More Cubans have attempted to reach Florida this year than last year, new numbers from the Coast Guard show. That, of course, has lead to speculation that the new migration has been sparked by Obama’s diplomatic thaw with Havana, as Cubans worry that the wet-foot, dry-foot policy might be on…
Earlier this summer, the nation was startled to learn that the FBI operates a fleet of more than 100 small planes that gather surveillance around American cities. The planes, an Associated Press investigation revealed, fly low in mysterious circular patterns; their registrations, meanwhile, are often tied to fake companies. “The…
Patrick Wanninkhof loved bicycling, beat boxing, and helping people. Wanninkhof had a megawatt smile, a mop of curly brown hair (sometimes), and an affinity for math and engineering; he grew up in Key Biscayne, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida, and then taught physics and computer science…
Early on a Tuesday afternoon, Valentina Baiz, an 18-year-old FIU student, was walking in Wynwood with a friend and carrying a large purse. According to a police report, as she strolled east along Northwest 22 Street — just a couple blocks from Panther Coffee and Wynwood’s main business district —…
About three years ago, Sharif Salem, a native Londoner and part-time photographer, began noticing things left on the roadside around his adopted neighborhood of Little Havana: clothing, trash, miscellaneous junk. But nothing caught his eye quite like the abandoned furniture, which seemed to be everywhere, in every imaginable state. “It…
Right now, if you happen to be in the middle of the Atlantic, say 1000 miles or so east of Puerto Rico, you should really be prepared for some serious anthropomorphized weather hell. If you’re in Miami, or anywhere on land, for that matter, there’s nothing much to worry about…
In April 2012, Miami-Dade Animal Services began using a new chemical disinfectant to clean the floor of its kennel. Within weeks, multiple male dogs at the kennel developed an alarming problem, a former employee says: their scrotums were badly irritated or burned. It happened more to large dogs, and sometimes…
On October 1, 2013, more than 60 men in jumpsuits crowded into the austere cafeteria at the Krome Service Processing Center, a huge Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on the edge of the Everglades. The men, detainees from various Latin American countries, were gathered for a Spanish-language Catholic service…
Eventually, medical marijuana will be legal nationwide. Yes, even in Florida, where 58 percent support at the ballot box last time around wasn’t enough to enshrine the change in state laws. In fact, the campaign behind that last Florida medical weed effort — United for Care — is pushing hard…
Haitian president Michel Martelly, a star singer who went by the stage name “Sweet Micky,” already had plenty of problems in his desperately struggling nation. Entering the final year of his five-year term, he’s been widely condemned for corrupting the country’s judiciary branch, governing as a quasi-dictator, and empowering alleged…
Like so many others, Yovaris Pardo fled Havana and seemed to have found a happy new life in South Florida. In 2004, Pardo and her husband Rogelio built a four-bedroom house in Homestead; eventually, the couple had three boys, who loved laughing and dancing with their parents by the pool…
Welcome to another summer day, Miami. Today’s forecast: A relatively temperate high of 90, with temperature dipping into the mid-80s by early evening. Perfect weather, in other words, for joining a few dozen of your closest, sweatiest friends on a 16-mile group ride? Yep, it’s Critical Mass tonight. This evening’s…
CJ Jackson is 27 years old and weighs approximately 145 pounds. He’s a military veteran and University of Miami pre-medical student. He’s also a hellaciously talented boxer, and his first big bout — scheduled for August 15 in Wynwood — might just be the start of a pro career worth…
“I had just came in from out of town,” Yathomas Riley tells a Lee County, Georgia 911 dispatcher. “And my wife — I don’t know what’s going on, but she’s in a room, and she got blood coming out of her.” A young child screams in the background. It’s 8:30…
Smart Amanda Wiz was three years old, with reddish brown fur, pointy ears, and a distinctive white mark above her nose. The Western Reining horse was beloved by her owners and had recently competed in her first show. Early Thursday morning she was found dead in the Hialeah field near…
Last May 4, 23-year-old Ernesto Hernandez just wanted to help. Hernandez was a big guy who had recently graduated from the police academy. Like dozens of others he had come to the Nixon Sandbar, off Key Biscayne, to spend the day on the water; when he saw the boat operated…
This past March, tens of thousands of fans watched wide, sexy electric racecars zoom down Biscayne Boulevard as part of the first ever Formula E (for electric) racing series. The race marked the first time in decades — since the old Miami Grand Prix — that professional car racing had…
Eber Vasquez was killed while riding his bicycle in April of this year. Walter Reyes was killed while riding in January. Aaron Cohen was killed in February 2012, Christophe Le Canne in 2010. But in addition to those deaths, of course, are hundreds of unreported crashes between cars and bicycles…
Yathomas Riley has been tied to another suspicious shooting.
For $54.99, on the website www.prepsportswear.com, you can buy a maroon Miami Springs Senior High School Golden Hawks hooded sweatshirt, complete with an image of Golden Hawk. Or you can buy a MAST Academy Makos hat, in navy for $21.99 . Or even, for $19.99, a white Avocado Aces t-shirt,…
Around 8:40 Wednesday evening, not long after sunset, a 51-year-old woman was driving east on the Tuttle Causeway in a 2015 Chrysler van, towards Miami Beach. West of Alton Road a man was walking across the highway from south to north. He was hit by the Chrysler, his body launching…
Miami Worldcenter principal developer Nitin Motwani says he expected maybe 200 people to show up at Overtown’s St. Agnes Episcopal Church for a project job fair this past Tuesday. Instead, there were more like 500. “We were overwhelmed with excitement,” Motwani says. “It was supposed to end at 2 —…
