A Florida bill that would force minors to get parental consent for abortions passed the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The ACLU warns the bill will hurt underage girls if enacted.
Late last week, the Colombian government announced charges against Miami influencer Jenny Ambuila and her father, Omar Ambuila, after the pair allegedly committed a massive bribery and money-laundering scheme.
Yesterday, the federal government announced it’s adding another 900 beds to the Homestead child migrant shelter by mid-April. That will bring the camp’s total population to 3,200 kids.
A woman named Yujing Zhang was apprehended trying to get into Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion and resort.
Arguably the most important rule for visiting South Beach is this: Watch out for overzealous towing companies. Tow companies for years have preyed on unsuspecting tourists and residents alike — in 2013, New Times wrote in a longform feature that Miami Beach’s towing companies were orchestrating a “decades-long, politically sanctioned operation to hold people’s cars for ransom for hundreds of dollars” and were raking in millions each year by outright tricking drivers into parking illegally using all sorts of schemes.
One might assume that South Beach residents enjoy living in a neon-lit, bass-thumping party zone. With some exceptions, many of them did, after all, choose to move to South Beach. But, in reality, quite a number of Miami Beach residents don’t actually like when crowds of people gather to drink and dance in public — and they seem to especially get upset if those crowds include large numbers of black and brown people.
The livelihoods of college professors have gotten increasingly precarious over the last few decades. Universities keep cutting nonscience programs and offering fewer professorships while hiring more teachers as “adjuncts,” who make just a few thousand dollars per class, per semester. A recent report from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) found that 70 percent of Florida public-university professors are now adjuncts.
A Miami Beach Police officer late Monday night chased down a suspect allegedly driving a stolen car — and wound up slamming into another vehicle and killing the innocent woman inside. Yet according to a copy of the MBPD’s internal rules on police chases obtained by New Times, the entire ordeal never should have happened.
The modern anti-immigrant movement in America was largely created by white nationalists and eugenicists. One of the nation’s loudest voices is a group called the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, which was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, a doctor who believed in eugenics. Tanton received funding from his…
A quick history refresher: After President Abraham Lincoln freed America’s slaves during the Civil War, white Southerners spent a great deal of time devising ingenious and evil ways of preventing black people from voting. Those restrictions morphed into the “Jim Crow” laws — among them were poll taxes, which forced…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has turned in his report on alleged Russian interference to the Justice Department. Very few people know what Mueller has been up to for the last two-odd years — maybe he’s proved that Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin at a Cheesecake Factory in Volgograd, where they…
Some Florida lawmakers claim SB 168, which forces towns to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is pro-law-enforcement. But today, one of the state’s most prominent cops, City of Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina, sharply criticized portions of the measure. Colina said if he were asked to check a crime…
Two American citizens who live in South Florida— Miamian Garland Creedle and Keys resident Peter Sean Brown — sued Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties after being wrongly held in jail and nearly deported thanks to mistaken paperwork from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Frighteningly, those two people are not alone. According…
Tension between South Beach spring breakers and older, whiter, richer, and stodgier residents has been leading up to this for years. But yesterday’s revelation was still shocking. Miami Beach officials announced that for the remainder of spring break, teams of police in riot gear will patrol Ocean Drive and the…
Typically, political issues in cushy, wealthy, coddled Coral Gables are boring. But every once in a while, the city’s mayor openly admits he’s planning to bulldoze an entire neighborhood full of poor people. Case in point: Gables Mayor Raúl Valdés-Fauli openly admitted in a city candidate debate last week that…
Despite years of alleged misconduct, Frank Pichel somehow still works in Miami politics. In 2000, he was suspended from his job as a City of Miami Police sergeant after being caught allegedly writing a fake incident report to cover for a buddy who beat a handcuffed detainee to death. In 2006…
The City of Miami currently operates a Civilian Investigative Panel, a group of everyday citizens who investigate complaints against Miami Police Department officers. The panel provides basic levels of accountability for the department, which has been regularly accused of committing civil-rights violations for decades. Naturally, the city’s police union has fought…
A Florida jury today acquitted North Miami SWAT Officer Jonathan Aledda on one count of culpable negligence after he shot a behavioral therapist, Charles Kinsey, in the leg in 2016. Kinsey was trying to help an unarmed man with autism, Arnaldo Rios Soto, out of an intersection. Rios Soto was holding a silver toy truck…
For months, one of the most explosive court cases in the world has been playing out in Miami’s federal courthouse. Aleksej Gubarev, a tech entrepreneur from Cyprus, sued BuzzFeed News for defamation after the news outlet published the infamous “Steele Dossier” outlining alleged Russian government efforts to sway the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump…
According to Human Rights Watch, the Saudi attack on Yemen has sparked the single-worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now. Children are starving to death, cities lay in ruins, and a horrible cholera outbreak is ravaging the poverty-stricken nation. Innocent people live in constant fear they will be vaporized by…
On Tuesday, Miami developer Robert Zangrillo was charged with crimes as part of a sprawling, national FBI investigation into rich Americans who bribe colleges into admitting their spoiled, less-than-intelligent kids. Zangrillo allegedly paid an intermediary to make it look as if his daughter, who’d failed an art history class among…
In the wake of the FBI’s Operation Varsity Blues, one of the most sweeping probes into college-entrance bribery and corruption in American history, U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala today called for an investigation into nationwide corruption at top-flight schools.
