Florida voters overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana in late 2016. But for many patients across the state, actually getting medical pot is still almost impossible. In some cases, the state has taken months to approve applications, while suppliers that can’t keep up with the demand are constantly out of stock.
NFL cheerleaders have been in the news lately, and not for the right reasons. In April, the New York Times published a story in which cheerleaders from around the NFL told how sexual harassment, groping, and an overall lack of respect were almost a part of their job description. They were expected to escort high-paying season ticketholders and donors to functions. If they refused, they would be fired.
Rentable electric scooters have seemingly popped up in major cities and tourist destinations overnight. According to various news reports, the scooters are “ruining” Venice Beach, causing “controversy” in Nashville, and “terrorizing” San Francisco. Some of the rental companies, such as Lime, Spin, and Bird (those are real tech-company names), have received major funding from venture-capital firms, which helps explain how the little transportation devices seem to have proliferated across planet Earth in a matter of days.
A brave, free-speech MAGA warrior is under attack, America. Eugenior Joseph, a Miami native and former Westwood Christian School basketball star, says he walked into the Cheesecake Factory at Dadeland Mall with his girlfriend’s family on Mother’s Day wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat, sat down, and was — we can barely muster the strength to utter these words — ridiculed by the staff for supporting President Trump.
A prison guard at Everglades Correctional Institution is facing battery and official misconduct charges after prosecutors say he pepper-sprayed a handcuffed inmate on camera for no reason. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle says that the video evidence is clear and that the guard, Colonel Patrick Riggins, also pressured co-workers to file a false report justifying the incident.
Formula One racing is already cruising a fast track to bring a high-octane Grand Prix to downtown Miami by 2019. The city commission voted last week to begin negotiating with the international race organization to hash out the details. Now Miami-Dade County will weigh in on the idea, which has drawn opposition…
Rudy Giuliani, a person who seems to spend 97 percent of his day in front of a Fox News camera screaming about how his enemies commit crimes all the time, apparently employs a very special crime-committer of his own. Florida prosecutors now allege a woman in Giuliani’s employ committed insurance fraud in Broward County in 2017.
For a guy who once had fangs permanently bonded onto his teeth, who rose from a ring of fire for a televised audience of millions, who made the tabloids after spitting a goblet of blood in Donald Trump’s face, David Heath is actually kind of a wallflower. When he first…
The buzzed-on-the-sides, long-on-top haircut is now so ubiquitous among millennials that it has passed the point of even seeming edgy or new at this point. Among hipster-fashion types, the shaggy ’70s look is in vogue, and most rock bands and male models are growing their hair out into mop-tops once more. Buzzing the sides of your head is simply a sign of basic grooming and fashion sense in 2018: It looks clean, tidy, and uncontroversial.
After a huge U.S. Supreme Court decision today, gambling on sports might be legal in some states in time for this fall’s NFL season. But Florida won’t be one of them.
If Miami is in a bad mood this morning, it’s understandable. This weekend was the rare two-day stretch of relentless gray clouds, driving rain, and flash floods with barely a second of sunshine. Now the city has woken up to a gloomy Monday of booming thunder and even more rain.
Just as the Miami City Commission was wrapping up a marathon meeting last night, Commissioner Joe Carollo turned to Commissioner Ken Russell and began chuckling.
Miami-Dade does not currently have any idea what to do about to its homeless sex offender camp, an ongoing catastrophe that New Times first exposed more than a decade ago with a story about a camp underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Harsh residency restrictions, which prevented sex offenders from living within thousands…
In a 2016 clip uploaded to YouTube, North Miami’s Democratic state Senator, Daphne Campbell, told an interviewer that her mother and father were dead. She added that her husband’s parents were also dead. In fact, she said basically everyone close to her either was deceased or lived far away.
Miami Beach is loud 365 days of the year, and 366 days when it’s a leap year. Pitbull sits atop an entire subgenre of pop-rap dedicated to singing about how, at its core, club-filled, liquor-fueled, sleep-deprived Miami Beach is an extremely loud place to be.
After WLRN caught him spreading misinformation about Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s referral to the controversial Promise disciplinary program, Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie blamed scattered record-keeping in the district. But a former assistant principal at the school where the program is housed now says Runcie is also misleading the public about how student discipline data is kept.
The fourth edition of Rolling Loud will kick off this Friday, but the scenery won’t be as spectacular as past years for fans forking over $300 to watch Future, Rick Ross, 21 Savage, Migos, J. Cole, and a platoon of other rap stars. The breathtaking view of Biscayne Bay that was the backdrop to last year’s Rolling Loud is being replaced with the hot asphalt of Hard Rock Stadium’s parking lot in Miami Gardens.
If you ask a random visitor to name five things Miami is famous for, “nice restaurants” is bound to make the list. There’s a reason rich people hang out here, after all. No one is laying out $3 million for a beachfront condo if they have to eat dinner at Denny’s on a Friday night.
Brightline, the privately funded, lemon-yellow intercity express train, has been promising higher-speed transit to South Florida tourists and locals for years. But its first few months have been underwhelming…
LeBron James is taking his talents to Wynwood. Unfortunately for Miami Heat fans, those skills won’t include the chest-pounding, buzzer-beating, basketball-unicorn variety they’d prefer.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, a prosecutor with a knack for upsetting criminal justice–reform advocates and civil rights lawyers, has lately taken a different tack on cops caught abusing suspects. Rundle has still never charged a cop for a fatal on-duty shooting in her 24 years in office…
Welcome to the deadest of the dead time in South Florida sports history. That’s right now. It’s happening. Well, actually nothing is happening, which is the historic part.
