In Miami, a city where almost 77 percent of people speak a language other than English at home, the language barrier between rideshare drivers and passengers can be pretty real — so real, in fact, that one bilingual Miamian wrote an open letter asking Uber to implement a language option.
Scot Peterson, the Broward Sheriff’s Office school resource officer who failed to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the February 14, 2018 massacre, was fired today and arrested on 11 criminal charges related to his conduct the day of the shooting.
For eight years, Carnival Cruise Line’s ships systematically dumped waste into the ocean and lied about it to regulators. After being convicted of seven felony charges related to the conspiracy, the company in 2016 agreed to a record fine of $40 million and five years of probation.
The attorneys who helped secure the Flores settlement — an agreement that sets standards for the detention, treatment and release of migrant children — filed a motion today to enforce the settlement at the Homestead shelter for unaccompanied minors.
Since it reopened last year under the Trump administration, the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children has quickly expanded. But two former employees claim they weren’t trained — or paid — properly for their work at the shelter. And after they complained, they said, they were fired.
In 2017, Miami Beach voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to move last call from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Ocean Drive. But at a recent meeting, the city’s police chief, Dan Oates, suggested closing area bars even earlier — at midnight — during the busiest two weeks of spring break.
Fane Lozman’s U.S. Supreme Court victory against the city of Riviera Beach is highlighted in Matthew Billy’s new podcast about censorship, called Bleeped.
Alessandra Mondolfi was painting hearts on a poster board outside of the Homestead child migrant camp last Friday when she spotted a pair of law enforcement officers walking toward her. An artist and activist who’s part of a group of protesters maintaining an almost daily presence outside the facility, Mondolfi…
Henny & Waffles, a traveling hip-hop brunch party that features Hennessy and a waffle station, has been described as an “affordable, good, clean and fun environment.” Founded by a D.C.-area duo, it’s aimed at young professionals and has made previous stops in Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York City.
For the third year in a row, Verizon Wireless is offering a free STEM summer camp at Florida International University with the admirable goal of increasing minority representation in science and math fields. But apparently they forgot that girls, too, are underrepresented. The camp is for boys only.
Earlier this week, a salacious video started making the rounds on social media. In it, a woman books it down a Miami Beach street, tailed by a man with nary a thread of clothing on his body. “Stop her!” he yells. “She’s got my Rolex!”
Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
Just in time for graduation season, the folks at Hotpads are out with a new study showing that housing is becoming impossibly expensive for recent grads. Analysts with the site found a typical graduate would have to spend a staggering 77 percent of his or her income on the median monthly rent in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area.
Last year, the City of Miami kicked Ultra Music Festival, one of the best-known electronic music festivals in the world, out of its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. And now, after what can only be described as a challenging edition on Virginia Key this past March, Ultra’s…
This year, the city has sought out local artists of color to curate installations and exhibits aimed at black visitors. The goal is to change perceptions of Memorial Day weekend and of Miami Beach.
When Kaitlin McKeon was confronted with the results of her drug test, she already knew what it would show: positive for marijuana. Before she’d even enrolled in the nursing program at Nova Southeastern University, the bubbly then-23-year-old had told school officials she had a medical marijuana card and used the drug to relieve her chronic stomach pain.
South Florida counties may prohibit teachers from carrying weapons.
A new study from Apartment List has found the Magic City has the sixth-highest income inequality among the country’s largest metros, with a wealth gap that jumped 7.5 percent between 2008 and 2017. The highest-earning households made nearly 14 times the lowest earners, according to the research.
A steward on the Norwegian Cruise Line Spirit is accused of using a master key to let himself into an 11-year-old girl’s room, where he sexually assaulted her, according to a recently filed federal lawsuit.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber was so irked by a Memorial Day weekend event flyer with a bikini-clad woman and the tag line “No rules!! Anything goes!”, he included it in an email blast to residents explaining why the city needs, well, more rules. Attaching a screenshot censoring the woman’s body, he declared, “Ocean Drive should be the postcard image for our city — not a stretch where residents are sometimes afraid to go and visitors think anything goes.”
Miami officials have long been supportive of the First Tee, a nonprofit that teaches golf and life lessons to thousands of kids at the city-owned Melreese Country Club. City leaders lined up for a ribbon-cutting ceremony when the charity opened a new learning center in 2013 and praised it for helping local youngsters. More recently, Mayor Francis Suarez became an honorary chairman of the nonprofit’s Young Ambassadors Board.
As one of the few women on staff at a Broward County office, Shatia Sims says she endured almost constant sexual harassment from her male co-workers. Sims is now suing Truly Nolen for harassment and discrimination.
