For one night in 2010, Bill Fong chased perfection. At that point, only 21 bowlers in history had ever notched a 900 — three straight games of perfection, 36 straight strikes. But by his final game, with an awed crowd gathering, Fong stood on the cusp. The incredible tale of…
In 1990, a group of homeless men and women was sleeping in Lummus Park near the Miami River when they were jarred awake by police officers. Before most knew what was happening, they were yanked from their tents, handcuffed, and forced to watch while officers burned everything they owned: clothes,…
Getting a consensus in Miami on the Cuban embargo is about as realistic as grabbing a quiet, relaxed cafecito at Versailles the morning of a Castro death rumor. But nationally at least, evidence continues mounting that there’s real consensus that President Obama’s move toward thawed relations is the right move…
The day they came for Sandra Lopez, she was working the line inside Moreno Farms’ packing house. Cool air blasted through the cavernous building in a remote field outside Felda, a tiny hamlet nine miles from Immokalee. Lopez and 70 other workers, mostly Mexican and Central American women, stood in…
Spring break arrived in South Beach this weekend with all the usual hallmarks: Packed beaches full of drunken 20-somethings, shoulder-to-shoulder pedestrians on Ocean Drive, lines around the block for Washington Avenue nightclubs. And, early this morning, the year’s first shootout near Ocean Drive. Two men were wounded in a gun…
Jonathan Corbett had been flying for nearly 30 hours. He had passed over God knows how many international datelines. And he was barely conscious when he plopped into a lounge chair at London Heathrow Airport this past December. Even worse, there was still one more leg of his journey home…
Lazer Collazo, a former pitching coach at University of Miami and head coach at local high schools, has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of buying steroids without a prescription. Collazo had been charged as part of the federal case against Coral Gables steroid clinic Biogenesis, with federal…
Between the bizarre Ana Aliegro saga, the undisclosed casino consulting, and the myriad other mini-scandals, it can be difficult to keep track of every malfeasance that former Rep. David Rivera has been fighting. Among them, though, is a 2012 state ethics charge accusing Rivera of concealing his finances and double-billing…
Miamians have found it all but impossible to separate the comedy from the politics in Conan O’Brien’s historic late-night special filmed in Cuba. Either you thought the visit — the first by an American TV host since Jack Paar flew down to interview Castro in 1959 — was an embargo-smashing…
In federal court last month, big-league steroid dealer Tony Bosch and his attorneys painted a sad picture of the price he had paid to help bring down his clients — including the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez and the Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun. The fake doctor had sacrificed everything, they said, ducking…
Today marks the beginning of Florida’s most turbulent 60 days of the year, a bizarre two-month stretch when 160 oddballs convene in a remote North Florida town and — between bites from gigantic plates of paella — find new ways to make our state even more dysfunctional. Yes, it’s time…
Down in Venezuela, things are not going great. Condoms are retailing for hundreds of dollars, inflation has leapt to 60 percent and there’s such an acute shortage of toilet paper that Caracas is considering a deal to trade crude oil for Charmin. So in the finest tradition of his mentor…
TV cameras from around the nation are focused on a green-and-orange-painted appliance store in Allapattah this morning. More specific, they’re broadcasting pictures of the Miami-Dade bus lodged in the front of the business. Just after 6:30 this morning, the bus collided with an SUV and then slammed into the building,…
All Aboard Florida, the private firm planning rail service between Miami and Orlando, has already faced plenty of blowback, including residents worried about noise and traffic delays and accusations of political malfeasance. But there’s also the more basic question of whether the $2.5 billion venture — which includes plans for…
For years, Florida police agencies have secretly purchased mysterious devices called Stingrays. Manufactured in Delray Beach and sold for up to $134,000, the machine lets cops track cell phones. And even though Stingrays were bought mostly with anti-terrorism money and pitched as emergency-only options, local court records hint that police…
Living in Miami in 2015 and harboring any doubts about sea level rise is roughly equivalent to being a volcano truther in Pompeii circa 79 AD. The catastrophe is happening. The only question is just how quickly climate change will sink parts of South Florida. The answer, according to new…
Good news never seems to last long for the Miami Heat these days. Just hours after celebrating the news that the team had landed its best point guard since the heyday of Tim Hardaway, fans learned that superstar Chris Bosh had been hospitalized for some very serious tests. Doctors in…
Miami Gardens, the city that’s home to Sun Life Stadium and one of Florida’s highest crime rates, has had a wrenchingly difficult week. Days after police fatally shot a mentally ill man armed with a broom, city leaders are now dealing with an apparent hate crime. Yesterday, someone spray-painted “KKK”…
On YouTube, the man in black goes by the handle DareDevilMagic_insane. For once, an online name isn’t hyperbole. Just watch his latest video, when the urban climber sneaks into a Brickell construction site, scales a 50-story crane, and dangles by one hand high over downtown Miami…
Update: Shortly after Bosch’s sentencing, Alex Rodriguez issued his first apology to fans for secretly buying banned drugs from Bosch for years. This morning, U.S. District Court Judge Darrin Gayles sentenced Biogenesis chief Tony Bosch to 48 months in federal prison and three years of probation upon his release on…
Where’s the toughest place to live in America? When the New York Times set out to answer that question by delving into six pieces of national data broken down by county, including household income, disability rates, and education levels. The result: Wide swaths of the Deep South are mired in…
Catherine Daniels called Miami Gardens Police Sunday morning with a plea: Her son, a mentally ill man named Lavall Hall, needed help. After she called police, Hall walked out of the house holding a broom. Daniels never saw her son alive again, because the two Miami Gardens Police officers who…
