Frank Dennis, former denizen of Dade’s jails, doesn’t inspire much pity, what with convictions for beating up his girlfriend and attacking a police officer. In the words of one prosecutor, “It would be difficult to find a more unsympathetic victim than Frank Dennis.” But when a half-dozen male corrections officers…

Coral Gables is not only the City Beautiful, as its motto immodestly proclaims. It is also a “Tree City USA” — meaning it has been recognized by the National Arbor Day Foundation for meticulously tending the poincianas, oaks, black olives, ficus, and banyans that arc over its streets and shade…

Honey, I have got to find me a husband, just for tonight,” Wanda declares as he cuts a swath through the crowd at a party commemorating the first-year anniversary of the Living Room, the popular South Beach nightclub that occupies the space where the Strand restaurant used to be. Dressed…

Rickey Brownlee’s future will rely on which portrait – violent drug dealer or philanthropic local hero – emerges at his trial.

As Gwendolyn Ramsey, in T-shirt and shorts, shuffles into the powder blue waiting room at South Florida State Hospital, it’s easy to see the ugly scar on her right leg where a Metro-Dade police officer shot her nearly two years ago in an attempt to take her into protective custody…

It’s late Saturday night when Doo pulls the pump shotgun out of its hiding place. A bare bulb illuminates the gun’s short barrel, ventilated with several holes to cool it during repeated firing. The stock is polished wood. The barrel is painted a dull olive green. A tiny plaque on…