As Etelvina Ramos Mamani recovered from giving birth in her home in the rural highlands of Bolivia, a military sharpshooter fired a single bullet through her small bedroom window, striking her 8-year-old daughter Marlene in the chest. The woman held her daughter as she died.
The basic rules of employment are simple: Show up for work; get paid. Repeat over time. But when Nancy — who has been stripping for almost two decades in various clubs in Oregon and Florida — shows up for work, she has to pay to be there.
Some of Florida’s estimated 300,000 medical marijuana users have learned the hard way that although it’s legal to use cannabis to relieve certain conditions, they can still face consequences at work and school.
When voters get pissed off enough about what their local politicians are doing, they can try to oust them. It happened in March 2011 when then-Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez was removed from office following a high-profile campaign bankrolled by billionaire car dealer Norman Braman.
After almost seven months in immigrant detention, Dayana Lopez finally feels free in her new home in Jacksonville. Lopez came to the United States after fleeing Cuba in December 2018 following years of threats, beatings, and stints in jail because of her gender identity and political beliefs.
The first week of Roger Stone’s criminal trial in Washington D.C. began with an impressive number of unfortunate events and theatrics. A courtroom spectator had a seizure, Stone left early the first day of jury selection because of “food poisoning,” InfoWars jackass Alex Jones threatened to out a juror (Hello, Justice Department?), and the presiding judge ordered the jury not to watch The Godfather.
In April 2017, a pregnant woman requested a ride home in an UberPool after a doctor’s appointment at a Miami clinic. But what she thought would be an inconsequential encounter turned into a nightmare: After the driver dropped off the other passenger, the woman says he forcibly kissed her, groped her breasts, and placed her hand on his erection.
While fans cheered the Miami Heat during yesterday’s home game against the Houston Rockets, a group of demonstrators filled three rows inside the American Airlines Arena in support of Hong Kong protesters and their demands for democracy.
In early August, North Miami immigration attorney Jill Grucan accompanied one of her clients to an interview for his application for U.S. citizenship. Her client, a 54-year-old with Down syndrome, was born in Venezuela to Cuban parents and became a permanent U.S. resident in 2015.
About a hundred years ago, Florida’s bonneted bats inhabited large hollows of mature pines and glided over the vast space of the Sunshine State’s 180,000 acres of pine rockland while feeding on insects.
Snapchat apparently had a boner to pick with Dr. Michael Salzhauer, better known as Dr. Miami, a plastic surgeon who regularly broadcasts his procedures on the social media platform.
When was the last time you stormed your parents’ bedroom in a fit of childish rage for not getting that thing you wanted? When you were a petulant little shit of a 6-year-old, maybe? So before diving into Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent shenanigans, it’s worth noting he is 37 years old and, seemingly, a fully grown adult man.
Coral Gables city commissioners have approved moratoriums on vape shops and stores that primarily sell CBD products.
A former Hialeah Police sergeant claims he was fired in retaliation for testifying in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the department was illegally requiring officers to meet ticket quotas.
When Ben Carson was in Miami two years ago, he got stuck in an elevator at an Overtown housing complex. The Housing and Urban Development secretary had gone on a national “listening tour” of public housing developments weeks after his 2017 confirmation.
On any given day behind the wheel in Miami, someone will send a text while doing 85 on I-95, run a traffic light a solid eight seconds after it turns red, cut across four lanes of a highway to make an exit, or slow to single-digit speeds to make a right turn without using their blinker. Just choose your fighter.
Florida’s next legislative session doesn’t begin until January, but already, lawmakers have filed dozens of bills with the potential to drastically change the way things are done here in the Sunshine State.
Another week, another study telling us what we already know about Miami’s housing affordability crisis: The rent is too damn high, and residents of the Magic City are more burdened by rental costs than those of any other U.S. city.
A person barred from buying a gun under Florida law is also prohibited from buying ammunition — but currently, there’s nothing to stop them from going to a gun shop and walking out with a few boxes of ammo.
Clifford Williams Jr. and his nephew Hubert Myers spent more than four decades in prison for a murder they didn’t commit. The men were at a party in Jacksonville in the early hours of May 2, 1976, when two women in a nearby apartment were shot while they slept.
Just before 4 a.m. January 15, a Miami-Dade man woke up in his car outside a strip club with bruises on his face, his extremities bound, and his hands gruesomely burned.
King tides happen during storms; king tides happen when it’s warm. Moon proximity makes oceans swarm. King tides during fall are the norm.
