Accused rapist and ultrapopular South Florida rapper Kodak Black live-streamed his own arrest last week. A masked squad from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office descended on his Pembroke Pines mansion as Black and a large entourage of friends, including Black’s own toddler — named King Khalid — hung out in a…
Despite New Times basically devoting an entire beat to Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz’s shameful exploits over the last decade, he’s only managed to fail upward, ascending the ranks from lieutenant last year. While he’s technically stepped “down” from running Miami’s Fraternal Order of Police union, he remains the…
Last week, Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asking her to investigate two of Florida’s most prominent Democratic leaders, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, for running “sanctuary cities” that refuse to detain immigrants on behalf of the…
When Nancy Tyler found out a teacher at her daughter’s charter school had been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student, she was — understandably — concerned. Though the teacher didn’t work at her daughter’s campus, Tyler wrote in an email to Miami Arts Charter leaders that the entire…
In 2015, residents living near Lake Carmen, a manmade body of water in unincorporated Northwest Miami-Dade, complained that a landowner had tried to fill in the lake with toxic soil, which included traces of reclaimed asphalt, tile, lead, arsenic, and petroleum. But the county’s Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) says it’s…
Most people hate the New England Patriots a lot. Like, a healthy, normal, understandable amount that comes with all the winning they’ve done over the last 15 years. That hatred continued to rise as the Patriots clinched yet another Super Bowl appearance last weekend when they came back to beat…
The Knight Foundation holds massive sway in Miami. It’s one of the biggest nonprofits in America and funds a huge number of journalistic, charity, and community initiatives around town. The foundation’s last Miami program director, Matt Haggman, recently resigned to run for Congress and has been a leader in early…
On November 26, Fort Lauderdale Police found Bob Karpinen slumped over dead on a bench at Colee Hammock Park. Identifying the body wasn’t difficult — the 58-year-old had an ID in his wallet and a pill bottle with his name and his doctor’s name listed on the side. Officers Jesus Gonzalez and Scott Bellinger filled out a report, jotting down contact information for Karpinen’s 77-year-old mother in Delray Beach.But for some reason, neither officer bothered contacting her or anyone else in the family. Within hours, Karpinen’s body was hauled off, his property seized, and the report closed out.
Florida’s law denying the right to vote to anyone ever convicted of a felony is racist. Full stop. It was passed in 1868 by white-supremacist lawmakers enraged at the 14th Amendment, knowing full well that a crooked criminal justice system would ensure far more blacks than whites would be stamped with lifetime voting bans.
The Miami Marlins shouldn’t meet Yelich’s demand for a trade.
Overtown residents were already worried about the proposed Miami Innovation District and the under-construction Miami WorldCenter, both of which cross into the historically black neighborhood. The once-segregated area has been systematically destroyed by terrible urban planning for decades. Now locals worry that without better regulations, the new buildings will drive up real-estate prices and push out longtime residents.
Floridians still don’t have an answer to what might be the most pressing statewide political question of 2018: What does Bill Nelson stand for? After Nelson voted yesterday to end the brief government shutdown without forcing Republicans to agree to protect undocumented immigrants, Floridians still don’t know the answer to that question…
At her home in the tiny village of Palm Springs, just outside Lake Worth, Anna Mae Kiger started each morning the same way. After rising around 7, she walked down the driveway to pick up her newspaper. Then the 75-year-old Air Force veteran hoisted an American flag high up a…
“This is new?” a worried passenger asks while she films U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents stalking the aisle of a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale and demanding proof of citizenship from the riders. Moments later, the agents arrest a passenger, pulling her and her luggage off the bus.
These days, the U.S. Army predominantly recruits from Southern states. According to 2013 enlistment data, Georgia and Florida have two of the nation’s highest per-capita rates of locals joining the Army. However, a study released earlier this month by researchers at the Citadel, one of the military’s major universities, issues a warning.
Blanco laid the violence on thick to convince male kingpins around her that she was not to be messed with.
Miami, much like its tourist-haven compatriot Last Vegas, regularly gets flooded with odd groups of convention delegates. Typically, those attendees represent boring industries like the National Corn Growers’ Association. But this week, Miami has been invaded by Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investors.
The Miami Dolphins should sign Miami native Teddy Bridgewater to back up Ryan Tannehill next season.
When a series of disturbances and insurrections erupted across state prisons nationwide in 2016 on the anniversary of New York’s 1971 Attica prison riots, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) danced around acknowledging whether a set of incidents that had occurred in the Sunshine State were related to the nationwide movement.
Various media sources are reporting this morning that Kodak Black, one of the most talented rappers in South Florida but a magnet for trouble, has been arrested for grand theft of a firearm, possession of marijuana, child neglect, two counts of possession of a weapon by a felon, and two counts of probation violation.
Bill Nelson has been representing Florida in Washington, D.C., since 1978. He was promoted from U.S. representative to senator in 2001. But he might lose a reelection bid this year to Florida’s governor and ageless Lich-King, Rick Scott, unless the 75-year-old can make Florida voters feel some enthusiasm for the scarecrow-made-from-used-mulch that is Bill Nelson.
Amazon has narrowed its list of cities for a second headquarters to 20, and amazingly, Miami is there along with New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Austin, and Atlanta.
