Woman Carrying Chinese Passports, Malware Charged With Lying to Get Into Mar-a-Lago
A woman named Yujing Zhang was apprehended trying to get into Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion and resort.
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A Florida Bill Would Make It Even Harder to Sue Towing Companies for Illegally Taking Your Car
Arguably the most important rule for visiting South Beach is this: Watch out for overzealous towing companies. Tow companies for years have preyed on unsuspecting tourists and residents alike — in 2013, New Times wrote in a longform feature that Miami Beach’s towing companies were orchestrating a “decades-long, politically sanctioned operation to hold people’s cars for ransom for hundreds of dollars” and were raking in millions each year by outright tricking drivers into parking illegally using all sorts of schemes.
Trump Suggests Puerto Rico Isn’t Part of the United States After Senate Blocks Disaster Aid Bill
A year and a half after Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, the island is still recovering. Borinqueños continue to face power outages and water shortages. The agriculture industry is rebuilding from the storm’s damage to local crops. But President Donald Trump and Congress are sparring over aid. After Senate Democrats blocked a…
How the Murder of a Palm Beach Doctor Brought the United States and Cuba Together
On July 19, 2015, detectives arrived at Ronald O. Schwartz’s secluded Jupiter Farms home and found him lying on his bedroom floor, his head haloed by a pool of blood. Two back doors were open, and the entire house had been ransacked. A .40-caliber shell casing lay near him. The 65-year-old retired gynecologist and multimillionaire was dead.
Miami Police Forms Include Offensive “Oriental” Term to Identify Complainants
Using the term “Oriental” to describe a person of Asian or Pacific Islander descent is pretty much a thing of the past. States including Washington and New York have long banned the word from official documents, and the federal government finally followed suit in 2016. That’s because the term has a history of marginalizing Asian immigrants and is considered offensive by many.
Feds Stonewall on Charges That Detainees Are Chained All Day, Even in Therapy
For years, South Florida detainees have told lawyers with the nonprofit Americans for Immigrant Justice about abusive and unlawful mental health treatment behind bars, including almost round-the-clock physical restraint and monitoring. Based on those claims, the Miami group in January 2017 requested contracts and other documents related to what goes…
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Ricky Williams Says a “Weed Fairy” Followed Him After His NFL Career Was Over
According to Ricky, a “weed fairy” followed him after his retirement. Not literally, figuratively. We think. From Fuji to Australia, strangers would pull Ricky back into the comforting arms of cannabis.
A Timeline of Miami Beach’s Escalating Spring Break Crackdown
One might assume that South Beach residents enjoy living in a neon-lit, bass-thumping party zone. With some exceptions, many of them did, after all, choose to move to South Beach. But, in reality, quite a number of Miami Beach residents don’t actually like when crowds of people gather to drink and dance in public — and they seem to especially get upset if those crowds include large numbers of black and brown people.
Developers Win Initial Approval for Magic City Project in Little Haiti
During a marathon meeting yesterday that lasted into this morning, City of Miami commissioners gave initial approval for a $1 billion development that would quickly transform Little Haiti from a community of Caribbean immigrants and affordable housing into a collection of glitzy high-rise condos…
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Ultra Music Festival and Miami Critical Mass Combine for a Traffic Apocalypse Today
If you thought the thousands of people trying to get to Ultra would be your only traffic headache this weekend, prepare for some bad news. Today isn’t just the first day the music festival tests its plan for transporting hordes of EDM lovers to Virginia Key. It’s also the last Friday of the month, which means cyclists with Critical Mass will take over local roads for several hours.
Everything You Need to Know About the Miami Marlins’ Opening Day
One down, 161 to go. If the Marlins’ Opening Day, 6-3 home loss to the Colorado Rockies is any indication, a little patience and understanding from fans will definitely go a long way this year. The intrigue is there, but the odds will be against the team daily. From…
Adjunct Professors at Miami Dade College, America’s Largest Undergrad College, Are Unionizing
The livelihoods of college professors have gotten increasingly precarious over the last few decades. Universities keep cutting nonscience programs and offering fewer professorships while hiring more teachers as “adjuncts,” who make just a few thousand dollars per class, per semester. A recent report from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) found that 70 percent of Florida public-university professors are now adjuncts.
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Miami’s First Drive-Thru Marijuana Dispensary Opens Today
In Miami, you can find a drive-thru for croquetas, flan, tres leches, and even vaca frita. Beginning today, you can also pick up pot — provided you have a medical marijuana card.
Miami Beach Police Chase That Killed Bystander Likely Violated Department’s Own Rules
A Miami Beach Police officer late Monday night chased down a suspect allegedly driving a stolen car — and wound up slamming into another vehicle and killing the innocent woman inside. Yet according to a copy of the MBPD’s internal rules on police chases obtained by New Times, the entire ordeal never should have happened.
Ultra Lawyer: Environmental Concerns Are Overblown, No Wildlife Will Be Harmed
This weekend, Ultra will bring around 125,000 EDM fans to its new home on Virginia Key, a wildlife sanctuary that’s normally home only to manatees, birds, crocodiles and other protected wildlife. Despite a long list of concerns raised by local nonprofit Miami Waterkeeper and other environmentalists, the festival’s organizers insist no harm will be done to the island’s wild inhabitants.
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Florida GOP Chair Is Consulting With Groups Linked to White Nationalists
The modern anti-immigrant movement in America was largely created by white nationalists and eugenicists. One of the nation’s loudest voices is a group called the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, which was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, a doctor who believed in eugenics. Tanton received funding from his…
Five Reasons Miami Got the Best Version of LeBron James
The results are in and we’re calling it: The Miami Heat got the best LeBron. It’s over. Break out those special cigars and that bottle of limited edition small-batch whiskey you were saving. We freakin’ did it, Miami. Cleveland Cavaliers? Yeah, LeBron willed…
College Students Aren’t the Problem, Miami Beach Spring Break Arrests Suggest
Miami Beach began its spring break crackdown late last year, almost four months before the first college kids arrived. In November, police Chief Daniel Oates began sending letters to college administrators and fraternity presidents warning that law-breaking students would be arrested. The city even spent $33,000 on a hard-line law-and-order social media campaign targeting undergrads.
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Liberty City Hunger Strike: Brave Men and Amazing Publicity, but Little Action So Far
One man, McArthur Richard Sr., has lost 27 pounds. Another, Anthony Blackman, has dropped 16. Seven others haven’t eaten solid food for 17 days. So far, four mayors, six county commissioners, three police chiefs, and a host of state senators, school board members, and local leaders have stopped by …
ACLU Slams Florida GOP’s “Poll Tax” Bill to Prevent the Formerly Incarcerated From Voting
A quick history refresher: After President Abraham Lincoln freed America’s slaves during the Civil War, white Southerners spent a great deal of time devising ingenious and evil ways of preventing black people from voting. Those restrictions morphed into the “Jim Crow” laws — among them were poll taxes, which forced…
Will Florida Legalize Recreational Marijuana in 2020?
More than two years after voting overwhelmingly to legalize medical marijuana, Floridians are still fighting for access. Smoking it remained illegal until just days ago. And in cities like Miami Beach, officials are hellbent on restricting where and how dispensaries can operate. Other places, including Boca Raton and Coral Springs,…
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Thank You, Chris Bosh
Tomorrow night, the Miami Heat will play the Orlando Magic. It’s a huge game that has massive playoff implications. With fewer than ten games remaining, the two teams are neck-and-neck for the eighth and final seat at the Eastern Conference Finals table. But none of it matters. The most memorable moment will take place during halftime.