Don’t worry: It’s just not the raging hangover from those seven rum and Cokes you pounded while sweating through the Heat’s win last night. Your eyes are not fogged over with Monday-morning regret. Miami really has disappeared under a cloud of noxious smoke. A huge wildfire in Broward County is…
Across South Florida, afternoon rainstorms are sprouting over the Everglades and moving inland to drench backyards, where swarms of mosquitos will soon hatch in pools of tepid standing water. It’s summertime in Florida, in other words. Except this year, there’s an increasingly good chance those mosquitoes will soon be infected…
The England fan had a flag draped across his shoulders, a beer in each hand, and had just finished bellowing a song at a passing group of Ecuador supporters when he glanced around at Sun Life Stadium’s dim concourse and echoed what many Three Lions backers surely felt at halftime…
After months of fruitless lobbying in Miami-Dade County and Tallahassee to change taxi laws in South Florida, app-based ride service Uber has decided to go the route of ride-sharing competitor Lyft and just ignore the regulations. Uber’s own ride-sharing service, UberX, is launching in Miami today, braving mass fines and…
Fourteen years ago, Miami-Dade County negotiated one of the worst “profit-sharing” deals with a local sports franchise ever put to paper. Taxpayers gave Miami Heat owner Micky Arison $38 million in land and a $6.4 million annual subsidy to build the American Airlines Arena downtown, and in exchange the team…
If you had stumbled across Moner Abu-Salha’s Facebook profile a year ago, you would have found a recently updated page fitting for any suburban South Florida bro. On June 24, he updated his profile pic to a selfie flexing his biceps in the bathroom mirror and his cover photo to…
On May 25, a massive truck bomb driven by a suicide bomber blew through a Syrian neighborhood, the latest strike in the nation’s brutal civil war. This bomb was different though; the Islamist force claiming credit quickly posted video of the attack and claimed that the jihadi who carried it…
Past the space-age immersion chamber and the full-body scanner that can detect minute fat deposits, Neiman Nix’s office is a testament to what happens when modern medicine falls short. The walls are hung with glossy photos of a fastball-hurling Nix in Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers uniforms, but the hulking,…
It’s been nine years since the double-whammy of Katrina and Wilma walloped Miami, and the Magic City has coasted through every hurricane season since without a scratch. Most weather experts have predicted more of the same this year, with another strong El Niño system tamping down tropical storms. But one…
Swarms of rowdy beachgoers erupted into violent brawls. Police were overwhelmed as they tried to quell the chaos. Dozens ended up arrested while worried business owners looked on. Just another Memorial Day weekend in South Beach, right? Actually, not so much. That chaotic scene, in fact, went down yesterday in…
Past the space-age immersion chamber and the full-body scanner that can detect minute fat deposits, Neiman Nix’s office is a testament to what happens when modern medicine falls short. The walls are hung with glossy photos of a fastball-hurling Nix in Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers uniforms, but the hulking,…
Mark Cuban is the rarest of creatures in today’s sports world: an outspoken owner unafraid to speak his opinion on just about any topic, whether it’s his belief that the NBA should fund research into human growth hormone or his crusade to change U.S. patent law. Sometimes, though, the brutally…
You might want to just stay in your SUV forever, Miami. Days after a study found that Florida cities dominated the list of America’s deadliest for pedestrians (with the Magic City clocking in fourth place), a new report has been released on the most dangerous locales in the U.S. for…
It’s been more than a decade since 8-year-old Marlene Rojas Ramos died inside her own home on the shores of Lake Titicaca. She was felled by a sharpshooter’s single bullet fired through her family’s front window. Ramos was one of the youngest of the 58 Bolivians killed in a bloody…
After a few days of torrential rain, waterspouts, and tornado warnings to end last week, this weekend brought glorious sunshine and cool ocean breezes — meaning half of Dade County spent Saturday and Sunday wading in the Atlantic Ocean or enjoying Biscayne Bay. They weren’t alone out there. (Cue ominous…
Nearly a year after the Biogenesis scandal ended with a record round of baseball suspensions, one mystery has lingered. It centers on boxes of medical files stolen from the car of whistleblower Porter Fischer, the source behind the New Times article that sparked the whole affair. The files taken from…
Nearly a year after the Biogenesis scandal ended with a record round of baseball suspensions, one mystery has lingered. It centers on boxes of medical files that were stolen from the car of whistleblower Porter Fischer, the source behind the New Times story that sparked the whole affair. The files…
At this point, Gov. Rick Scott has turned into your embarrassing uncle who won’t stop ranting at dinner about how the government should drug-test everyone, no matter how clearly you explain that such a plan definitely violates the Constitution. Except in this case, it’s the federal court system that keeps…
The doctor and the lawyer showed up at Opa-locka Executive Airport ready for a fight. As they rolled down the tarmac toward the yawning hangars, the pair was well past the boiling point. For months, they’d dealt with evasions and lies, and now — after weeks of detailed forensic accounting…
The doctor and the lawyer showed up at Opa-locka Executive Airport ready for a fight. As they rolled down the tarmac toward the yawning hangars, the pair was well past the boiling point. For months, they’d dealt with evasions and lies, and now — after weeks of detailed forensic accounting…
Just after 4 p.m. on Monday, a man tried to board a Pakistan International Airlines flight in Karachi that was bound for the capital, Islamabad. Before he could enter, though, security officials searching his luggage say they found an ammunition bag with more than a dozen live rounds and a…
David Beckham’s aspirations for a new Major League Soccer stadium at PortMiami have lately been going about as well as Liverpool’s title chase. That’s an English soccer joke, people. They’re not going well! Faced with stiff opposition from Royal Caribbean and competing developers, Beckham’s proposal has begun to look politically…
