The strip search played out in broad daylight on a sidewalk near Mana Wynwood: As Wendy Matute screamed for help, two male Miami Police officers held down her arms while a female officer held her legs apart. Another female officer, Annette Delgado, unzipped Matute’s shorts, pulled them partway down, and reached inside to grab three baggies of suspected drugs.
Every year for nearly a decade, Fred Guttenberg took the stage at his daughter Jaime’s dance recital for a routine called “Dancing Dads.” The number featured all of the dance dads doing their best to follow choreography and ended with all of the girls joining their fathers onstage.
Last week, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv visited a gun range with his dad and practiced shooting an AR-15. He later posted about the experience on Twitter, where he uploaded a video of himself firing at a silhouette target.
As the white Chevy Tahoe hurtled toward Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Broward schools Superintendent Robert Runcie jammed an iPhone to his ear. Between a never-ending stream of calls from reporters and school staffers and politicians asking questions he couldn’t yet answer, he dialed Sheriff Scott Israel. Just a few hours…
Looking at an Instagram collage that featured Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz smiling for a selfie above a photo of a handcuffed woman on the ground, Civilian Investigative Panel member Courtney Omega had to double check his rank. “This is a captain?” she said during a Tuesday meeting of the…
Ever since Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior David Hogg began pushing for gun control in the wake of the massacre at his high school, he’s been a target for conservatives. An aide to Republican state Rep. Shawn Harrison called Hogg a crisis actor. Laura Ingraham blasted him for “whining” after being rejected…
After the mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, most Florida teachers were horrified by the push from President Donald Trump and GOP legislators to arm teachers. But one vocal Parkland faculty member — science teacher Sean Simpson — said he would be open to packing heat in the classroom.
Alessandro Renzetti was getting ready to go to sleep when he heard screams outside his Normandy Isles home. He ran outside barefoot and saw his neighbor crying as she tried to pull her beagle from the grip of another dog. At least, he thought it was another dog.
Time and time again, the teenage survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have proven they are excellent at social media clapbacks. So it should come as no surprise that they’re flooding the web with images of their new mandatory clear backpacks stuffed full of tampons, memes, and even live fish.
For decades, Coconut Grove residents have trekked to a sliver of land at the end of St. Gaudens Road to enjoy the rare unencumbered view of Biscayne Bay. Someone even put a bench there. But enjoying the view hasn’t been easy since a mysterious developer — reportedly hired by the heir to a Venezuelan oil fortune and onetime coup leader — snapped up the lot next door.
The reviews of GAINSWave, a procedure in which men get their nether regions blasted with sound waves for better erections, are actually glowing. A Men’s Health reporter who has also tried gas-station sexual enhancement pills and something called “red light therapy” — all in the name of journalism — wrote about sprouting a boner during dinner with his grandmother after giving the sonic treatment a go last spring.
A few days after the Parkland massacre, freelance photographer Emilee McGovern staked out a rally and planned to take just a few quick shots of the speaker before walking around the crowd to get reaction photos. But when Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior Emma Gonzalez started talking, McGovern found herself unable to…
James “Michael” Montgomery thought he was going to get hit when a Miami cop pulled in front of his scooter at a busy intersection and tried to make a left turn, despite a sign indicating left turns weren’t allowed. As traffic built up behind him at the green light, Montgomery frantically honked his horn and yelled, “No left turn!”
To Miami-Dade County insiders, it was no shock when Munilla Construction Management (MCM) beat out three other competitors to win a $14.2 million bid to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. That’s because Munilla is not only one of the biggest contractors in South Florida but also one of the most politically connected thanks to years of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaigns.
Two of the biggest firms that built the Florida International University pedestrian bridge that collapsed today have recently been accused of unsafe practices. In one of those cases, another bridge project toppled onto workers.
Cheryn Smilen seemed like someone who cared deeply about South Florida’s stray cat population. She helped the Cat Network with its sterilization efforts, fed cats for friends while they were out of town, and ran her own rescue where she listed dozens of cats available for adoption.
Victor Díaz de León slices through Biscayne Bay in a craft that looks more insect than boat, with a small sail and a pair of wings extending from a narrow carbon-fiber hull. As he glides at breakneck speed past downtown Miami’s skyline on a gray February afternoon, the vessel abruptly…
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio stood on the Senate floor and announced a plan he said could prevent mass shootings like the Parkland massacre that left 17 dead. Despite weeks of pleas from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors, his pitch had nothing to do with gun control.
Skateboarding came to Cuba in the early ’80s, when Soviet soldiers, doctors, and students brought boards to the communist island. Intrigued, kids in Havana soon began riding, using boards handmade from plywood or smuggled in from abroad. Though the sport was seen as rebellious and countercultural even in America, and the Cuban regime frowned upon it, a small but vibrant skate scene took hold.
Just after noon today, in the midst of covering what is arguably the biggest story in the nation right now — the Parkland high-school shooting spree that left 17 students and teachers dead — writers and editors at the Sun Sentinel received an email with the vague subject line “Staffing Announcements in Southeast.”
In the days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, student journalist David Hogg quickly rose to prominence for interviewing classmates while hiding from the gunman in a dark closet. But he wasn’t the only student to begin covering the awful story as he lived it. From the moment…
The day after a disturbed student burst into his former school with a military-style rifle and shot 17 people to death, Chris Grady was sitting at home, feeling “pretty useless.” The 18-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High kept thinking he should be doing something about the massacre.
