Last year, Florida was one of the most enthusiastic states in the nation for handing out the death penalty — and it sentenced those prisoners to death with an unusual system. It’s one of just three states that doesn’t require a unanimous jury to deliver the ultimate punishment. Now, that…
You’d think Miami would have no trouble keeping green grass on its soccer fields. There’s more than ample sunlight, plenty of rain, and friendly temperatures year round. So why is Miami-Dade aggressively installing artificial turf into its parks — especially given mounting health concerns, from cancer links to ligament damage,…
For Miami cops, Saturday was one of those nights. By 8:15 p.m., detectives had already left one shooting in Overtown to rush to another in Liberty City, where they found a 15-year-old boy dead in an empty field. As they combed area for evidence, more gunshot rattled the night. Just…
Andrew Mossberg thought he was helping a young woman in distress. He was walking his dog, Snoopy, with his ten-year-old son along West Avenue in South Beach when he saw a muscular man in street clothes screaming at a thin young woman, rifling through her purse and then hitting her…
Just over one year ago, Tony Bosch’s lawyers pleaded for leniency from a federal judge as he was sentenced for running a secret steroid ring out of his Coral Gables anti-aging clinic, Biogenesis. Bosch had turned snitch for the feds, they argued, helping to indict seven other co-conspirators, and had…
Michael Gavins just wanted a hamburger. He’d worked up a growling hunger while watching the Dolphins beat the Eagles with his childhood buddies in South Miami, where he’d grown up. The 36-year-old knew he could have been a pro himself if his knees had held up. The six-foot-six behemoth was…
It’s the first week of January, so you know the drill: Gyms are packed with noobs misusing the squat racks, out-of-practice joggers are huffing along every beachside trail and Miami’s doctors are doing strong business in freshly pulled hamstrings. But some parts of Miami need to re-up those New Year’s…
Today, the site of the MiamiCentral train station is a giant pit filled with concrete pilings and buzzing construction equipment just across from County Hall on NW 1st Avenue. The nine-acre complex will eventually be the home station for the Brightline, the new Orlando-to-Miami passenger train service. And it’s now…
Journalists look forward to the last week of December as the time of the year when the silliest civic press releases of the year hit our inboxes. The releases come from mayors, city commissioners and celebrities, all sincerely asking for the same thing: Please Miami, stop shooting your guns into…
Protests and debates have erupted across the country this week in the wake of a grand jury’s decision not to indict the Cleveland police officers who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Most of that debate has centered on whether police had real reason to fear for their lives, as…
Call it the holiday news dump: Earlier this month, the TSA quietly released a new policy on its airport security checks. The days when travelers can request a pat-down instead of going through a nude imaging scanner are coming to an end; instead, TSA can now decline that request and…
Seven-year-old Amir was visiting his cousins yesterday in southwest Dade County, hanging out inside their modest ranch home in the Jackson Heights neighborhood. That’s when a white Dodge Ram slowed to a crawl along Jackson Street, rolled down a window and peppered the house with bullets from a high-powered rifle…
In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, donations and federal funds poured into New York City, including millions sent to the medical examiner’s office to help identify the remains of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. At least $10 million of that cash, though, never made it to help…
Miami is closer to Havana than it is to any major U.S. city but for the past five decades, traveling those 230 miles south has been anything but routine. Even if you could snag a hard-to-get visa to get around the U.S. ban on spending any cash in Cuba, commercial…
On Monday night, identical threats promising bloody attacks were sent to public school systems in New York and Los Angeles. L.A. went ballistic, shutting down all schools on Tuesday at a cost of millions to taxpayers; New York, meanwhile, deemed the threats a “hoax” and went on with their business. …
Venezuela’s Chavista President Nicolas Maduro took a crushing loss at the polls earlier this month to opposition parties who say his government is horribly corrupt. This morning, U.S. prosecutors are dealing dealt him another vicious body blow. One of Maduro’s top military leaders — Néstor Reverol, head of the country’s National…
Every year in South Beach, the Miami International Boat Show brings huge, Basel-esque crowds to gape at fleets of luxury yachts. This morning, though, city commissioners will decide whether to let the show flee to Virginia Key. It’s all part of an ambitious plan to renovate Miami Marine Stadium, a…
Perhaps you’ve been watching the rising seas routinely inundating Miami streets, soaking cars and stranding residents unlucky enough to not own kayaks, and thinking to yourself, “Well, I’m sure our leaders have some great ideas how to save our city.” Afraid not! This morning, the New Yorker dropped a new longread…
Lissette Batista was two months pregnant when three women beat her up inside Club Therapy on NE 11th Street in downtown Miami this past January 4. Her boyfriend, Aldo Pedroza tried to intervene, and the women clobbered him too. Bouncers then jumped into the situation, leaving the attackers alone, kicking…
It’s weird enough that two major candidates for the GOP presidential nomination hail from Miami, but the slugfest between Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush is even more localized. In fact, the birthplace of their epic struggle for Republican party dominance can actually be traced to a single luxury hotel in…
Five days after bystanders filmed Miami Beach Police shooting and killing a man in the middle of Alton Road during Art Basel weekend, details about the fatal encounter are becoming more clear. The suspect, 51-year-old David Winsette, had escaped a halfway house, just tried to rob a bank and held…
Wayne Rosen does not fit the bill of a low-income individual living in a blighted community. In fact, he’s the wealthy owner of Shores Development, one of the biggest homebuilders in southwest Dade. Rosen himself lives in a $3 million Coral Gables mansion and enjoys showering political allies with donations…
