The facts are not in dispute: John Wayne Rogers is legally blind. He also shot his friend to death two years ago after an hours-long drinking binge at his rural Florida home. More specific, he pointed a .308 Remington assault rifle at his buddy’s chest from a little more than…
The Miami Dolphins have been in prime damage-control mode in the two weeks since a review determined their locker room was a hellish cross between Abu Ghraib and the Alpha Beta frat house from Revenge of the Nerds. Bully-in-chief Richie Incognito is long gone, head coach Joe Philbin took his…
Update: According to his social media posts, JoJo Nicolas, the former Miami Hurricanes football player involved in this morning’s horrific crash on the MacArthur Causeway, had been partying at South Beach nightclub Mansion. Hey, South Beach drivers, still celebrating the news that the Alton Road construction might finish seven months…
From the start, it was obvious why Major League Baseball filed suit against Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch and his partners. Months after New Times revealed how Bosch was selling drugs to ballplayers, MLB was still trying to get his records and the testimony they needed to suspend Alex Rodriguez, Ryan…
In December, Miami New Times published the third story in a series of investigations into Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that had been selling performance-enhancing drugs to a number of pro athletes including Alex Rodriguez. That final story looked into how gaps in state regulation let scores of unlicensed…
“Crystal” has many faces and many aliases, but her M.O., according to police, is thoroughly consistent: Cozying up to men at high-end clubs, heading home with them, and then drugging them and walking out with all their jewelry. The scam has netted the 25-year-old con artist and her crew of…
George Zimmerman’s celebrity boxing match with rapper DMX was canned earlier this month after widespread outrage over the idea of the central Florida wannabe neighborhood watchman cashing in on his killing of Miami teen Trayvon Martin. But Zimmerman probably isn’t done looking for money-making ideas. In an interview with Univision…
In December, Miami New Times published the third story in a series of investigations into Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that had been selling performance-enhancing drugs to a number of pro athletes including Alex Rodriguez. That final story looked into how gaps in state regulation let scores of unlicensed…
In Caracas, widespread street protests this week have left three dead, dozens injured, and President Nicolas Maduro’s Chavista government looking for scapegoats. (Other than the nation’s skyrocketing inflation, collapsing currency and stratospheric crime rate, of course.) Maduro has now issued an arrest warrant for the Harvard-educated opposition leader behind the…
Eddie Jackson Jr. was once a father figure to a budding basketball genius named LeBron James, but he missed out on a chance to watch LeBron’s debut in the NBA. Instead, he reported to the state pen to serve a three-year term for bilking more than $775,000 in a mortgage…
Michael Sam is the reigning SEC defensive player of the year, a first-team All American monster on the defensive line who wrecked offensive tackles for 10 1/2 sacks in America’s toughest football conference. He’s also gay, as he announced last night. Considering that Sam is one of the game’s top…
Outside a $600,000 Coconut Grove condo, the pool glittered blue in the afternoon sunlight and tennis balls popped off a green asphalt court. Inside, a tornado hit. Sharon Cohen watched her heavily tattooed Spanish husband, Alvaro, slam his head over and over against a TV set. She’d recently filed for…
P. Scott Cunningham’s dream sounds as simple as haiku. Yet making it real has proven more complex than iambic pentameter. Here’s his ambition, straight from his website: that “every person in Miami-Dade County find a poem during the month of April.” To reach those 2.5 million souls secretly yearning for…
The George Zimmerman saga has already given Florida a terrible national reputation. The mention of Miami teen Trayvon Martin conjures images of tragedy, gun-crazed neighborhood watchmen, and Stand Your Ground. So it’s not exactly helping our state’s rep that a photo of two white guys from Florida went viral this…
Amid the mixed results from the NFL’s ongoing push to make British people care about American football by playing a few games every year in London, one bizarre fact remains constant: Among Brits who do enjoy the pigskin, the Miami Dolphins are oddly popular. A survey of fans at this…
Mark Gold is one of the kings of Miami’s lucrative traffic ticket racket. His Ticket Clinic is ubiquitous and the University of Miami law alum has reaped the benefits with a $1.5 million mansion on Rivo Alto Island. But Gold doesn’t exactly seem like a happy camper. Two years ago…
For two and a half years, Canes fans have cheered on the orange and green with a Ponzi-scheme raincloud over their heads. Ever since Yahoo published an in-depth reckoning of imprisoned booster Nevin Shapiro’s claims about paying players and hosting wild bacchanals on his yacht, haters have gleefully promised everything…
On a rural block facing fields of crops a few blocks from the edge of the Everglades in South Dade, a gunfight broke out around 7:45 last night. By the time a swarm of Miami-Dade Police officers reached the remote scene, at least two people were dead and several more…
Ever seen The Great Escape? That’s the movie based on the incredible real life story of Nazi prisoners who manage to flee from their camp through an incredibly elaborate series of tunnels, fake clothing and distractions. The Florida version of that movie would be a hell of a lot less…
When Dr. Norman Block got the news in May 2012, he was incredulous. The Nobel Laureate he’d brought to the University of Miami to work on cancer research — a groundbreaking drug researcher named Andrew Schally — would lose $150,000 in funding. Schally would have to lay off two researchers…
The call came in around 1 o’clock this morning, routed from 911 dispatchers to the U.S. Coast Guard: A boat had capsized a few miles from Government Cut. When the rescue boats and helicopter arrived, they found an overturned craft bobbing in the sea with survivors barely clinging to the…
There are a lot of reasons to cook up a murder-for-hire plot, and not one of them is great. Maybe your husband is an abusive womanizer who’s cheating on you, or your business partner is embezzling loads of money. Hell, maybe you’re even an oil tycoon’s son and you’re sick…
