Feds Won’t Turn Over Records Showing How PortMiami Dredging Affected Corals
Almost two years later, PortMimai dredging records have not been publicly released.
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Fort Lauderdale Cop Says He Was Fired for Being Friends With Meek Mill and Rick Ross
According to Jacques, Mill and Ross were friends who occasionally paid him for security services and consulting.
John Leguizamo’s New Chess Movie Is “a Love Letter to Miami Jackson Senior High”
For one day only, a carpeted, fourth-floor ballroom at the Hialeah Park racetrack transformed into the site of a ’90s high-school chess competition.
Miami Filmmaker Highlights the Remarkable Adaptability of Ordinary Florida Lizards
Lizards have even adapted to breathing underwater.
Trump Puts Florida Manatees and Sea Turtles on “Fast Track to Extinction,” Report Says
They shouldn’t be deregulated.
Miami Atheists Demand to Be Heard
Kevin was home alone after school one day when two Mormon missionaries came to his doorstep. The 16-year-old opened the door and invited them in. The young men handed him some brochures and asked if they could pray for him. In the living room, they kneeled beside him, touched his…
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Woman Sues Miami Butt-Lift Doctor After Near-Death Experience
When 31-year-old Choeun Nuon awoke in the emergency room of Palmetto General Hospital, she remembers hearing the nurses and doctors shouting out her condition: “She’s bleeding! More blood, more blood!”
Miami-Dade Commissioner Pushing Jail Privatization Wants to Move “Quickly”
A plan to have a private investor build and possibly operate a new Miami-Dade jail is moving forward. County Commissioner Esteban Bovo first proposed the idea at an October meeting of the Chairman’s Policy Council. The plan involves replacing the county’s crumbling jails with new ones financed through “P3.”
Mom Sues Miami-Dade for Shooting Her 15-Year-Old Daughter During Memorial Day Weekend
A lawsuit questions Miami-Dade officers training after hip-hop weekend shooting.
South Beach’s Historic Coral Rock House Defaced With Swastikas
For over three decades, the coral rock house at 900 Collins Ave. was a medical office run by Edward Roth, one of the first Jewish doctors in Miami Beach. Over the weekend, drawings of swastikas were found on the home.
Miami Beach Starts Anti-Tourism Campaign to Keep Rowdy Spring Breakers Away
Each year, spring break brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to Miami Beach — but those tourism dollars come with a cost. Drunk bros throw punches, twerkers stop traffic for miles, and sometimes a random stampede breaks out.
Former State Senate Candidate Exposed by New Times Now Charged With Wire Fraud
In 2016, North Miami real estate broker Anis Blemur ran to replace State Sen. Gwen Margolis in Florida’s 38th District. He did this despite having an incredibly checkered background of financial mismanagement, including allegations that he defrauded multiple clients of tens of thousands of dollars.
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Crime in Opa-locka Is Up 403 Percent This Year, Report Says
Conditions at the Opa-locka Police Department are so bad the city can barely keep its officers employed. After a debilitating citywide budget cut of 20 percent, ten police positions were eliminated and every officer on the payroll took a 10 percent salary reduction. As the Miami Herald reported in September, some cops are wearing ripped uniforms and driving donated cars with over 100,000 miles on them. The police headquarters building is so rife with leaks and mold that officers have moved their operations to City Hall.
Horrible Biscayne Bay Pollution Worsened by 800-Gallon Sewage Leak
A new poop leak is just the latest example of how Miami has destroyed Biscayne Bay.
Woman Challenges Miami Beach Pet Store Ban
Patricia Vieira had always dreamed of owning a boutique puppy shop. So after finding a storefront on Jefferson Avenue in Miami Beach this past January, she signed a 13-month lease with a $3,500 monthly rent, submitted her business license application, and finally got the go-ahead from the city in March. Specializing in teacup and toy breeds, she called her store Les Petits Puppies Boutique.
Just in Time for Thanksgiving, Miami’s Airport Ranked Among Most Likely to Delay Your Flight
Adventures await us all at the Miami International Airport: On any given day, you might come across a naked man in Concourse G, a guy with seven snakes and three turtles stuffed down his pants in the security line, or an Instagram fitness influencer being kicked off a plane after arguing with the flight crew.
Human Rights Watch Says Florida’s HIV Prevention Leaves Behind Trans Women
Transgender activist Rajee Narinesingh still remembers the doctor’s office where the staff “busted out in laughter” after they thought she was out of earshot. “They handed me the clipboard with the form that I needed to fill out and they closed the window back, and then all I heard was this laughter,” Narinesingh says.
MeduSirena: Fort Lauderdale’s Underwater Beauty
South Florida’s most famous mermaid has never had a problem using her voice. In 2006, Marina Anderson — an aquatic performer known as MeduSirena — was turned down by the hotel manager after auditioning for an underwater show she hoped to start at the Sheraton, a historic resort in Fort…
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Colin Foord and Jared McKay Make Coral Cool
Eleven years after forming Coral Morphologic, marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay still don’t exactly have the words to describe it. Sitting inside their home/laboratory in Miami, Foord calls the group an “art/science hybrid endeavor” or “an experiment” of what 21st-century science could look like. McKay begins saying…
Juul’s “Action Plan” Is Too Late for Addicted Miami Teens, Mother Claims in Lawsuit
For years, Miami resident Sabrina Zampa had no idea her teenage sons were regularly vaping. It was only last August, after discovering her son’s Juul, that she learned her kids had been “juuling” since middle school. Her now-16-year-old son says he bought his first Juul products from the company’s website and later used Postmates to buy pod replacements — as did her younger son, now age 14.
Ousted Democratic Chairman Allegedly Propositioned Female Employee, Called Himself a “Sapiosexual”
Stephen Bittel, a real-estate billionaire who enjoyed a short reign as head of the Florida Democratic Party before resigning in disgrace last fall, sexually harassed a female employee by describing his sexual partners’ pubic hair, detailing his pornography preferences, offering to take her shopping for lingerie, and touching her toes on his private jet, according to a new complaint filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.
Amendment 10 Just Made Florida’s Counterterrorism Office a Permanent Fixture
Florida already has a statewide office of counterterrorism. Despite this, an amendment was placed on the November 6 ballot asking voters if they favored the creation of an “office of domestic security and counterterrorism within [the] department of law enforcement.”