Just four days before he was sworn into office as a North Miami Beach commissioner, Anthony DeFillipo was cruising north on Collins Avenue through Surfside in a white Buick SUV when a local cop pulled him over for a broken taillight. The officer quickly noticed a “strong smell of marijuana,” according to a police report. He asked whether the 41-year-old property manager had any pot.
Football pros talk in macho clichés, so most sports columnists might get a pass for crafting a tortured metaphor out of an Adam Gase line about wanting “alpha dogs” on the Miami Dolphins. But Armando Salguero isn’t most sports columnists.
Nearly two years after a North Miami cop shot an innocent, unarmed black man lying on the ground with his arms in the air, the city’s police department is still reeling. The cop who shot Charles Kinsey, who was just trying to help an autistic man that bystanders mistakenly through had a weapon, has been charged with two felonies and the North Miami Police chief was fired.
No one wants to get anywhere near Donald Trump right now. His former aides and confidantes keep flipping to help the federal investigation into his campaign’s Russia ties. He can’t buy an attorney to defend him in the wake of the FBI’s raid of Michael Cohen’s office. Post-Stormy Daniels, even Melania keeps swatting his hands away.
It is entirely possible to disagree with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High students behind the #NeverAgain movement and the March for Our Lives without making a total clown out of yourself. Step 1: Don’t spread insane conspiracy theories about the survivors of a massacre. Step 2: Don’t make Nazi comparisons…
BodyRx, an anti-aging clinic that offers testosterone and other hormone treatments, fills an unassuming office on the ground floor of a Coral Gables apartment complex. The lobby is pristine, with gray floors, ornate shelving, and delicate upholstery that wouldn’t seem out of place in a wedding planner’s office. As patients wait to be seen, a TV on the wall plays one testimonial on repeat.
Polo shirts: timeless fashion statements that say, “I could be headed to a vigorous round of tennis! But probably I’m headed to work and am simply too lazy for a full button-up.” In Miami-Dade, where a laid-back beach attitude mixed with swampy subtropical weather make full suits as practical as Borat speedos, most office workers rarely wear anything dressier than polos.
The Miami Marlins are just awful. They’re worse than Devin Nunes, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Pharma Bro. They probably won’t challenge the famed 1899 Cleveland Spiders for worst-ever MLB record, but no one would really be shocked if they did!
Last night, the Miami Marlins played in the Little Havana ballpark that taxpayers are still paying off to the tune of more than $2 billion. No one showed up. The announced attendance of 7,003 was the smallest in a decade for any regular MLB game that wasn’t relocated due to a hurricane or held in a Little League stadium.
Yesterday North Bay Village’s new city manager, Marlen Martell, called in Police Chief Carlos Noriega and offered him a choice: Either resign or be fired on the spot. Noriega says he was stunned, and not just because he felt he’d significantly improved the village’s force in his two and a half years on the job.
For decades, Latin American strongmen have had an escape route when their violent regimes are forced out of power: stashing millions in ill-gotten gains in Florida beachfront property and hiding out in the tropical sunshine. But those days might finally be ending thanks to a landmark jury verdict in Fort Lauderdale yesterday.
Just how deep in trouble is Miami-area U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo? Long before national signs pointed toward a blue tsunami this fall, Democrats had already targeted him — an obvious choice since Hillary Clinton crushed Donald Trump in Curbelo’s district by an eye-popping 16 points.
Christopher Steele, the British ex-spy behind the infamous dossier about President Trump’s alleged Russia links, has never discussed his explosive report under oath. That could change soon thanks to a massive lawsuit ongoing in Miami’s federal courthouse. And if lawyers for BuzzFeed get their way, Steele will have to divulge details about some of the most alarming links the dossier suggests between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
In May 2016, Opa-locka Police Officer Dennis Horn was working an off-duty assignment with his pregnant girlfriend when another local cop pulled up. Horn’s girlfriend hopped in the other officer’s car and chatted for a bit — a simple conversation that left the “insecure” Horn so furious that he grabbed…
When Houston Cypress headed to Ultra Music Fest last weekend, his only plan was to dance the day away. But then the Miccosukee Tribe member saw the dozens of partiers writhing around in Native American headdresses at Bayfront Park. Cypress, who is a well-known environmental and gay-rights activist, felt the faux Native…
Yesterday Donald Trump called up Vladimir Putin — a strongman who was recently caught deploying nerve gas to kill dissidents on the soil of America’s oldest ally — to heartily congratulate him for winning a sham election. Trump made the call despite the fact that his own aides told him not to and even typed in all caps on his morning briefing “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” regarding an item about Putin’s victory.
Why did Florida International University’s new bridge crumble onto traffic on SW Eighth Street, killing six people last week? That’s a question investigators will spend months trying to answer. But one enterprising and extremely entertaining YouTuber might have already solved the mystery.
It’s now clear that the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed and killed six people after engineers put it through some kind of “stress testing” earlier in the day. According to Sen. Marco Rubio, the bridge’s internal support cables were being “tightened” just as the bridge crumbled onto traffic below, crushing eight cars under 950 tons of concrete and steel.
To Miami-Dade County insiders, it was no shock when Munilla Construction Management (MCM) beat out three other competitors to win a $14.2 million bid to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. That’s because Munilla is not only one of the biggest contractors in South Florida but also one of the most politically connected thanks to years of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaigns.
Two of the biggest firms that built the Florida International University pedestrian bridge that collapsed today have recently been accused of unsafe practices. In one of those cases, another bridge project toppled onto workers.
When Miami Beach shut down Mokai Lounge last week over a viral video showing a horse panicking inside the nightclub, city leaders cited an “active threat to public health, welfare, or safety.” After all, somebody is bound to get hurt when a fully grown horse goes crazy inside a packed club…
At 10 a.m. today, thousands of South Florida students will set down their books and walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes. Their message is simple: Ban the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that helped Nikolas Cruz murder 17 kids and teachers in Parkland last month.
