For more than two decades, John Rivera was the ideal of what most cops think a police union president should be: He lied constantly, threw tantrums at even the slightest personal insult, and had zero qualms about blaming black kids for getting themselves shot by the officers he represented.
As the public spat unfolded in Tallahassee this past April, it felt like the perfect metaphor for the raging culture wars in Trump’s America. Rep. Kionne McGhee, a black Democrat from Miami, was fighting for a monument to the innumerable slaves who worked and died in Florida before the Civil…
When Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at a small bungalow on a sandy Key Largo side street in October 2015, they found the worse murder scene the Keys had seen in more than two decades: a young couple, Tara Rosado and Carlos Ortiz, brutally executed in their bedroom just a few feet from Rosado’s three young children.
As New Times revealed in an investigation published Tuesday, former Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Pastor Bob Coy — who once led the largest megachurch in Florida — was accused in 2015 of molesting a girl for more than a decade, beginning when she was 4 years old. Coy was never charged in the case and had already resigned from Calvary over an admitted string of extramarital affairs.
The call came from California. A woman told Coral Springs Police she had recently learned something terrible: A South Florida man had molested her daughter for years. It began when the girl was just 4 years old. An officer noted the information and called the victim, who was then a…
John Jackson, a 50-year-old fast-food employee from Fort Lauderdale, was working on a broken-down car at a convenience store around 1 a.m. October 21 when a tall, lanky man in a white tank top approached. The two talked for a few minutes until the man suddenly pulled out a gun, shot Jackson once in the head, and calmly jogged away.
The swagger is back, baby! The University of Miami Hurricanes are winning nationally televised games, threatening a national title run, and pissing off racists by wearing huge gold jewelry. And this past Saturday, delirious Canes fans finally turned Hard Rock Stadium into something approximating the glory days at the Orange Bowl.
Robin Bernstein has been a staple on Palm Beach’s swanky political scene for decades and, despite starting out as a Democratic consultant, rose to become a major GOP operative, a Mar-a-Lago member, and a longtime Donald Trump pal. Now she’s been nominated to represent the U.S. as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
Hugo Menjivar was just trying to help out a friend who couldn’t drive home. Instead, he says, he ended up arrested by cops on the scene who demanded his license, ran his name through a database and found a hit for a warrant in California. The only problem: The warrant wasn’t…
When news broke Friday that a grand jury had approved its first indictments in Roger Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone lashed out hard at the messengers. The South Florida resident exploded on Twitter at CNN’s Don Lemon and the New York Times’ Charles Blow — and now has been banned from the site for his tirade.
This might come as a grave shock, but Donald Trump’s bold promises earlier this week to finally blow the lid off the JFK assassination mystery by declassifying reams of secret documents turned out to be a gigantic tease. The National Archives ended up declassifying only a fraction of the JFK documents last night and mostly released details that had already been revealed.
Thousands of flights jet to Miami every day. Hundreds of them come from the New York area. On airlines such as JetBlue and American, it’s easy to find a round-trip ticket from MIA to LaGuardia for less than $300. If you’re willing to schlep to Fort Lauderdale and avoid a carry-on, you can snag a seat on Spirit for even less.
The short videos were sent to an FBI agent by a confidential informant. In the clips, a man in a black mask stands in front of an ISIS flag and outlines a brutal plot: He wants to copy the Boston marathon terrorists and detonate a bomb in Miami in the name of ISIS. The man says his motivation is simple: Donald Trump’s policies have driven him to support the Islamist terrorists.
In late 1982, Phil Sandlin was doing paperwork when a young, clean-cut Vietnam War veteran who worked as a parking valet in South Beach walked into the Associated Press office with some negatives. He said he’d snuck onto a film set on Ocean Drive and snapped a few shots of…
Gilberto Garcia bought his Surfside condo for a pretty obvious reason. Whenever the New Jersey attorney jets south to visit his son, a University of Miami student, and stays in the Carlisle on the Ocean tower, he naturally wants to hang out on the white-sand beach right in front of his building.
On Monday, President Trump outright lied by claiming that Obama and other past presidents didn’t bother to call the grieving families of soldiers killed in combat. He’d only made the outrageous claim because he’d been caught ignoring the deaths of four soldiers who died in Niger earlier this month. So…
For almost two decades, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has been a more or less sane presence in a Miami-Dade County congressional seat. Now that she’s retiring, though, a drunken clown show has pitched its tent in her district. On the left, basically every Democrat with ten bucks to spare and a few hours of free time on their hands has now entered the fray.
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory is locked in a desperate humanitarian crisis. At least 85 percent of the population still has no power — and many won’t see it restored for up to six months. Tens of thousands of residents have little food and so little to drink they’re siphoning water from rock formations to survive.
Jeffrey Loria may be riding off into the sunset with $1.2 billion freshly minted bills stuffed into his pockets, but Derek Jeter’s new ownership group has serious repair work to do with a battered and cynical fan base. One of his most pressing questions will be whether to continue pursuing the lawsuits that Loria’s regime filed against nearly a dozen former season ticketholders who walked away from multiyear packages.
As of last week, Jeffrey Loria is $1.2 billion richer and South Florida is officially free of the worst owner in professional sports. But Miami officials aren’t quite done with Loria. Both the city and the county believe the fine print of the Marlins Park deal likely entitles taxpayers to millions from the Marlins sale to Derek Jeter’s group.
This past Sunday, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross abruptly changed his tune on the NFL player protests. Ross, who’d previously supported players kneeling to raise awareness of police violence and racial inequality, told the Miami Herald’s resident Kaepernick-basher, Armando Salguero, that since President Donald Trump had made the protests “about patriotism,” he now disagreed with the move.
The Los Angeles Dodgers just finished steamrolling through the NL West en route to 104 wins, the best record in baseball and a hell of a shot at their first World Series since 1988. One of the team’s top prospects, however, has a very different kind of fight on his…
