Stories about the U.S. government’s child migrant camp south of Miami have not been pleasant. Children have reported crying themselves to sleep every night, missing their families, and even cutting themselves at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, which was, as of earlier this year, the government’s largest detention center for immigrant kids.
You know when you stub your toe and there’s that split-second delay before your body reports back about the level of pain? Well, we all knew the Miami Dolphins were going to stub their toe against the Baltimore Ravens in the season opener Sunday, but it was so much worse than we could have imagined.
New Times this week reported that, even though Hialeah Police Officer Jessie Menocal Jr. was accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl while on duty in 2015, he was only removed from street patrols this year.
Kelvin Harris, James Archibald, and Schonton Harris sure know how much a Miami Police Department uniform costs. In monetary terms: $1,500, which is the price an undercover FBI agent posing as a drug dealer paid to buy one from the group during a federal sting.
Haitian activists in Miami are calling on the Bahamian government to suspend all immigration enforcement actions until the battered islands and their undocumented residents have had a chance to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian.
Thousands of children in Florida have been kept in conditions that a United Nations special report on torture calls “cruel, inhuman, or degrading.”
Florida was recently named one of the most stressed-out states in the nation — and South Florida one of the most stressed-out regions — so it should be no surprise that residents of the Sunshine State are turning to CBD, the nonpsychoactive compound in marijuana that has proved effective in treating anxiety.
Welcome, welcome, Miami Dolphins fans, to your 2019 #TankForTua headquarters. You’ll find an open bar next to the doughnuts in the back of the room. Because the Dolphins have apparently decided to use this season as a preseason for next season.
Throughout much of the past year, police-reform advocates in Miami have been upset with Jane Castor, the former Tampa Police chief whom the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had appointed to oversee the Miami Police Department in the wake of a scathing 2013 DOJ review that found MPD was wantonly using force against black and brown citizens.
In a blow to appointed Broward Sheriff Greg Tony’s fledgling administration, Tony’s hand-chosen undersheriff, Sean Zukowsky, abruptly left the agency today after just seven months on the job.
Despite the unfortunate distinction of having some of the most devastating mass shootings in the nation, Florida remains a fairly gun-friendly place. A state law passed in 2011 actually prohibits local governments from passing restrictions on firearms that are stricter than what’s allowed at the state level.
In July 2014, an anonymous tipster called police early one morning to report that a uniformed Miami Beach cop appeared to be drunk outside Mango’s Tropical Cafe on Ocean Drive. When officers showed up, they arrived to find their own Sgt. Mike Muley so plastered he apparently needed to be transported to Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Dozens of kilos of cocaine are washing ashore on Florida’s beaches as Hurricane Dorian moves toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas.
As Hurricane Dorian begins to slowly move away from the Caribbean, Bahamians are struggling to piece together their lives from the wreckage of the storm, which leveled entire neighborhoods on the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco. With no home to return to, many evacuees are now looking to reunite with family abroad in the United States.
Now that Florida’s cannabis culture is coming out of the closet, it’s time for a pot-inspired film festival.
There’s no sugar-coating things: The Miami Hurricanes’ loss to the Florida Gators in the season opener sucked. Losing the first game of the Manny Diaz era cuts deep, but falling to the Gators has a particular salt-in-the-wound aspect.
The property at 420 Hibiscus Dr. — just off the MacArthur Causeway on the 0.1-percenter playground that is Hibiscus Island — was built in 1937. Compared to other Florida buildings, that might as well be the Stone Age: The structure is so old it’s been deemed “architecturally significant” by the Miami Beach government.
In 2015, the Hialeah Police Department claimed it had suspended Sgt. Jesus “Jessie” Menocal Jr. and removed him from street patrols after he was accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old girl, driving her to a police building, and forcing her to strip while he pleasured himself in front of her.
Overnight, Hurricane Dorian has barely moved as it continues its assault on the Bahamas. Today the U.S. Coast Guard announced it will begin search-and-rescue missions in the Abacos. After confirming at least five dead so far, Bahamian officials report there are “a number of people in serious distress.”
The story of Maria Cazañes, the longtime Miami Beach resident evicted from her home as Hurricane Dorian approached, has spurred lawmakers to take action.
A few weeks ago, I had an unexpected phone conversation with California’s U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate whom I gave no chance of winning the black vote. Harris reached out because I’ve harshly criticized her in this column space since she began her campaign for the White House.
Category 5 winds ripped through the open windows of a home in the Abaco Islands. Outside, floodwaters surged. Portions of the roof had already blown away.
