

Time for Miami Tax Evaders to Come Forward, Warns Local Attorney

The days of hidden offshore accounts are drawing to an end, it seems​Not everyone in Miami is on the up & up. Sure, your neighbor could have bought that brand-new Mercedes-Benz with the Christmas bonus. Or it could have been that narco slush fund in the Cayman Islands. The truth is that ... More >>

Krazy Locos, Florida's Most Redundant Gang, Gets 237 Years in Prison for Murder, Drugs

Krazy Locos 23-year-old leader Jonathan Gonzalez, sentenced to 135 years in prison yesterday​South Florida gangs are a ruthless and bloody bunch, whose names strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. Lately, however, those names have gone bilingual. And redundant.Six members of the Lake Worth- ... More >>

Al Sharpton Wants Justice Department to Investigate Miami Police Department

​Mayor Tomás Regalado isn't the only powerful enemy Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito has made in his relatively short run atop the department. Now, national civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton is calling for a federal investigation into the Miami Police Department. ... More >>

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 >>

Cuban spy Juan Pablo Roque's jilted ex-wife won $27 million for his deception

Van Peebles, Borowitz, S.L. Price at the Book Fair

Capitalism: A Love Story sells the same old Michael Moore shtick

City manager wants fired employee back on the CIP

City Tells Police Review Panel to Rehire Deadbeat Manager for $85K Amid Huge Budget Cuts

In January, Shirley Richardson got canned as executive director of the Civilian Investigative Panel, the voter-created group that polices the Miami Police Department.​According to panel members, she rarely showed up for work and was a terrible manager when she did. To top it off, Richardson demand ... More >>

The Hand of Justice

Lost in the immigration morass and mangled by the system.

The Herald Kuehne Connection

Kiss and Expel

Miami Police administrators dole out cold-hearted dating advice

– How to Get Away with – MURDER

A woman witnesses her boyfriend's murder, is then raped, and now faces criminal charges herself. Unbelievable but true

The Greenpeace Effect

Environmental advocates claim they just want loggers to play by the rules. But Brazilian mahogany barons, local lumber lords, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Port of Miami all want these tree-huggers stopped

Happy on the Outside

Everglades National Park's sub-surface tsuris

The Big Cypress Deal

The cover story is conservation, but the Bush boys have their hands in the taxpayers' pockets again

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

As Nasty as He Wants To Be

Miami Beach sours on Luther Campbell's Memorial Day freak show

The Girl with the Tonton Heart

Years after the Haitian diaspora, Papa and Baby Doc's children are still wandering

Waiting for Otto

Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

Paradise Lost, Again

As Miami Beach prepares for life in wartime, it's on its own

Bird of Paradox

José Basulto, president of Brothers to the Rescue, is a CIA-trained warrior who insists he supports nonviolent resistance. Complicated? Sí, señor.

Elian Plus One

An INS agent discloses blatant anti-Cuban sentiment surrounding last year's raid, and apparent attempts at a coverup. The result? He's threatened.

Friendly Fire

State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle should have coasted to election victory. Instead she's dodging bullets from the police unions in the political fight of her life.

The Last Temptation of George Petrie

He was supposed to turn up dead. His friend, attorney Robert Roth, was supposed to wrap up his affairs. Now they've ended up mortal enemies.

In Pursuit of Willy and Sal, Part Two

Having lost their case against the drug kingpins, federal prosecutors vowed to convict jury foreman Miguel Moya of bribery. Didn't quite work out that way.

Howard Gary Sings

Absentee Ethics

That thoughtful Diaz de la Portilla boy has found a way to help out voters. What a guy!

Witness for the Prosecution

Bruce Udolf spent seven years arguing public corruption cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami. A report from the front lines.

Policing the Police

An investigation into complaints about police use of excessive force confirms what many citizens already believe: Cops cover for cops

Letters

Dead Wrong

Miami's murder rate is going up, up, up, right?

Hour Town

Six months after its debut, the county's scheme to keep teens out of nighttime trouble gets mixed reviews

Big Wheel Keep on Turnin'

Outgoing U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey has a little farewell soiree, at which everyone remains fully clothed

GET THE KIDS INSIDE! BOLT THE DOOR!

Toxic sewage spawns swamp monsters; officials say no cause for alarm

Scalded

A long-time aide. A few thousand dollars' worth of dubious insurance receipts. A cauldron of allegations. U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey has been . . . scalded

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Spend a Saturday morning standing in line to buy Stones tix at Eckerd? Wild horses couldn't drag us away!

The Rearranging of the Guard

With Dexter Lehtinen and Diane Cossin out of the U.S. Attorney's Office, the public can look forward to unprecedented openness, right? No comment.