For decades, Latin American strongmen have had an escape route when their violent regimes are forced out of power: stashing millions in ill-gotten gains in Florida beachfront property and hiding out in the tropical sunshine. But those days might finally be ending thanks to a landmark jury verdict in Fort Lauderdale yesterday.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt for years has been a known shill for energy-industry polluters. But he might have finally committed an act so brazenly corrupt he loses his job: It turns out Pruitt was spending only $50 per day to live in a prime-location D.C. townhouse owned by the family of an ultrapowerful oil-and-utility-industry lobbyist.
In a federal courtroom in Miami this past Tuesday, Chief Judge K. Michael Moore read the arrest history of local car dealer and former reality TV star Ted Vernon, who had so far avoided conviction on all the charges…
The beach is one of the defining facets of Miami that make this city magic. The white sands are Florida’s identity — an oasis that beckons everyone and belongs to no one, not the billionaires in beach chairs or the kids skipping class and sitting on their backpacks in the sand. But all of that might change very soon.
Are Miami PD officers regularly riding around posing as fake Uber drivers, or was this a one-time sting? The department hasn’t responded to multiple calls from New Times about the undercover Uber. A spokesperson for Uber declined to comment but confirmed the company had no knowledge of this incident.
Just how deep in trouble is Miami-area U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo? Long before national signs pointed toward a blue tsunami this fall, Democrats had already targeted him — an obvious choice since Hillary Clinton crushed Donald Trump in Curbelo’s district by an eye-popping 16 points.
Roger Stone, South Florida’s infamous political hit man, is not capable of keeping his mouth shut. He has spent decades on the attack, getting called in when, say, politicians want someone to stage a fake riot or smear the parents of a dead American soldier.
Pepe and Enrique, both American brown pelicans from South Florida, have spent nearly two decades as a devoted same-sex couple. At the beginning of breeding season this past December, “the boys” — as their caretakers refer to them — built a nest together in the corner of the large pen where they live overlooking Biscayne Bay.
Here’s a sentence that perfectly describes the media hellscape in which Americans now live: Mere weeks after he hid in a closet to avoid being murdered in a school shooting, 18-year-old Parkland massacre survivor David Hogg is now the subject of the smear website HoggWatch.com, which has published multiple articles comparing him to a member of the Hitler Youth.
For decades, Coconut Grove residents have trekked to a sliver of land at the end of St. Gaudens Road to enjoy the rare unencumbered view of Biscayne Bay. Someone even put a bench there. But enjoying the view hasn’t been easy since a mysterious developer — reportedly hired by the heir to a Venezuelan oil fortune and onetime coup leader — snapped up the lot next door.
Maggie Fernández showed up at last week’s Miami Sea Level Rise Committee meeting with a simple pitch. Her group, the grassroots Miami Climate Alliance, wants the city to account for all the money it spends battling rising seas and then sue oil companies and carbon polluters to pay the bill instead of raising residents’ taxes.
The pro-Second Amendment right wing officially broke its brain last month. Instead of civilly disagreeing with the Parkland survivors who organized the March for Our Lives, Breitbart has accused David Hogg of giving a Nazi salute (didn’t happen), commentators and sitting lawmakers have utterly misrepresented Cuban politics and accused Emma…
The Marlins’ five-year plan to win a championship looks much better than the Dolphins’.
By nearly every metric, Miami-Dade County is one of the most difficult places to live if you don’t make a ton of money. The county’s median income is a staggeringly low $44,000, compared to the $80,000 median income in a comparably expensive city such as Seattle. That means Miamians wind up spending a higher percentage of their incomes on rent than residents of any other city in America.
Seven years ago, filmmaker Tiller Russell was preparing to meet with the former Russian mobster at the center of Miami’s craziest true-crime caper of the ’90s. And he was hoping — or more like praying — a guard at a prison deep in a Panamanian jungle wouldn’t screw him over…
In a truly surprising sequence of events, it took less than one month from the massacre at a Parkland high school for Florida lawmakers to take actual legislative action. March 9, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill allowing law enforcement to petition the courts to take guns away from people thought to be a danger to themselves or others. It was the first firearm restrictions supported by Florida Republicans in more than 20 years.
Earlier today, Environmental Protection Agency Chief Scott Pruitt, a man singularly obsessed with plunging Miami into the sea, got caught living in a home owned by the wife of a prominent energy industry lobbyist. ABC News found that for much of 2017, Pruitt resided in a townhouse owned by Vicki Hart, wife of J. Steven Hart, the CEO of D.C. lobbying firm Williams & Jensen, which caters to oil and energy companies.
The reviews of GAINSWave, a procedure in which men get their nether regions blasted with sound waves for better erections, are actually glowing. A Men’s Health reporter who has also tried gas-station sexual enhancement pills and something called “red light therapy” — all in the name of journalism — wrote about sprouting a boner during dinner with his grandmother after giving the sonic treatment a go last spring.
This month, the City of Miami rolled out a plan to “clean up” blighted areas — by bulldozing homes the city says are “drug dens” and “harboring illegal activity that is concerning to neighbors.” New City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez trumpeted the urban-renewal plan Safe City at a March 15 news conference while a backhoe plowed through a derelict, 92-year-old Little Havana home behind him.
Audra West was visiting Fort Lauderdale from Texas in April 2014 when she was arrested at the bar the Elbo Room. Described in reports as “very intoxicated” and “belligerent,” she was charged with disorderly intoxication, trespassing, and resisting arrest.
Christopher Steele, the British ex-spy behind the infamous dossier about President Trump’s alleged Russia links, has never discussed his explosive report under oath. That could change soon thanks to a massive lawsuit ongoing in Miami’s federal courthouse. And if lawyers for BuzzFeed get their way, Steele will have to divulge details about some of the most alarming links the dossier suggests between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
Meet the new Miami Marlins! To say a few things have changed since last season would be a Giancarlo Stanton-sized understatement. It would be like taking a two-week vacation to get a bunch of plastic surgery done on your face, then coming back and pretending nothing happened. On…
