Thanks to a draft-day trade, quarterback Josh Rosen will start the second year of his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins. Maybe you heard about this. Some are fans of the idea. Others — namely, well-known character flaw expert and part-time Miami Herald Dolphins beat writer Armando Salguero — hate the…
Yesterday, the South Miami City Commission unanimously passed a resolution saying the city will transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by the year 2040.
GEO, a Boca Raton-based company now considered the largest private, for-profit prison firm in America, held an annual shareholder meeting today in New York City — and a majority of shareholders passed a resolution demanding that GEO better report human-rights policies and violations to investors.
This year, the city has sought out local artists of color to curate installations and exhibits aimed at black visitors. The goal is to change perceptions of Memorial Day weekend and of Miami Beach.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida declared yesterday that this was, by its estimation, the worst legislative session for civil rights in ten years.
When Kaitlin McKeon was confronted with the results of her drug test, she already knew what it would show: positive for marijuana. Before she’d even enrolled in the nursing program at Nova Southeastern University, the bubbly then-23-year-old had told school officials she had a medical marijuana card and used the drug to relieve her chronic stomach pain.
Unfortunately, more rain is coming. The National Weather Service today warned that more severe thunderstorms are marching toward Miami as we speak.
Sure, there’s probably more to it, but the basics of personal injury law seem pretty straightforward: negotiate with insurance companies, work out a settlement, turn over the check to your clients. But according to the Florida Bar, one Miami attorney forgot to do the last part.
College football is still three-plus months away, but Las Vegas is already putting down some lines in the sand with predictions on how the sports’ most prominent programs will perform in 2019. For the Miami Hurricanes, the numbers are less than flattering.
This past Friday, CBS News confirmed that John Kelly — the former Homeland Security chief and White House chief of staff under Donald Trump — had joined the board of Caliburn International, the for-profit company that runs the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in South Miami-Dade. The news is…
Civil rights activists have been begging Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle for weeks to arrest county police officer Alejandro Giraldo, who was filmed brutally arresting Dyma Loving, a woman who was simply trying to report that a man had threatened to murder her with a shotgun.
Now that the NFL draft is in the Miami Dolphins’ rear-view mirror, the team needs to reassess its plan for next season. The addition of a top-flight defensive player in Clemson defensive lineman Christian Wilkins, the draft-day swap of second- and fifth-round picks for quarterback Josh Rosen, and the…
South Florida counties may prohibit teachers from carrying weapons.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has two sons who magically keep getting involved in some pretty lucrative deals with the Miami-Dade government. Julio Gimenez is reportedly part of a group looking to build an “eco-friendly” steel mill in Miami-Dade County. And, in what absolutely must just be a coincidence, the county has proposed selling Julio’s company a plot of public land for $16.8 million in a no-bid deal.
Importantly, local cops have warned the measure will likely make Floridians less safe.
On June 11, Tony Basaro is scheduled to attend an immigration hearing that will determine his fate.
A new study from Apartment List has found the Magic City has the sixth-highest income inequality among the country’s largest metros, with a wealth gap that jumped 7.5 percent between 2008 and 2017. The highest-earning households made nearly 14 times the lowest earners, according to the research.
Just in time for the weekend, a tropical disturbance moving through the Atlantic is expected to dump massive amounts of rain on Miami.
Despite ongoing efforts by the Florida Legislature to thwart the will of the people, Florida likely has the fastest-growing medical marijuana program in the nation. More than 213,000 people are enrolled, with 10,000-plus signing up every month. New York, by comparison, implemented its medical marijuana program 18 months…
Tomas Kennedy, one of the more active civil rights organizers in Florida, helped put together a large-scale protest at the Florida capitol. In response, he’s been banned from the public building for a year and can’t come back for next year’s session.
The Florida Legislature today passed a bill legalizing the use of self-driving cars statewide. Naturally, Uber — which could save gobs of money by replacing human drivers with robots — is quite pleased.
A steward on the Norwegian Cruise Line Spirit is accused of using a master key to let himself into an 11-year-old girl’s room, where he sexually assaulted her, according to a recently filed federal lawsuit.
