It turns out the accidental shooter is a Miami Police officer. And he isn’t just any cop: A department spokeswoman confirmed to New Times this afternoon that the officer is Mario Gonzalez, a police firearms instructor.
Amendment 4 was supposed to automatically restore voting rights for former prisoners after their sentences were over. But Florida Republicans clearly weren’t happy about that and passed a law forcing ex-inmates to pay a slew of exorbitant court fines and fees before getting their rights back — a law derided as a 21st-century version of a Jim Crow-era “poll tax.”
During his TV appearance, Sen. Marco Rubio essentially dared the Iranian regime to attack the U.S. and see what the hell happens. And despite the fact that the U.S. is preparing plans for an Iranian invasion while sailing an aircraft carrier into the region, Rubio is spinning the entire ordeal as something the U.S. is nonsensically being forced to do.
In 1958, Robert Phillips stole a thin, meter-long portion of Stonehenge, which he kept in his office for decades as he moved from England to Richmond, New York; Chicago; Ventura, California; and ultimately Miami-Dade County. Last week, English Heritage, the charity that manages Stonehenge, announced on its website that, on the eve of his 90th birthday, Phillips had finally returned the broomstick-sized rock fragment.
Kodak Black’s Fort Lauderdale-based lawyer, Bradford Cohen, is crying foul — not only because his client was arrested once again, but because one of the cops involved took an unauthorized photo of Black in handcuffs and leaked it to WSVN Channel 7 News.
The Florida GOP is, in a nutshell, using the larger powers of the state to restrict small governments everywhere — actions that expose the party’s “small government” platform as a flat-out lie. Here’s a list of bills that explain why.
A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas warns that Miami-Dade County is at high risk for a measles outbreak. Analysts ranked every county in the United States — and, according to the data, Dade has the third-highest risk in the country.
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…
Giancarlo Granda, the former Fontainebleau pool attendant who bizarrely received $1.8 million in loans from famous evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr., officially denies knowing anything about alleged “racy” photos referenced in a Reuters story published yesterday.
Yesterday, the South Miami City Commission unanimously passed a resolution saying the city will transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by the year 2040.
GEO, a Boca Raton-based company now considered the largest private, for-profit prison firm in America, held an annual shareholder meeting today in New York City — and a majority of shareholders passed a resolution demanding that GEO better report human-rights policies and violations to investors.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida declared yesterday that this was, by its estimation, the worst legislative session for civil rights in ten years.
Unfortunately, more rain is coming. The National Weather Service today warned that more severe thunderstorms are marching toward Miami as we speak.
This past Friday, CBS News confirmed that John Kelly — the former Homeland Security chief and White House chief of staff under Donald Trump — had joined the board of Caliburn International, the for-profit company that runs the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in South Miami-Dade. The news is…
Civil rights activists have been begging Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle for weeks to arrest county police officer Alejandro Giraldo, who was filmed brutally arresting Dyma Loving, a woman who was simply trying to report that a man had threatened to murder her with a shotgun.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has two sons who magically keep getting involved in some pretty lucrative deals with the Miami-Dade government. Julio Gimenez is reportedly part of a group looking to build an “eco-friendly” steel mill in Miami-Dade County. And, in what absolutely must just be a coincidence, the county has proposed selling Julio’s company a plot of public land for $16.8 million in a no-bid deal.
Importantly, local cops have warned the measure will likely make Floridians less safe.
Tomas Kennedy, one of the more active civil rights organizers in Florida, helped put together a large-scale protest at the Florida capitol. In response, he’s been banned from the public building for a year and can’t come back for next year’s session.
The Florida Legislature today passed a bill legalizing the use of self-driving cars statewide. Naturally, Uber — which could save gobs of money by replacing human drivers with robots — is quite pleased.
In a statement sure to remind critics of the runup to the Iraq War in 2003, longtime Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart suggested on Fox News last night that Russian agents in Venezuela currently have the capability to strike the United States with nuclear bombs. Diaz-Balart, part of the coalition of Florida lawmakers advising Donald Trump on Latin American issues, provided no evidence to back up his claims.
Early this morning, Juan Guaidó announced he and a seemingly small band of low-ranking Venezuelan military guards were mounting a revolt against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s government. Sen. Marco Rubio has spent the morning loudly cheerleading Guaidó’s efforts while lobbing melodramatic threats at the Maduro regime.
On June 30 of last year, activists in more than 600 cities planned demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s policy of separating children and parents who’d arrived at the U.S. border seeking asylum. Emails obtained by The Intercept show that a private contractor monitored numerous protests in South Florida.
