Listen up, kids. Next time you think science is boring, consider how Thaddeus McRae spent two years of his life: namely, chasing squirrels around the University of Miami campus with a remote-controlled cat on wheels and gliders painted to look like hawks. “We had some very interesting interactions,” McRae says…
As his hometown presidential hopeful Marco Rubio fumbles for a coherent response to ISIS and his state’s attentions have been riveted to the Charlie Crist-Rick Scott slugfest, Jeb Bush has mostly kept his head low in Coral Gables. But if Dubya’s hermano isn’t 100 percent running for president just yet,…
Last month, an arbitration board decided that Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa was wrong to fire one of his officers for shooting and killing an unarmed man named Travis McNeil at a traffic stop. McNeil was the seventh black man killed in an eight month span by Miami police –…
Veteran 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft visited Miami for a special report that aired this weekend, looking into the booming trend of identity thieves stealing personal data to scam the government out of tax returns. Instead, after hearing about Miami’s oversize role in the fraud, he ended up tackling a…
Listen up, kids. Next time you think science is boring, consider how Thaddeus McRae spent two years of his life: namely, chasing squirrels around the University of Miami campus with a remote-controlled cat on wheels and gliders painted to look like hawks. “We had some very interesting interactions,” McRae tells…
The last time Shaq signed up to be South Florida cop, his application was a memorable catastrophe. In addition to claiming one of the greatest skill sets in law enforcement — “Laptop computer, binnochulars [sic], master of surveillance” — Shaq papered over his involvement in a violent Disney World altercation…
One day after police found a badly decayed body in the trunk of a missing Miami woman’s car, her family says that the medical examiner has confirmed their worst fears: Dental records from the corpse matched 28-year-old Tanya Gonzalez. The news comes a day after a wild chase in the…
A missing persons case took a turn for the gruesome yesterday when police found a badly decayed body in the disappeared woman’s car. That’s when the case got truly bizarre. Hours later, Miami Police got wind that the woman’s boyfriend had fled to the Florida Keys on a boat with…
In Miami-Dade, transgender residents today have zero legal protection against being fired or discriminated against by their county government. That incredible fact remains true in 2014 largely because of one county commissioner and one conservative group hell-bent on keeping that basic human protection off the books. Well, with that right-wing…
Today may not technically be a holiday, but for Miami-Dade residents, it marks one of the treasured moments in the yearly calendar: Another former public official starts their corruption trial! Former Homestead Mayor Steve Bateman is the man on the stand in criminal court this morning, facing down two felony…
The day before a Miami Beach city board voted on whether to let one of the city’s most historic churches sell its courtyard to a retail developer, New Times threw a wrench in the proceedings with a new allegation: The developer “donated” $500,000 to the church’s leadership just before the…
In a lot of ways, 2014 has been a damned good year for the the Miami Marlins, with the Fish unexpectedly hanging around the wild-card race all summer with a record right around .500. But they’ve also had a truly brutal brush of injuries. Team ace Jose Fernandez was lost…
South Florida may see a run on umbrellas today thanks to a weather system churning off the coast of the Bahamas this morning. But we’ll have to wait another week for our first run on hurricane supplies, as forecasters now say the system isn’t likely to develop into anything more…
Miami Beach is no stranger to contentious claims of police abuse, from the case of an allegedly drunken officer joyriding on an ATV to multiple fatal shootings. Now, Beach officers — for better and for worse — will catch all those incidents on film. Thanks to a 6-1 vote at…
Super trial lawyer John Morgan is on the road this month talking up Amendment 2, the move to legalize medical marijuana in Florida that he’s pumped millions of his own dollars into supporting. That’s when Morgan made two deadly errors, at least in the minds of Amendment 2’s opponents: He…
Shaq is doing it again! The seven-foot-one former Heat center strolled into a Doral City Council meeting yesterday to glad-hand and take photos with the staffers and then revealed his real reason for coming: He’s applying to be a reserve officer with the town’s police force, which is run by…
It’s amazing what $25.6 million can buy you these days. A condo in South Beach. A season of CC Sabathia’s pitching services. Or if you’re Rick Scott, a five-point lead in a hotly contested governor’s race. That’s what a new poll out this morning from the Tampa Bay Times finds…
The FBI has opened an investigation this morning after hackers flooded internet message boards yesterday with hundreds of nude photos of celebrities, apparently stolen off their cell phones and computers. Among the victims: Ariana Grande, the teeny-bopping star from South Florida. Most of the celebs involved, including Oscar winner Jennifer…
The slumbering 2014 hurricane season is finally coming out of hibernation. Just over a week after Hurricane Cristobal pulled together in the Caribbean, the fourth named storm of the year has become official in the Gulf of Mexico. Miami’s National Hurricane Center this morning named Tropical Storm Dolly, which is…
As Ferguson, Missouri, has descended into a nightmarish vision of a dystopian police state, few have watched the growing clashes between protesters and authorities with a perspective quite like Sheila McNeil’s. As a young woman in Overtown, McNeil lived through Miami’s own version of Ferguson — the McDuffie riots that…
As Ferguson, Missouri, has descended into a nightmarish vision of a dystopian police state, few have watched the growing clashes between protesters and authorities with a perspective quite like Sheila McNeil’s. As a young woman in Overtown, McNeil lived through Miami’s own version of Ferguson — the McDuffie riots that…
Pesky ol’ 96L, the awkwardly named system that still needs to organize a bit more before earning the more dignified moniker of Tropical Storm Cristobal, is soaking the Lesser Antilles this morning and turning toward the northwest. The latest prediction from forecasters as of 8 a.m.: The storm will become…
