Failing to retain its state contract for South Florida’s foster-care services, the Miami-based nonprofit Our Kids will lay off its entire staff — most of whom will find work with new provider Citrus Health.
This past Saturday night, business owners, politicians, and socialites rubbed elbows at the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce’s 97th-annual gala. The Dr. Seuss-themed shindig included a handful of performers dressed as iconic characters such as the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat.
The Miami sports scene is stuck. Bloated contracts have the Heat waiting for cap space. The Dolphins are starting from scratch again, and the Marlins are in the process of a badly needed rebuild. None of these teams are contenders. All plan to be soon. (And hell, the Marlins nailed…
Scot Peterson, the Broward Sheriff’s Office school resource officer who failed to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the February 14, 2018 massacre, was fired today and arrested on 11 criminal charges related to his conduct the day of the shooting.
If you live in, say, Maine or Oregon, you likely don’t spend a ton of time thinking about the meteorological concept of wind shear. But for Floridians, the concept becomes immediately important from June 1 through November 30 every year.
Hialeah styles itself as the City of Progress, though the general perception sees other parts of Miami as way more popping. Hialeah just isn’t yet seen as the place to be in Miami, but property values show the city is progressing after all.
“Hold on a second — there’s someone I don’t recognize in my driveway.” Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor and one of America’s most eminent legal scholars, was chatting idly on his cell phone as he drove up to his Tallahassee home. The morning was bright and a…
This is no laughing matter. In the coming weeks, political pundits and dark-money activist groups will soon start debating drink-control regulations, licensing requirements for slushie dispensers, or added legal penalties for drink throwers — all framed as so-called “common-sense beverage-safety legislation.”
Almost immediately, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called for Hill to apologize. But instead of simply admitting he’d callously made light of anti-gay violence, Hill dug his heels in and repeatedly refused to say he was sorry.
For eight years, Carnival Cruise Line’s ships systematically dumped waste into the ocean and lied about it to regulators. After being convicted of seven felony charges related to the conspiracy, the company in 2016 agreed to a record fine of $40 million and five years of probation.
As part of the green wave that has swept America, 16 states — from ultra-liberal California to ultra-conservative Oklahoma — have allowed citizens to grow their own marijuana. But ultra-belligerent Florida has spent millions of dollars denying people the right to grow cannabis for personal consumption.
For now, it seems a majority of knowledgable and invested Marlins fans like where the team is headed.
Florida state senator and Confederate Elmer Fudd impersonator Dennis Baxley has said some mind-bendingly dumb stuff during his unfortunately long political career. He has horrible angry-grandpa opinions, except he also happens to have the power to write Florida’s laws.
The attorneys who helped secure the Flores settlement — an agreement that sets standards for the detention, treatment and release of migrant children — filed a motion today to enforce the settlement at the Homestead shelter for unaccompanied minors.
Seconds after Katel took out his camera to start shooting — before he could even take a single picture — he says a Miami Police Department officer began yelling and coming toward him. After a short interaction, Katel says the officer put him in handcuffs and seized his phone and camera.
The Miami Dolphins have the brightest future in Miami sports. Marinate on that for a moment. There is positivity surrounding the Dolphins — perhaps with more supporting evidence than in any recent year — that this current regime, the crop of players, and foundation the franchise has set up for…
Although the Miami-Dade Police Department is the eighth-largest law enforcement agency in the country, a report issued earlier this month warns that the county’s cops are woefully underprepared to deal with transgender people.
Since it reopened last year under the Trump administration, the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children has quickly expanded. But two former employees claim they weren’t trained — or paid — properly for their work at the shelter. And after they complained, they said, they were fired.
Baxley, an Ocala Republican, is in hot water again this month — not for the numerous times he’s defended the Confederate States of America or for all the absolutely horrible bills he’s proposed in the past, but for comments he made on WLRN, Miami’s NPR station, last week.
Pepper is a small, humanoid robot with a childlike voice developed by SoftBank Robotics, a Japanese tech company. She is the new greeter at the HSBC’s branch on Brickell Avenue.
Coral reefs are more than just unique, irreplaceable ecosystems full of the Earth’s natural wonders: Studies show they also act as natural storm-surge barriers that help break up gigantic waves before they steamroll over cities such as Miami.
Part of the attraction of sports is fans love to argue. Miami debates get extraspicy because of a definite us-against-everyone-else vibe. That is likely part of the reason Miami Heat fans have the most engaged online presence in the NBA. Miamians will bicker and scold their teams, but if other…
