Gov. Rick Scott just spent four years as one of America’s most deeply unpopular elected officials. Thanks to his days running a firm that earned the largest fine in U.S. history for Medicare fraud, he has skeletons in his closet that would make Hannibal Lecter flinch. He had to blow…
In 1987, the Miami Herald turned a presidential race on its head. A team of reporters, acting on a tip, staged an elaborate stake-out of Democratic frontrunner Gary Hart at his Washington townhouse. Their reporting led to an investigation alleging that Hart had been carrying on an affair with a…
In May 2010, Broward dispatchers received a call from a terrified woman cowering in a bathroom. She was pregnant, she said, and her much larger fiancé had just hit her in the face. “Please help,” the woman begged. Police showed up and arrested her alleged abuser. But because the woman’s…
It was a historic day for equal rights in Miami-Dade yesterday, as the county commission moved one step closer to adding transgendered residents to anti-discrimination laws. But it’s the city across Biscayne Bay from County Hall that took home the area’s highest honors for LGBT equality in the latest national…
B�oli is one of the most quintessentially South Beach restaurants, a place where where Pel� and Britto recently popped Dom P�rignon together, Jamie Foxx brought his crew to drop a few Gs on bottle service, and the kitchen made headlines by offering the most expensive burger in Miami. But behind…
It’s getting late at the South Beach restaurant Bâoli when ripped, shirtless waiters start pouring liquor directly into women’s mouths. Bass lines thunder from the DJ booth built right in the middle of the Collins Avenue dining room. Soon dancers in sequined thongs leap onto the bar and gyrate to…
On a rural compound just 11 miles from Disney World, Marcus Faella and his followers spent years stockpiling weapons and food, erecting barbed wire, and conducting elaborate paramilitary drills. Their goal, according to federal agents: igniting a “race war” in Central Florida. Two years ago, the feds busted the Aryan…
Thanks to its well-preserved art deco district, South Beach has a reputation as one of the few bastions in Dade County that takes historic preservation seriously. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t loopholes. Take, for instance, the 1940 Wells Fargo Bank building on the southwest corner of Alton and Lincoln…
In January 2013, here’s how Alex Rodriguez reacted to a Miami New Times exposé that a Coral Gables clinic had been selling him steroids for years: “Alex Rodriguez was not Mr. Bosch’s patient,” he said in a statement, “he was never treated by him and he was never advised by…
There’s a meme that’s been going strong on Reddit’s Florida page all summer. It shows Rick Scott and Charlie Crist side-by-side with the caption “Giant Douche Versus Turd Sandwich.” That South Park reference seemed to resonate especially in Democrat-rich South Florida. As Riptide noted yesterday, local Facebook feeds and Twitter…
For the hundreds of thousands toiling low-income jobs in South Florida, hiring an attorney is about as realistic as buying a Bentley. But that doesn’t mean poor Miamians don’t end up in sticky legal situations. In fact, between employers refusing to hand over wages and predatory lenders foreclosing on houses,…
In June 2013, Alex Rodriguez was sweating the biggest drug scandal in MLB history. Six months after Miami New Times had revealed a local clinic called Biogenesis was selling steroids to scores of top players, MLB was closing in on Tony Bosch, the clinic’s owner. Bosch was a big problem,…
Just in case you weren’t convinced by the past six months of polls showing the Charlie Crist/Rick Scott race is barreling toward a razor-thin, Bush-vs.-Gore-esque, last-minute photo finish tomorrow, a new set of polls is out this morning to confirm that, yup, this thing is way too close to call…
Let’s be honest: Florida is to fair and well-run polling as Kanye West is to humble and modest self-image. We’re just not very good at it. You don’t even have to go back to the Dubya-crowning recount debacle for evidence of Sunshine State voting ineptitude. Just transport yourself back to…
On June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart lifted off from an airfield in Hialeah, bound on the ambitious round-the-world flight from which she would never return. Scholars and enthusiasts have spent the past seven decades arguing about what happened to the aviation pioneer, and this week one prominent Earhart searcher declared…
So many recent polls have shown Charlie Crist and Gov. Rick Scott in a dead heat that state election officials actually went on record this week worrying about what might happen if a recount was needed to break a statistical tie. This race is damned close. But a new poll…
The video begins with a motorcyclist waving a ticket he’s just gotten from veteran Miami Beach Police Officer Kenneth MacLeod. “God bless you,” the man says. Is there sarcasm in that remark? MacLeod certainly thinks so. “You want to be a sarcastic bitch?” the cop asks, wheeling back around and…
Florida has one of the nation’s strictest open records laws, but Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t seem to take much pride over his state’s achievement. In fact, according to an ongoing lawsuit, Scott openly flaunted those rules by setting up a Gmail account for secretly doing much of his official business…
In 2007, Miami New Times first documented the unintended side effect of Miami-Dade County’s strict laws about where convicted sex offenders can live: Namely, that dozens of men were forced by law to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in squalid conditions. The men were eventually moved out amid national…
How tight can a governor’s race get? Tighter than Rick Scott’s terrifying debate smile? Tighter than Charlie Crist’s artificially orange skin? Yep, that’s how tight the race for the Florida governor’s mansion has gotten, according to a pair of new polls. The fresh Quinnipiac and Rasmussen polls both show the…
For years, a prevailing knock on Miami has been that the young and educated move away in a perpetual brain drain to towns with more diverse, tech-driven economies. Sure, the Magic City is lovely, they said, if you want to work in real estate or restaurants. Well, a new study…
Last week, Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally selling testosterone from his Coral Gables clinic to hundreds of clients, including Major League Baseball players. Today, the feds have arrested another man who they say supplied some of that illegal testosterone. Paulo Berejuk, a chemist based…
