In an astounding last-minute victory over the NBA champion Golden State Warriors, Dwyane Wade hit an astounding buzzer-beating three-pointer that renders completely irrelevant how lousy the Miami Heat’s season may end. The all-star guard, who is playing his last season, had a more-than-solid game, scoring 25 points in…
“Marijuana legalization is coming,” Sen. Randolph Bracy says as he talks up his resolution that would place the legalization of recreational marijuana in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election. “There are going to be a couple of bills proposed this year to regulate it,” he says, “But…
In a stunning congressional hearing, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified the president lied under oath in a civil case involving the doomed Trump Tower and International Hotel project on Fort Lauderdale Beach. “Isn’t it true that President Trump misled at best or, at worst, lied under oath [in a Fort Lauderdale case deposition]?”…
While the Democratic party’s left flank is pushing lawmakers to extend Medicare to all citizens and/or create a “single-payer” healthcare system similar to what exists in every other developed nation on earth, many Florida Republicans are still coming up with new ways to chip away at health-care access in the Sunshine…
Heat season is winding down and the team is fading from playoff contention. So it’s time to assess Dwyane Wade’s stay in Miami. There have been ups, downs, memories, and heartbreaks. It’s also time to recognize something else — Wade is the greatest athlete Miami has ever seen…
Before reopening the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children last year, the U.S. government was aware of at least five prior allegations of child sexual abuse at the facility, according to Department of Health and Human Services documents released Tuesday by Florida Rep. Ted Deutch’s office.
In a bid to make President Donald Trump seem like a good person and morally upstanding businessman, Florida Congressmember Matt Gaetz just tried to publicly blackmail a federal witness on Trump’s behalf. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former “lawyer” and body-man who spent years coordinating various sketchy business deals on Trump’s behalf,…
This past October, New Times obtained a video clip of Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Manuel Regueiro throwing an utterly unnecessary punch to the face of a handcuffed suspect named Bryan Crespo. It wasn’t the first time Regueiro had been accused of using excessive force. Today, Miami-Dade County prosecutors announced they’ll charge more…
Jorge Ramos is our kind of guy. The Univision anchor is on his way to the airport in Caracas this morning after being detained yesterday for infuriating Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro with a video of young Venezuelans eating from a garbage truck. After Trump’s State Department weighed in, Ramos and…
“Hello, my love. If the unspeakable happens, this is what I want you to do with the assets and businesses.” So began what Richard Hales thought would be the last letter he would send to his wife Jenny. It arrived January 1, 2019, seven days before surgery to remove the…
Ron Book, one of the most powerful lobbyists in Florida, was arrested Sunday for DUI, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office online arrest database. Book is one of the most influential behind-the-scenes political figures in the state. In addition to being the lobbyist for powerful private firms such as the prison giant GEO Group, Book is also the official lobbyist for Miami-Dade County.
Last week, notorious right-wing provocateur and misinformation artist Roger Stone sat in a Washington, D.C. courtroom and stated that a team of Florida-based “volunteers” runs his social-media accounts, handles his cell-phone, and “revolves” in and out of his home. Stone listed three well known members of the Proud Boys extremist…
Throughout Marco Rubio’s push to attack Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the Florida senator’s defenders have claimed it would be nothing like the military disasters of the past. But Rubio yesterday seriously undermined that argument — by comparing this new conflict to the ’80s Cold War and catastrophic 2011 invasion of Libya.
This past Saturday night, the Heat’s season died. The team’s 119-96 loss to the Detroit Pistons was as ugly as it was sad. It dropped Miami’s record to 26-32, good for the tenth spot in the East.
Historically, the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), a trade group that represents and lobbies on behalf of payday loan companies, has held its annual conference in California during odd-numbered years. But this year, the organization plans to host its 2019 event at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doral.
Broward County cannot stop itself from generating problematic rappers who create fantastic music but destroy their careers. First, there was Kodak Black, who shot to fame despite the fact a fan says he brutally raped her. Then there was XXXTentacion, who, before his untimely passing, was accused of sexual abuse and other crimes.
In a case that illustrates America’s bizarre and quasi-colonial relationship with the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard announced today that, while its officers were just buzzing around in Bahamian airspace over Andros Island, about 154 miles from Miami, its officers “smelled” marijuana…
In an absolutely staggering announcement, Jupiter Police today announced that billionaire and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with soliciting prostitution in Palm Beach County. Kraft is one of 25 people who have arrested as part of a huge sex-trafficking sting. The TC Palm yesterday reported that,…
There has definitely been a 66-percent-on-Rotten-Tomatoes sort of feeling about the Marlins’ new look, but on the bright side, the revamped logo and uniforms are a massive improvement from the Circus Circus Las Vegas strip look the team donned prior. Beggers can’t be choosers, we suppose. As it turns out, a new study found Marlins fans weren’t the only people underwhelmed by the team’s new look. People outside Miami had the same feeling.
By now, the havoc wreaked by opioids on communities across the United States — especially in white, rural areas — is well known. But particularly devastated have been Native American tribes, who have suffered the highest death rate from prescription opioid overdoses of any ethnic or racial group. The Miccosukee Tribe, based…
It was a strange case from the start: a prominent Florida State University law professor shot to death in broad daylight at his home in an upscale Tallahassee neighborhood. And over time, the 2014 murder of Dan Markel turned stranger still. Police quickly determined the killing wasn’t a robbery or…
Roger Stone today is sitting in a D.C. federal court begging a judge not to crack down on him for being, well, Roger Stone. The Fort Lauderdale resident was arrested last month as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump administration and Russian hackers.
