Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s senior counselor and chief strategist, lashed out at reporters this week, claiming “the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut.” The comments came after journalists discovered Bannon was registered to vote in both Florida and New York – an embarrassing revelation…
For two years, neighbors in Buena Vista Heights have signed petitions and waited. Gone to meetings and waited. Forwarded emails and waited. Consulted attorneys and waited. In 2015, residents learned a developer wanted to rezone a parcel in their residential, working-class neighborhood to build a five-story parking garage for Design District visitors. Since that time, they’ve watched — and, yes, waited — as the garage has gone through the slow process of city approval. Roughly 400 people have signed petitions circulating online and on paper asking commissioners to vote down the garage.
With a confident grin, Mark Gold strides into a Broward County courtroom and waltzes up to a podium. Dressed in a dark suit and silver striped tie, the five-foot-five attorney tells Chief Magistrate Brenda Di Ioia that his client, a man caught speeding in his mother’s 1995 Saturn, will not…
Sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the MacArthur Causeway, you ball up your fists and inexplicably honk your horn, because Miami logic dictates you must. As you let out a guttural cry, a Jet Ski zips past you in the water. Your first inkling — Is it DJ Khaled?! — subsides as a second, more loathsome thought makes its way to the tip of your tongue: Screw that guy.
In his Southern twang, 36-year-old Chris Emerson explained he had totaled his truck, split from his wife, and “just had a bad rough patch.” Riding his horse Trigger from South Carolina to Florida, he couldn’t pass through a city without someone taking notice of the pair. News crews that spotted…
In the fall of 2015, a Florida woman boarded the Carnival Breeze with her 15-year-old daughter and set sail for the Caribbean. It was October 3, the last leg of the eight-day voyage. As she had done several nights of the cruise, the girl stopped by Deck 4 to check out the ship’s alcohol-free club, which catered to 15-to-17-year-olds.
When Charles Kinsey, an unarmed behavioral technician assisting an autistic client, was shot by a North Miami Police officer last summer, critics immediately assailed the department’s training procedures. Those cries only intensified when news broke that North Miami had recently lost its state accreditation in part due to problems with training its cops.
On a sweltering September morning last year, Adrian Henriquez and five friends hopped onto a yacht he’d chartered and set out for an afternoon cruise on Biscayne Bay. The group planned to shoot footage for an upcoming music video. Shortly after the luxury yacht left the Miami Beach Marina, one of the six passengers began smoking a cigar. But the seemingly innocuous display sent their captain, Robert Nobles, into a rage. That’s when, the passengers say, Nobles “became agitated, belligerent, and aggressive.”
Esteban Santiago has been identified as the shooter who opened fire at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to NBC News.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has confirmed five people are dead in a shooting in Terminal 2 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
In February 2013, thousands of amateur Gladesmen and vitamin D-deprived reporters descended upon the Everglades for Florida’s very first Python Challenge. The goal of the contest, which came with a $1,500 grand prize, was to put a dent in the state’s increasingly frightening Burmese python problem. But when the four-week challenge came to an end, the contest’s participants had captured just 68 of the invasive pythons. The hunt was scrapped until 2016, when participants fared only slightly better.
The more David Yuzuk uncovered, the more he wondered whether the man who’d been overlooked for years could have secretly been working as a government contractor, a black-market gunrunner, or even a spy with the perfect cover story.
At Hialeah Gardens High School, Javier Cuenca was a popular assistant basketball coach — until four students told authorities he’d molested them and in some cases given them steroids. Now two of those former students have filed lawsuits against their former coach, further detailing their claims that he molested them in the summer of 2013.
A wild gun battle rocked Ocean Drive this morning, with more than 30 shots blasted in the early hours near Fifth Street. Nearby streets are still closed while Miami Beach Police try to unravel a chaotic crime scene. By some miracle, no one was injured in all the gunfire…
After a series of high-profile drownings aboard its cruise ships, Royal Caribbean has begun quietly advertising positions for lifeguards. The cruise line — which is headquartered in Miami, and the county’s eighth-largest private employer — posted the job description on an onboard TV channel Wednesday.
It’s no secret Miami likes to throw one back. South Beach is practically synonymous with $30 fishbowl cocktails. There are entire companies that will deliver liquor right to your doorstep. Last year, Match.com called Miami the seventh booziest city for singles. Now the county is taking advantage: To get free Wi-Fi on public transit, the commission might waive a rule that prohibits alcohol advertisements at bus stops and on trains.
This past January, Claudia Castillo pulled over a speeding Miami-Dade cop in a video that went viral. The Miami Police’s union chief, Lt. Javier Ortiz, responded by posting Castillo’s Facebook photos and phone number and urging his social media followers to call her. Castillo received hundreds of threatening phone calls and Facebook messages, and Facebook itself removed the posts for being abusive.
Bad ideas have had free rein in 2016. From a Muslim registry to a taxpayer-funded Pitbull music video, there’s a lot for America to be embarrassed about in the past 12 months. But the year isn’t over yet, and neither are the awful ideas. This past Sunday, the Miami Herald published a skepticism-free story proposing something called a “civility court,” in which regular people could be forced to answer for their “bad,” but not criminal, behavior in front of a judge.
As a plan for improvements on Ocean Drive takes hold, Miami Beach business owners and residents say they didn’t know the city’s prescription included a measure to remove dozens of decades-old palm trees from the sidewalks along the iconic stretch.
In the wake of the Ferguson unrest — and after years of questionable police-involved shootings in South Florida — the Miami Police Department began equipping its officers with body cameras in late 2014. The cameras, officials promised, would lead to more transparency and better policing.
On December 8, 2014, 60-year-old Charlie Bradley drove from Sarasota to Miami for a meeting of Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, a group that has sought to restore the historic, graffiti-covered structure on Virginia Key. Walking around the stadium that Monday, Bradley — a retired schoolteacher who grew up in Miami —pulled out his cell phone and began recording video of the colorful graffiti that adorned the walls. That’s when a police officer stopped Bradley and threatened to throw him in jail.
As the heat index reached 110 degrees this past August, Cathleen Parra stood attention at the side of an outdoor dance floor on New York’s Governors Island. Her job, she says, was “to make sure no one was getting too rowdy.” At first, Parra, a burlesque artist who performs under…
