It began with a simple email last November. The subject was “Follow up to Ramirez story in 2009,” and the sender, who didn’t give his name, said only that he had “some major new developments to share” regarding a three-year-old New Times piece about star slugger Manny Ramirez. Fast-forward nine…
One chapter of the Biogenesis scandal closed yesterday with MLB dropping the hammer on 13 players who bought performance-enhancing drugs at the Coral Gables clinic. But many other questions remain, including whether clinic owner Tony Bosch will ever face criminal charges and how he peddled illegal drugs without a medical…
John Errol Ferguson is a monster. Between 1977 and 1978, he killed eight people around Miami-Dade in a vicious, cold blooded robbery and murder spree. But Ferguson is also severely mentally ill. He truly believes he is the “Prince of God.” He thinks the state wants to execute him because…
There’s no question that in his day, no anti-Castro terrorist was more feared than Luis Posada Carilles. The Miami-based Cuban-American has been convicted abroad for roles in everything from the 1976 bombing that took down a Cuban airliner to a string of Havana hotel bombings in the late ’90s. But…
The fallout from New Times’ January investigation into Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic tied to selling athletes performance-enhancing drugs, looks ready to come to a head this week. Last night, USA Today reported that Major League Baseball was “prepared” to suspend eight players, including a lifetime ban for Alex…
Thanks to Anthony Weiner’s inhuman drive to keep sexy ladies talking online, Carlos Danger has ruled Twitter this week. The ex-congressman’s bid to become New York’s next mayor took a hit when a website called the Dirty posted screen caps that showed him explicitly chatting with young women under the…
The first round of explosions in Florida’s Lake County sounded like “firecrackers,” nearby residents tell the AP, and petered out by midnight last night. But 15 minutes later, the real show started. That’s when a fire at the Blue Rhino Propane Factory in Tavares reached pallets full of gas canisters…
Three days after Pedro Antonio Vargas was shot to death by police after killing six neighbors in his Hialeah apartment building, police are still trying to understand why he carried out one of Miami’s worst massacres. The 42-year-old lived with his elderly mother and never showed a violent streak in…
One of South Florida’s worst mass killings played out over eight hours in a Hialeah apartment building last night, as a gunman killed residents and took hostages inside until a police SWAT team stormed in and killed him. Specifics on the shootout are still thin this morning, but it apparently…
Next time you’re sprawled out on a towel on South Bech or lying in a hammock under a palm tree on Key Biscayne, don’t be alarmed if a man comes stumbling by wearing a backpack with more than 15 cameras sticking out in every direction. He’s probably not a Girls…
Leaving a 3-year-old home alone: bad. Leaving a 3-year-old home alone with the door open so the child can wander the hallways of your apartment building: very bad. Leaving a 3-year-old home alone with the door open in an apartment packed full of assault rifles, a grenade, and ammo: next-level,…
It’s not easy becoming a firefighter, but there’s a fairly established path to take if that’s your dream: starting intense workouts, studying up on fire codes, maybe getting some sweet tribal tattoos to fit in. Police say an 18-year-old from Florida went a different route, by buying a bunch of…
Thanks to Anthony Weiner’s inhuman drive to keep sexy talking ladies online, Carlos Danger has ruled Twitter this afternoon. Based on screen caps posted to the Dirty — and partially confirmed in a statement from the ex-congressman — “Carlos Danger” was the hilariously dashing pseudonym he used in his latest…
Ryan Braun has reportedly been suspended for the rest of the season over his connection to Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that New Times first reported was tied to selling performance-enhancing drugs to Major League Baseball players. ESPN’s T.J. Quinn reports that Braun will not fight the suspension and…
Ever since the Los Angeles Dodgers called him up to the big leagues in June, rookie outfielder Yasiel Puig has been absolutely destroying pitchers. The Cuban defector has already swatted eight home runs and nearly made the All-Star team as a write-in candidate. But a Cuban man now says Puig’s…
When the most important verdict in his state’s recent history came down, Gov. Rick Scott was a thousand miles away in New York. He didn’t exactly rush back to Tallahassee to face protestors upset at George Zimmerman’s acquittal, finally returning to the capital on Tuesday, but quickly decamping for the…
Without search engine LexisNexis at their fingertips, lawyers would have to walk to their local law libraries and pull down those impressive monochromatic tomes used to decorate the walls in personal injury firms’ TV ads. Legal life, in other words, would grind to a halt without services like Lexis. But…
Two months after David Beckham jetted to Miami to meet with a Bolivian billionaire and tour stadiums around Dade County, reports are trickling out of Britain this week suggesting that South Florida soccer fans’ hopes might just be true. Becks is close to announcing that’s he’s going to start an…
If the Stevie Wonder boycott and the thousands signing MoveOn petitions didn’t convince lawmakers they were going to face serious pressure to repeal the Stand Your Ground law after George Zimmerman’s acquittal, last night’s NAACP convention finale should do the trick. First U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sharply criticized the…
After months of heated arguing, slick production pitches and a last minute curveball from the city manager, Miami Beach has finally chosen a team to redevelop its convention center and spearhead SoBe’s biggest project in decades. The winner is ACE, the team fronted by Prinzker Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas. The ACE…
The thunder rumbled over South Beach around 5 a.m. this morning, just before the torrential downpour. Less than 20 minutes later, more than a foot of water had surged up and over the lower lying parts of SoBe. Hundreds of residents who didn’t leap out of bed to move their…
After Trayvon Martin’s supporters mourned Saturday’s not-guilty verdict, hundreds of thousands have turned to the Department of Justice to urge the feds to make a second attempt to convict George Zimmerman of civil rights violations. The DOJ has confirmed that its inquiry into the case remains open, but mass public…
