If there’s one thing Miami is known for in the sports world, it’s being an event town. Sometimes that event is one night. Sometimes it lasts four years. Occasionally, it comes out of nowhere and is a must-see.
Looking for a way to mourn the senseless deaths of 17 students and teachers who were killed by a deranged gunman and possible white-supremacist militia member? If you’re devoid of human empathy, you could drive to the Fair Expo Center tomorrow or Sunday — exactly 46.9 miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland — and shop for assault rifles.
Congressman Ron DeSantis is arguably the frontrunner to become the Republican Party’s candidate for Florida governor in 2018 thanks to President Donald Trump’s nearly random endorsement of him weeks ago.
The leader of a Florida white-supremacist militia has told the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people yesterday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, trained with the group. Members of the white-nationalist Republic of Florida came forward on the message-board website 4chan…
Yesterday, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz carried an AR-15 rifle into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, riddled the building with bullets, and killed 17 students and teachers. The massacre was worse than Columbine. Cruz showed about as many warning signs as a suspected school shooter possibly could (and had likely been reported to the FBI)…
Before police even had a chance to clear out the bodies from yesterday’s horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, right-wing hack and conspiracy theorist Mark Dice took to Twitter to post a predictably bad take.
Everyone knew Nikolas Cruz was deeply disturbed. He’d been in and out of mental health treatment. He’d been kicked out of school. His Instagram page was full of photos of dead animals and weapons. He was so frightening to teachers that he’d been banned from even carrying a backpack into school.
As Hurricane Irma barreled toward Florida last summer, some workers faced an impossible decision: follow evacuation orders and risk being fired, or stay in the path of what officials were calling a storm of catastrophic, never-before-seen proportions.
A gunman has apparently opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, just west of Deerfield Beach. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) announced moments ago that multiple victims had been reported at the scene. The nearby Coral Springs Police Department has instructed residents to avoid the area and told…
After five years in business at the Village at Gulfstream Park, the owners of Fate — a swanky nightclub that plays mostly hip-hop music — were ready last summer to extend their lease another five years. But for months, Ramzi Naber and Philip Houston have been unable to reach an agreement with management at the Hallandale Beach mall, which is memorable mostly for its ginormous statue of Pegasus stomping a dragon.
If you’re reading this, you’ve already read the headline and likely clicked this article for one of two reasons: You agree Dwyane Wade is the greatest athlete to ever play for a South Florida professional sports team, or you’re here to skim the article and leave a comment that says something to the effect of Umm, ever hear of Dan Marino, idiot?
The president of the United States this week proposed drowning wide swaths of the American landscape, and it barely made front-page news. The White House’s 2019 budget request proposes cutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate-research initiatives by 37 percent — from $158 million in 2017 to only $93 million in 2019.
Sitting in an unmarked police car in a dark lot outside her Allapattah apartment, Sara was crying and shaking uncontrollably. The dashboard clock glowed 2 a.m. Three weeks earlier, she had called 911 to report that her boyfriend had violently raped her.
Donald Trump’s deportation forces appear to be using Florida as a testing laboratory to devise new and ever-more draconian ways to clamp down on documented and undocumented immigrants nationwide. Last month, a group of Central and North Florida sheriffs announced plans to partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a pilot project designed to detain immigrants in jail for even longer stretches of time, for example.
Many Little Haiti residents already have indigestion over the 45,000-square-foot Magic City Innovation District proposed for their neighborhood. In 2016, developers announced plans to build a gigantic, “walkable campus” smack in the middle of the area, along NE Second Avenue from 60th to 64th Streets.
In the courtyard of an oddly palatial, Spanish-style ophthalmology office in Palm Springs, Florida, a man in an open-front vest and gray face paint stands on the edge of a gurgling water fountain. Suddenly, he swings a roundhouse kick at an older man in a bowler hat and a long…
The 23,075 Marlins fans who filed into Little Havana May 17, 2015, had no idea they were about to witness history. The Fish were already six games under .500 that Sunday afternoon, and Miami soon stumbled toward another putrid 6-0 loss to the Braves. But then came the sixth-inning break.
Florida and marijuana are already a well-matched couple. Jimmy Buffett, the state’s de facto songwriter-in-chief, supported himself as a weed smuggler and wrote odes to mary jane. The tropical climate is perfect for growing herb. And finally given the chance on a statewide ballot, more than seven in ten voters hopped on the medical-marijuana train in 2016.
Florida saw the nation’s largest spike in immigrant arrests in 2017. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehensions shot up 75 percent after Donald Trump took office. Though the U.S. is still arresting and deporting far fewer people than it did under Barack Obama, the fact is that the vast majority…
Miami resident Jocelyn Morffi married her longtime partner, Rebecca Hass, at a sun-lit outdoor ceremony at the Key Largo Lighthouse Saturday, February 3. By the end of the week, Morffi had been fired from her job teaching first grade at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic School.
WSVN News TV producer Robin Cross apparently got really pissed off at her neighbor during a parking dispute earlier this week. In a video first obtained by local gossip blogger Jose Lambiet, Cross, 49, screams the N-word at her neighbor Robert Fenton because his son is in an interracial relationship. Cross yells that he “dates a fucking nigger.”
As hundreds of thousands of Philadelphians climbed greased poles and watched a fat man in a genie costume scream profanities to celebrate the Eagles’ Super Bowl win, the 2017-18 NFL season officially went in the books. Any news coming out beginning today will officially be next-year NFL news. And according to Las Vegas, for the Miami Dolphins, next-year news is likely to be bad news.
