Last month, a judge upheld Coral Gables’ ban on Styrofoam products, finding that a state law barring the city from enforcing the ordinance was unconstitutional. Now some city officials want to take on another notorious pollutant: plastic bags.
Two years ago, parents in Naples clashed over the books being taught at their kids’ schools. Members of a conservative group found fault with classics such as The Catcher in the Rye for including “homosexual themes” and The Great Gatsby for highlighting the “moral decay of the wealthy.” Those kinds of debates could now happen statewide if a bill by Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, of Naples, becomes law.
A Miami Police officer made himself the executor and sole beneficiary of an elderly man’s will.
Last summer, the Miami Gardens Police Department held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new “Real Time Crime Center” — a command-center-like room equipped with video walls and laptops where detectives monitor what’s happening around town. The city pitches the center as a boon for a high-crime corner of Miami-Dade, but the heavy surveillance also makes civil rights activists uncomfortable in a city already rattled by one major police harassment scandal.
In November, Floridians overwhelmingly voted to legalize medical marijuana. Seventy-one percent of voters backed Amendment 2, requiring the Legislature to make rules by July 3. By September, medical pot is supposed to be available statewide.
Rebecca, a rookie actress, stood in front of a full-length mirror in the living room of her middle-aged director’s Miami Beach apartment. Osvaldo Strongoli hovered behind her, his eyes on her reflection. “Take your shirt off,” he commanded. She hesitated: Strongoli had already made her uncomfortable by using a brief…
Anne Posschelle rides her bike to and from work every day on the tree-lined, waterside Indian Creek Drive. But one night last week, as she neared the curve by 26th Street, she was horrified to see that almost all of the foliage — including protected mangroves — had vanished.
A culture of misogyny and macho bullying at Magic Leap, a high-profile, billion-dollar virtual-reality startup based in Broward, has put the company behind schedule on its launch date, according to a new lawsuit.
Ah, a day at the beach: sunny skies, white sand, gentle waves, and floating LED billboards for Señor Frog’s.
Children sleeping on the streets. Strained police, fire-rescue, and emergency medical services. An increase in homelessness, robberies, and crime. A resolution from Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman paints a bleak picture of the potential pitfalls of medical marijuana, which was legalized in Florida with support from 71 percent of voters last November.
Miami Beach city commissioners plan to require that parking garages built in the future can be converted into housing.
The video is dark and grainy, but according to the family and attorneys of Junior Prosper, it shows a Miami-Dade Police officer fatally shooting him as he crawled away along I-95. The footage — obtained from a nearby business — is a key piece of evidence…
There were plenty of references to tiny hands — one sign even featured a pair of moving doll hands — and to nasty women.
A Miami company pairs tourists with professional photographers who document their trips. “If you don’t put up a picture of where you went,” the founder says, “it’s like you didn’t go.”
Poor Jeb! After patiently waiting his turn to run for president, he was walloped mercilessly by schoolyard bully Donald Trump. The Donald branded him a “low-energy” candidate and gleefully taunted him for deploying his mother in campaign ads (“Jeb – mom can’t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin,” Trump tweeted).
“Hillary Clinton is like a godmother,” Evelio Medina says, chuckling. “She created us.” Trump got crushed in Miami-Dade on Election Day, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have die-hard backers in this blue county — few more vocal than Medina, who has embraced Clinton’s use of “deplorables” to describe…
Less than 1 percent of Florida gun transactions were denied due to mental health issues in recent years.
The surfboard bobbed in the rolling waves off Huntington Beach, its fins facing toward the darkening sky. At first, the other surfers — at least a dozen of them, all soaking up the last bit of sunlight that late Sunday afternoon — didn’t notice. Then the yelling began. “Hey!” came…
Esteban Marcelo Guzman-Santiago, of Fort Lauderdale, received death wishes on Facebook after users thought he was the gunman who opened fire at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Esteban Santiago has been identified as the shooter who opened fire at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to NBC News.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has confirmed five people are dead in a shooting in Terminal 2 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Club Madonna is suing the City of Miami Beach, arguing that officials are trying to drive the strip joint out of business.
