Even by Miami Marlins standards, owner Jeffrey Loria has been popping some crazy pills in the last 24 hours. Last night, he abruptly fired manager Mike Redmond after just 38 games. And this morning, news has leaked that Loria has chosen Dan Jennings to replace him. Jennings’ name might ring…
Reporters packed into a conference room last week around officials from Miami Beach and the State Attorney’s Office. Their message was clear: The Miami Beach Police Department was cleaning up its act. More than a dozen cops were now under investigation for sending and receiving hundreds of racist and pornographic…
The signs have been there all along: The obsession with Nicky Minaj. The naive belief that he will someday rule the free world. His love of ornamental swords. Marco Rubio is a teenage dude stuck in a U.S. senator’s body. And judging by his speech last night, he’s been binging…
Miami gets a lot of well-deserved flak for its molasses-slow move toward becoming a bike-friendly metropolis, but there’s one bustling stretch of road that’s already full of commuters on two wheels. The scenic Venetian Causeway sees thousands of daily cyclists gliding over the main low-speed link between the mainland and…
The way Armando Porto tells it, he was arguing with his girlfriend on a steamy September morning in a Miami Beach parking lot when three men approached. Before he knew what was happening, one pushed him to the ground and another handcuffed him. Then the third man — a larger,…
Two prestigious national journalism awards have honored work by New Times and its staff writers in recent weeks. An investigation into the misuse of Tasers by Miami-area police forces by Miami New Times’ former senior staff writer Michael E. Miller has won a Sigma Delta Chai award, a national prize…
Just over a year ago, Carlos Lopez-Cantera was Miami-Dade’s property appraiser — not exactly a low-profile gig in a town built on real estate, but also hardly a launching pad for big-time political careers. However, Lopez-Cantera looks ready to make a Marco Rubio-esque leap from small-time South Florida politics onto…
Ever parked in a Miami-Dade County-run parking garage? You’d be hard pressed to find a customer who’d call the county’s parking hubs models of efficient business. But a new report from the Miami-Dade Inspector General suggests the department’s problems are far worse than anyone had guessed. Deposits went missing, checks…
On Friday, the Miami Beach Police Department announced that a detective had been suspended for 160 hours for violating department policies on use of force and handling prisoners in custody. The suspension stemmed from a case where Archer had punched a Good Samaritan in the head, but it turns out…
As the Cocaine Cowboys era exploded into a yeyo-fueled crime wave of excess in South Florida and across the nation in the 1980s, Fidel Castro quietly helped Cuban smugglers get the drugs from Colombia to American shores. Why? “For him, drug trafficking was, above all, a weapon of revolutionary…
Andrew Mossberg was walking back to his condo in South Beach when he saw a disturbing scene: A muscular man was grappling with a thin woman, punching her and grabbing items from her purse. Naturally, Mossberg assumed it was a mugging in progress and called 911. That’s when the man…
You probably thought that the Florida House was done embarrassing itself for the year. After all, House Republicans grabbed their ball and went home on Tuesday, canceling the rest of the session rather than dealing with an impasse with the Senate over Medicare. But it’s never wise to underestimate Florida…
In the weeks since announcing his presidential run, Marco Rubio has seemingly been softening his stance on gay marriage. He told Face the Nation last week that he doesn’t believe being gay is a choice for most people and earlier told Fusion’s Jorge Ramos that yeah, he’d attend a gay…
Moments after a muscular 23-year-old named Ernesto Hernandez was sucked into his boat’s propellers and killed off Key Biscayne, DJ Laz was interviewed by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer. Although the death occurred during a vodka-sponsored event at a notoriously drunken sandbar, the officer says Mendez showed…
For months, Miami Beach developer Michael Simkins has been buying up properties around Overtown, tearing down apartment buildings and — in some cases — sparking resident’s fury to the point that his construction equipment was set on fire earlier this year. But Simkins’ exact plans for those sites hasn’t been…
Just after dawn, a gray van pulled up to Maria’s mustard-yellow house on the western edge of Immokalee, just a few blocks from the acres of tomatoes that draw tens of thousands of migrant workers to this remote town in Southwest Florida.
Miami’s dire record of fatal incidents involving cyclists added another deadly incident last night. A man on a bicycle crossing the Julia Tuttle Causeway was hit by a car, flew off his bike and plunged to his death in Biscayne Bay around 11 p.m. last night. The driver — who…
Ah, Earth Day. A perfect time to put throw some jam band vinyl on the record player, get out those old hemp necklaces and pay a visit to the local farmer’s market. And, if you’re in South Florida, to spend a few moments pondering how mankind’s wanton destruction of its…
The staccato synths and back beat thundered through the Freedom Tower just after Marco Rubio wrapped up his big speech on Monday announcing that he’s joining the race for the White House. Staffers and supporters cheered and danced as the familiar lyrics blasted out: “We belong to something, we belong…
In a bloody eight months between 2010 and 2011, City of Miami cops shot and killed seven black men — a streak so egregious that the Department of Justice swooped in. Two years ago, they released their findings: Miami cops had violated civil rights through a pattern of excessive force…
From the moment he rode a Tea Party wave to topple the then-mighty Charlie Crist in a 2010 GOP Senate primary, Marco Rubio has always been the next big thing in waiting for conservatives. A campaign credit card scandal couldn’t slow him down. Neither could his ex-best buddy David Rivera’s…
George Zimmerman. Michael Dunn. Marissa Alexander. Curtis Reeves. To most Floridians, those names bring one thing to mind: our state’s troubled “Stand Your Ground” law, which has brought more legal headaches, bad press and miscarriages of justice to the Sunshine State than even Gov. Rick Scott could dream up. To…
