For months, one of the most explosive court cases in the world has been playing out in Miami’s federal courthouse. Aleksej Gubarev, a tech entrepreneur from Cyprus, sued BuzzFeed News for defamation after the news outlet published the infamous “Steele Dossier” outlining alleged Russian government efforts to sway the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump…
“He made me feel like nothing,” Loving says. “I don’t feel safe anymore. I cry every day. I have kids, and I wonder, Who will protect them if something would happen to them? I could never call the police again.”
Tasers have been promoted to police departments in recent years as a safe way to de-escalate dangerous situations. Yet in reality, the devices are far from nonlethal — a 2017 Reuters investigation turned up 1,081 cases in which someone died after being shocked. Miami’s three largest police departments have also routinely misused Tasers: In 2014, New Times reported that local cops were tasing mentally ill people, the homeless, and children as young as 6.
According to Human Rights Watch, the Saudi attack on Yemen has sparked the single-worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now. Children are starving to death, cities lay in ruins, and a horrible cholera outbreak is ravaging the poverty-stricken nation. Innocent people live in constant fear they will be vaporized by…
On Tuesday, Miami developer Robert Zangrillo was charged with crimes as part of a sprawling, national FBI investigation into rich Americans who bribe colleges into admitting their spoiled, less-than-intelligent kids. Zangrillo allegedly paid an intermediary to make it look as if his daughter, who’d failed an art history class among…
A disturbing video shared on social media last night shows several Miami-Dade Police officers violently arresting a black woman who had called for help after someone pulled a gun on her and her daughter. Juan Perez, a spokesperson for the department, said on Twitter that the officer involved has been relieved of duty and the incident is being investigated.
The Florida House of Representatives this afternoon agreed to allow smokable medical marijuana in the state, opening the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to seal the deal and make it law. Since Florida voters approved medical marijuana by more than 70 percent and Gov. Rick Scott’s Legislature banned the smokable stuff…
In the wake of the FBI’s Operation Varsity Blues, one of the most sweeping probes into college-entrance bribery and corruption in American history, U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala today called for an investigation into nationwide corruption at top-flight schools.
Joe Gruters, the Florida senator, ex-Trump campaign chair in the Sunshine State, and current state Republican Party leader, has a pretty transparent message to undocumented immigrants: Don’t bother driving. As part of the deeply racist and controversial “anti-sanctuary city” bill he’s proposing, SB 168,…
Last month, Key West became the second locale in the country to ban sunscreens containing chemicals believed to harm coral reefs. Now, officials in Miami Beach and Surfside are considering passing bans of their own. During their meeting today, Beach commissioners will consider prohibiting the sale of sunscreens…
When Twitter suspended multiple members of the Proud Boys for violating the site’s policy on “violent extremist groups” last fall, Enrique Tarrio, the Miami-based chairman of the right-wing group, was among those removed. But since Twitter doesn’t have a good way to stop a suspended user from simply making a new account, Tarrio was back on the platform in no time under a new name.
After years of the Dolphins trying and failing to make it work, it’s clear Ryan Tannehill’s seven-year tenure with the Miami Dolphins is about to come to an end. And following the Denver Broncos’ trade of Case Keenum to the quarterback-needy Washington Redskins, there are officially zero NFL teams…
Robert Zangrillo, a prominent Miami investor and real-estate developer, was charged today as part of a sweeping national college bribery case that has ensnared major college coaches and at least two Hollywood actresses. Prosecutors today alleged Zangrillo illegally paid what amounted to a $50,000 bribe to get his daughter into…
At the 1972 Democratic National Convention, a woman named Madeline Davis called for something new: The party, she said, should include gay rights in its platform. Davis, the first out lesbian delegate at a major party convention, declared that gay people were “here to put an end to our fears.”…
In March 2017, Massage Envy therapist David Egusquiza was arrested after a woman told police he had sexually assaulted her during a massage at the company’s Coral Gables location. But four months earlier, management at the spa had ignored another woman’s report of being assaulted by the same masseur, a new…
Irish mixed martial arts megastar Conor McGregor was arrested in Miami Beach today for allegedly smashing someone’s phone at the Fontainebleau resort. According to arrest documents obtained by New Times, he is being charged with two felony counts of strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief.
Throughout the 2016 Republican presidential primary, former Florida governor and current Miami businessman Jeb Bush was painted as the sensible, reasonable, and less transparently corrupt GOP alternative to Donald Trump. But it turns out that folks tied to Bush also apparently enjoy bouts of law-breaking…
The Democratic Party Monday chose Milwaukee as the site of its 2020 convention, snubbing Miami. That’s right. Milwaukee. The choice was expected despite last-minute efforts from former Miami Beach mayor and gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine and Democratic Party fundraiser Chris Korge.
Last fall, retired Miami Police Sgt. Nestor Garcia dropped by the department’s Internal Affairs office to read up on a case filed against Capt. Javier Ortiz, the former police union leader known for exploits like harassing a citizen online, calling Tamir Rice a “thug,” and bragging about his lengthy IA…
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio appears to have shared fake information over the past month as part of an attempt to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, according to a scathing report published over the weekend by the New York Times. Rubio blamed Maduro’s forces for burning a bunch of American “aid” trucks…
Cam Wake always represented the Miami Dolphins will class and integrity, even when everything around him was on fire and crashing to the ground. Wake deserved better than the past decade’s Dolphins, but he never complained or asked out.
Florida is closer than ever to legalizing recreational, adult-use marijuana. That’s according to State Sen. Randolph Bracy and State Rep. Michael Grieco, who have introduced new measures aimed at placing the legalization of recreational pot in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election.
