Alex Rodriguez has spent most of his year-long steroid banishment hidden from public view. Aside from a few celebrity golf tournaments, he’s stayed far away from the press during the ongoing Biogenesis drama that derailed his career and has lately led to a slew of indictments in South Florida, including…
Good rule of thumb: When a storm system hasn’t even morphed into a named tropical storm yet, it’s way too early to raid Publix for vodka, er, emergency water supplies, no matter what the TV news is saying this morning. But if you live in South Florida, it is worth…
The activists in Smash HLS have never been shy about pushing the boundaries when it comes protesting Miami-based Worldwide Primates, a firm that sells monkeys sometimes used in scientific experiments. When a New Times writer hung out with the group last summer, they were marching outside the home of one…
Two weeks ago, Biogenesis clinic founder Tony Bosch and six others were indicted and charged with, among other things, selling steroids to at least 18 local high school athletes. The very next day, Miami-Dade County Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced with a flourish a new pilot program to drug test…
After another night of chaos in Ferguson, Missouri — with 31 arrests and reports this morning of multiple shootings — the nation seems no closer to coming to terms with the latest police killing of an unarmed black teenager. It wasn’t that long ago that the national media had converged…
Considering that lightning-filled monsoons sweep across Dade County every afternoon this time of year, waiting out weather delays at Miami International Airport is par for the course. The morass travelers encountered last night at MIA, though, was anything but typical. A double-whammy of busted computers and broken runway lights left…
On February 4, 2013, an effusive man with short-cropped hair and a prominent gap between his front teeth strolled into Miami New Times’ newsroom. He shook hands with staffers, admired our wall of fading award plaques and old cover illustrations, and then got down to business. Just a week earlier,…
It’s hard to imagine a character less suited to Alex Rodriguez’s luxury lifestyle of private jets and South of Fifth condos than the shackled man federal agents led into the DEA’s Weston headquarters the morning of August 5. Yuri Sucart was clad in a baggy white T-shirt, ill-fitting black pants,…
Crack open a Molson, Miami — our long Canadian nightmare is finally coming to an end. Justin Bieber, the tweeny-bopping scourge of South Beach, is reportedly set to plead guilty this afternoon to driving under the influence. Bieber was arrested in January after police say he and his crew blocked…
If you thought the Biogenesis scandal couldn’t get any more seedy or bizarre, you haven’t been paying enough attention to the case that brought down A-Rod and resulted in seven indictments last week, including one against clinic founder Tony Bosch. Feds have now arrested three other men tied to the…
It would be hard to imagine a character less suited to Alex Rodriguez’s luxury lifestyle of private jets and South of Fifth condos than the shackled man federal agents led into the DEA’s Weston headquarters the morning of August 5. Yuri Sucart was clad in a baggy white T-shirt, ill-fitting…
The ball screamed off Pirates shortstop Jordy Mercer’s bat, clocking 101 mph as it rocketed toward the outfield. Sixty feet later, it smacked into the head of Marlins relief pitcher Dan Jennings, catching him flush before he could react. It’s a nightmare scenario for any pitcher, and the video of…
As teenagers in neon cleats stutter-step between lines of orange cones on the sun-baked grass behind Norland Senior High, coach Daryle Heidelburg punctuates the sweltering afternoon with a booming outburst. “Damian, get on the ground, please!” he hollers to a receiver, who falls at once and starts doing pushups. “First…
One year after Anthony Bosch’s roster of Major League Baseball clients — including hometown star Alex Rodriguez — received a record round of suspensions for buying performance enhancing drugs from Biogenesis, his Coral Gables clinic, Bosch himself is finally facing the music. Federal agents have reportedly arrested Bosch and some…
Dwight Eisenhower still holds the record for the most hamfisted attempts to oust Fidel Castro, thanks to alleged plots like the CIA’s exploding cigar caper. But Barack Obama is giving Ike a run for his money. First came the “Cuban Twitter” fiasco, when news leaked that the US Agency for…
Despite the usual muggy drenching every afternoon around 4 p.m., Miami’s had a fairly dry run through hurricane season so far. But that could change early next week thanks to a large lady named Bertha swirling out over the Caribbean this morning. The National Hurricane Center declared Bertha the second…
On Saturday morning, a 22-year-old student named Rachel and her family left their home near 41st Street in Miami Beach to head to synagogue when they noticed a crowd gathered around their car. They quickly realized why: Someone had egged the vehicle and tagged “Hamas” on the window in cream…
Ommy Irizarry and his 9-year-old daughter, Oceana, were strolling along the sand just outside the surf in Venice, Florida, yesterday afternoon when a small aircraft plummeted from the sky. The Piper, which had lost power midflight, slammed to a stop on the sand without seriously injuring the pilot or his…
Biogenesis proprietor Tony Bosch didn’t spend all his time cooking up elaborate doping procedures for MLB stars like Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun. As reported in Blood Sport, the new book on the Miami scandal, Bosch also had a huge network of regular clientele, from UM students to high schoolers…
Who the hell is Adrian Wyllie? Well, he’s a military vet, an IT consultant and the host of a libertarian radio talk show in Pinellas County. He also might just be Charlie Crist’s worst nightmare. That’s because Wyllie is running for Florida governor on the Libertarian ticket and a new…
Emails and Facebook notices began pinging around Florida’s legal community Saturday with the unbelievable news: Florida State University’s nationally respected professor and legal scholar Dan Markel was dead. Shock soon turned to outrage when police confirmed that Markel, who was only 41 years old, had been shot inside his Tallahassee…
If you’ve ever enjoyed the cheesy pleasures of Disney World’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride, you’ve surely noted the numerous signs advising guests to keep their hands and arms inside the cars. It seems those are no idle warnings. Pirates of the Caribbean, in fact, is a voracious finger-eating monster…
