Diddy Kong looks a bit like a mini Furby come to life. The 3-year-old monkey stands at just five inches tall — so tiny he gets bathed with a toothbrush. Miami model Gabriella Katia and her boyfriend Matt Crown were obsessed from the moment they saw him at a Fort Lauderdale animal sanctuary.
CNN aired some pretty depressing footage from a Miami-based Brett Kavanaugh “focus group” last week. The network claimed to have found five typical Latina voters who all believe that Supreme Court nominee and very normal carpool dad Kavanaugh did not try to rape Christine Blasey Ford when the two were in high school. All five women appeared to live in the feminist version of the Sunken Place.
Miami-Dade kinda decriminalized marijuana in 2015. That year, the county commission gave police officers the option of issuing civil tickets, like traffic fines, instead of arresting people caught with 20 grams of pot or less. The measure was hailed as a massive win for justice-reform advocates, who rightfully argue that pot possession is harmless and not worth jail time.
It seems pretty common that Miami-area cops mishandle evidence and critical police property. Mere days after a group of Miami Police Department civilian employees were fired for driving away with property stored in evidence lockers, a City of Miami Beach worker, Jason Bruder, was hit today with nine misdemeanor charges…
The case of a 19-year-old allegedly assaulted by a Miami Police officer in some ways mirrors that of Christine Blasey Ford, the research psychologist who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted sexual assault.
In 2014, Miami-Dade County prosecutors said Rickey L. Davis was a killer. State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s office, working with Miami-Dade Police, announced it had determined Davis had strangled then-26-year-old Joycelean Burrows to death in Liberty City in 1986. Reporters blasted Davis’ mugshot all over the press and claimed new DNA evidence had solved the case after nearly 30 years.
At the end of July, the Florida Department of Transportation closed two westbound lanes on the MacArthur Causeway, kicking off a two-year, $12.9 million rehabilitation project on one of the two main links between Miami and Miami Beach. The repairs must take place, FDOT says, because the causeway is dangerously corroded, in large part as a result of years of salt spray from Jet Skis blasting the structure.
Bryan Deneumostier helped run the website StraightBoyz for roughly four years.
Florida’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis not only has said and done racist things but also continues getting caught hanging out with racist nutjobs. New Times in April disclosed that he spoke at a virulently anti-Muslim event with Steve Bannon and Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017. Then the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found that DeSantis appeared…
On November 27, 2016, Naples resident John O’Brien, his adult children, and his two young grandchildren slid into their seats at Hard Rock Stadium for a Miami Dolphins game. A huge San Francisco fan, O’Brien, decked out in a red 49ers shirt, was ready to watch his team take on Miami.
No matter your thoughts on the political and economic crises in Venezuela, the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, definitely should not be seen snacking on luxury meats while his constituents starve. This is something of a recurring problem for Maduro.
Just before the November 2016 election, a federal judge forced the Florida Division of Elections to allow rejected absentee-ballot voters to correct mistakes on their mailed-in forms. Yet somehow even more ballots ended up being rejected in that election than in 2012 — and younger voters and voters of color, who overwhelmingly lean to the left, had their ballots invalidated at a far higher rate.
For the past ten years, Rhyelle, a 72-year-old Sarasota County resident, hasn’t been able to cast a ballot. He is one of the roughly 1.5 million Floridians who lost their right to vote because, in 2008, he was convicted of a felony for growing marijuana for his personal use in his home.
If you’ve ever played soccer in Miami, you’ve seen it happen dozens of times: Someone makes a hard tackle or calls a borderline foul. Suddenly, the testosterone flows like cafecitos from a ventanita. Sweaty faces are pushed together. Someone screams, “¡Puta!” Chests are shoved. An irate striker grabs the portable goals and tries to walk off the field.
What if everything you thought you knew turned out to be wrong? What if right was left, and up was down? What if, for just one year, all the things you knew to be bad were actually, uncharacteristically, not so bad?
Clarens Desrouleaux spent five years in prison for burglary before he was deported to Haiti last year. The problem is that he never stole anything from anyone. Desrouleaux was, in fact, a victim of a heinous scheme by former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano in which he told his cops to frame black residents for burglaries in order to make his department seem competent.
Nusret Gökçe, better known as Salt Bae, has built a global restaurant empire by turning himself into a sodium-tossing, skimpy-T-shirt-wearing Instagram meme. But the Miami outpost of his Nusr-Et steakhouse chain has been troubled from the start, bedeviled by lukewarm reviews and the Turkish chef’s decision to engage in some Fidel Castro cosplay.
Bud Conlin, a heavily bearded former high-school principal with a grandfatherly demeanor, has been showing up at the Krome Processing Center once a week since 2014. He’s the co-coordinator of Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees, a nonprofit that visits people at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, buys them books, and puts money…
Maria Busto stands on the deck of a small boat stopped about a half-mile from the Coconut Grove shore. She grips the rail as she peers down at what remains visible of a half-sunken sailboat. “Yep, that’s Barnabas,” says Busto, wearing jean shorts, sneakers, and her reddish-brown hair tied back…
After working as a TV reporter in Los Angeles, Michele Gillen in 1997 joined WFOR, Miami’s CBS affiliate. Since then, she’s been nominated for 46 regional Emmys and won 25. But she says her career as an investigative reporter suffered thanks to a culture of sexism, bullying, and harassment at the network.
When the Washington Post revealed earlier this month that Ron DeSantis, Florida’s #MAGA GOP gubernatorial candidate, had appeared at conferences organized by David Horowitz — a guy who has minimized the impact of slavery in American history and argued there’s a “race war” against white people — DeSantis lashed back and insisted he was the victim of a “smear campaign.”
Confronted earlier this year by investigators from the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo admitted he showed up outside a valet parking lot for the Little Havana nightclub Ball & Chain around 1 o’clock on early morning in February. But he denied claims he whipped…
