In 2018, New Times reported that the Miami-Dade Police Department wanted to renew its long-standing contract with the Nebraska company PenLink, which sells extremely powerful cell-phone-tracking technology to local cops. At the time, information about the sort of tech MDPD was using to surveil its citizens was fairly sparse…
Somehow, Miami Beach Police Officer William Beeker’s latest incident — wherein he appears on film with semi-nude models at the police station — is not his first. Last night, WSVN broke the news that Beeker had inexplicably appeared in a series of Instagram videos in which he pretended to arrest three barely-clothed women
Miami avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Dorian, but hundreds of residents were still threatened with the loss of their homes and businesses before the storm.
For the past nine weeks, workers at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children have reported to their jobs at the facility for migrant kids, despite the fact that all children were transferred out of the camp in early August.
The greyhound industry isn’t taking defeat well. After unsuccessfully suing to keep a measure banning dog racing off the Florida ballot last year, greyhound breeders and trainers are headed back to court. This time, they’re arguing that the ban — approved by 69 percent of state voters in the 2018 election — strips their dogs of their earning potential.
A person barred from buying a gun under Florida law is also prohibited from buying ammunition — but currently, there’s nothing to stop them from going to a gun shop and walking out with a few boxes of ammo.
We now interrupt your regularly scheduled column about the Miami Dolphins for some urgent, breaking, and exclusive sports-related content. A Dolphins fan has done a thing, and you should know about it.
Last week, New Times reported on a brouhaha stirred by a recent Facebook post from Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz, who has been accused of racist dog-whistling for writing, seemingly out of the blue, that “Dade County politics” are not needed in Pembroke Pines.
For the past week, parts of Miami have basically become a water park. King tide — the phenomenon that creates sunny-day flooding due to the positioning of the moon — began last Thursday and ended yesterday. South Florida streets were soaked with saltwater, inconveniencing just about everyone.
In 2019, a grand total of 6,776 home runs were hit during the Major League Baseball season, an astounding 671 more than the previous record set in 2017. Fifteen teams in MLB broke their all-time franchise for dingers…
Twenty days — no more, no less. That’s the length of time the Bahamian government gave the island’s undocumented communities to recover from Hurricane Dorian before it recommenced deportations — just a shade less than three weeks to pick up the pieces of their lives strewn by the storm, the strongest in history to hit the northern Bahamas.
As vaping-related illnesses increase, experts at Rutgers University warn that these problems are likelier to affect marginalized communities.
In a recent Facebook post, Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz wrote a single sentence in simple white text on a purple background: “I am sure you will agree, we don’t need Dade County politics in Pembroke Pines.” What came next was a flood of confused comments followed by much debate and…
Clifford Williams Jr. and his nephew Hubert Myers spent more than four decades in prison for a murder they didn’t commit. The men were at a party in Jacksonville in the early hours of May 2, 1976, when two women in a nearby apartment were shot while they slept.
A bill that would ban abortion after six weeks and criminalize the medical procedure was filed in the Florida House yesterday, the same day a federal judge in Atlanta temporarily blocked similar legislation in Georgia.
Months after reporters revealed McClatchy News CEO Craig Forman had received a $1 million bonus and $35,000 per-month housing stipend while laying off journalists and other workers at his news corporation, employees in the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald newsrooms today publicly announced they plan to unionize.
It’s time to call it: Miami is a basketball town. No ifs, ands, or buts about it — it’s clear the Miami Heat is the darling of the Dade County sports world.
Last week, New Times published an article based on a new report by the nonprofit Education Reform Now on racial funding gaps in Florida’s public school system. Saturday, a spokesperson for the group informed New Times that the authors had mistakenly assessed the schools’ nonwhite enrollment, drastically altering the report’s findings.
Sabrian Bruton says having a cover on his license plate nearly got him killed. According to a lawsuit filed Friday by the Miami-Dade County resident, Bruton, now age 31, was driving a black Buick Encore SUV when lights flashed in his rearview mirror.
Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin and the founder of the Trayvon Martin Foundation to help families that have lost loved ones to gun violence, has picked up several major endorsements from members of the Democratic Party this week.
The devastation on Great Abaco wasn’t apparent at first. While the pilot we’d paid $1,300 for the 45-minute flight from Nassau began the plane’s descent, the teal-and-cobalt Atlantic gave way to vast expanses of jagged green spits bordering shallow, sandy lagoons. A grounded boat lying on its side some 500 yards inland was the first indication of what was to come.
As the United States moves closer to admitting record low levels of refugees, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez says the county is ready to resettle additional people. But that might not be up to him anymore.
