Twenty-six years ago, the feds busted the biggest smuggling operations of the entire Cocaine Cowboys era, a $2 billion pipeline run by high-school pals Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta. It would take another decade of contentious court battles before the pair was finally convicted, wrapping up one of…
These are dark times for Miami Marlins fans. There’s a raw, Jose Fernandez-sized hole in this franchise, and the one comfort that Fish fans could lean on this year — hated owner Jeffrey Loria’s impending sale of the team — still looks a long way from happening. You’d forgive Fish faithful from feeling blue as they shuffled into Marlins Park for the home opener last night.
Going into debt with a drug dealer is never a fantastic game plan. But police say one Miami man who stiffed his connection on $500 worth of narcotics ended up suffering far worse payback than he ever could have imagined. The victim, whom police haven’t identified, ended up kidnapped at…
Across the nation, politicos and police alike have pushed a “compassionate” response to the heroin epidemic. Everyone from Chris Christie to Eric Holder have called the problem a public health crisis and argued the best response is a combination of reduced legal opioid prescriptions (in part through legal medical weed) and better treatment options for addicts.
Marco Rubio spent most of last year lambasting Donald Trump as a “con artist” with tiny genitals who is totally unfit to lead the nation. But since last night, at least, he’s been the Don’s single best spokesman on cable news and the internet. Rubio has been everywhere to loudly defend the Trump administration’s about-face last night away from keeping war criminal Bashar al-Assad in power to dropping Tomahawk missiles on Syrian airfields.
There are 21 million people in Florida, millions of whom will eventually qualify for the medical-grade marijuana that voters approved in November. Very soon, a hell of a lot of weed will be legally sold in the Sunshine State. And so far, lawmakers have given exactly seven companies the right to grow and sell all of that pot.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Florida for two whole years, yet under state law, employers in the Sunshine State are still well within their rights to fire or refuse to hire people solely because they’re gay. Likewise, landlords can boot tenants or refuse to rent to them based on their sexual orientation.
Moments before North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda shot unarmed behavioral technician Charles Kinsey last July 18, another cop on the scene warned there was no gun, only a toy. After the shooting, an assistant chief repeatedly lied to the police chief, and City Manager Larry Spring ignored vital evidence.
The three kids heard something in the night but figured mom was just arguing with her boyfriend Carlos. So they went back to sleep. Friday morning, 8-year-old Noah got up for school and awoke his siblings, 4-year-old Martha and 3-year-old Michael. Mom and Carlos still hadn’t stirred, so he walked…
No director in America is hotter today than Miami’s own Barry Jenkins, fresh off his film Moonlight’s three Oscar wins, including Best Picture. No author had a bigger 2016 than Colson Whitehead, whose The Underground Railroad won a National Book Award and a favored spot on President Obama’s reading list.
Climate change is already making life more difficult in South Florida, and the signs remain ever more ominous that it will get worse. Just this week, scientists found that the Gulf of Mexico is freakishly hot for the tail end of winter — which could fuel monster hurricanes…
Miami Police Lt. Javier Ortiz, the outspoken head of the city’s cop union, has been temporarily reassigned to desk duty and stripped of his gun, New Times has confirmed. The move came after a judge granted a restraining order to a woman Ortiz allegedly harassed and doxxed online.
Because good climate-change news is about as common in Florida as a calm and pleasant rush-hour drive on I-95, let’s start there first: The vast majority of the Sunshine State now believes global warming is a real phenomenon supported by scientific evidence. That’s great! But this is Florida, so you know there’s a Lake Okeechobee-size “but” hanging at the end of that first sentence.
In November, more than seven in ten Floridians at the polls checked yes on Amendment 2, which legalized medical marijuana in the Sunshine State. Considering that Floridians would probably split 50-50 if asked whether they’d like a free delicious cupcake, that’s an amazing result.
Roger Stone says his life is in grave danger. The maverick onetime adviser to Donald Trump and proud practitioner of political rat-fucking claimed in January that someone had tried to poison him with polonium — coincidentally or not, generating international headlines just as he released a book about Trump’s campaign.
Marco Rubio has been as silent as a Trappist monk lately. He’s refused to hold town-hall meetings, declined to criticize Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, and wouldn’t even join the Republicans calling for Jeff Sessions’ recusal from a Russia probe over his lies about meeting Moscow’s ambassador.
Imagine every conceivable moment when your pants might spontaneously burst into flames. Got them all? OK, now which one would be the single most absurd? Here’s a good one: You’re standing in front of a jury, arguing that your client didn’t purposely set his car on fire — because it spontaneously combusted. Oops, just like your pants!
Life as a member of Rick Scott’s cabinet isn’t too rough. The jobs are a reliable slingshot to bigger and better gigs, whether its a gubernatorial campaign, which Ag Secretary Adam Putnam looks like set to launch, a Trump appointment in D.C., as AG Pam Bondi still seems to be…
After weeks of fiery protests and a contentious vote of support from the Miami-Dade County Commission, Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s move to back Donald Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities has been tossed out in court as unconstitutional. Miami-Dade Judge Milton Hirsch made the ruling Friday morning.
The stereotype of the drugged-out welfare queen is one of Republican legislators’ favorite tropes. There’s nothing a GOP-controlled government body loves more than raging about poor people taking government handouts and then using that cash to get high and avoid work all day. And, understandably, that would be a very bad thing to do.
The facts, at this point, aren’t in dispute: Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the Senate under oath last month that he’d never met any Russian officials during Donald Trump’s campaign. He said the same thing in a questionnaire he filled out for Sen. Patrick Leahy. But Sessions did meet with…
Glen Carr pulls out his cell phone as soon as he rounds the corner outside the Miami-Dade County Courthouse. He knows he’ll spot them soon. Then, after he walks just a half-block more, the 40-year-old with a military buzzcut stops and points. “Look, there are two I can see right…
