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Thieves Steal $4,000 in Goods From Nonprofit Bike Group in Omni Park

By Jessica LipscombJanuary 12, 2018

This past Tuesday, when volunteers were preparing to open for their normal 6-to-9 p.m. shift, they discovered thieves had been broken into the collective’s modified shipping container. Someone had hauled away three new bikes, expensive tools, and a generator the nonprofit group uses to keep the lights on. The total value was $4,000. It is the fourth time the bicycle collective has been targeted since it moved to Omni Park last February, according to Ruben van Hooidonk, the group’s vice president.

Miami Beach Commissioner Accused of Attempted Sexual Battery, Report Says UPDATED

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 11, 2018

Commissioner Ricky Arriola is reportedly the subject of an investigation into attempted sexual battery, the Miami Herald reported minutes ago. Both Miami Beach Police and Arriola himself confirmed the existence of the investigation to the Herald. He has not been charged with a crime.

Wasserman Schultz Votes to Extend Trump’s NSA Spying Powers

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 11, 2018

Broward and Miami-Dade County U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a leading Democrat, just helped hand Donald Trump, a man too dumb to tweet the word “tap” correctly, extra powers to spy on American citizens without a warrant. She joined 54 other Democrats in voting down a measure to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency’s unprecedented warrantless spying program.

Miami Heat Wins Sixth Straight, Moves Into First Place in Southeastern Division

By Chuck StrouseJanuary 11, 2018

The Heatles aren’t back, but Miami’s scruffy bunch of locals is playing some kind of basketball. A day after defeating the Toronto Raptors with an amazing, last-minute basket by shooting guard and long-ball wiz Wayne Ellington, the Heat beat the Indiana Pacers last night for its first win in Indianapolis since LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade played together.

Rick Scott’s Oil-Drilling “Win” for Florida Was Probably Illegal

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 11, 2018

When you’re pals with the dumbest person ever elected U.S. president, it’s pretty easy to convince the Leader of the Free World to do some stupid shit that makes you look good. Take Florida Governor Rick Scott: After Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, announced a plan this…

BSO, Deerfield Beach Ignore Claim That Manager Forcibly Kissed Employee, Said He “Loved Black Women”

By Jessica LipscombJanuary 11, 2018

In September 2015, Lisa was working as a pier attendant at the Deerfield Beach Fishing Pier when her boss, public works director Charles DaBrusco, called her into the bathroom to check out a broken toilet. Once the two were inside, however, it became clear he hadn’t summoned her for a maintenance issue.

Angie Chirino, Daughter of Cuban Pop Icon Willy Chirino, Running for Congress in Miami

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 11, 2018

For one brief moment, it appeared the congressional race to replace retiring GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in her central-Miami district would be boring. The Republican candidates, led by the charismatic-as-a-rock Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, couldn’t scrape together 10 cents among them.

ICE Agents Raided Five South Florida 7-Eleven Stores This Morning

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 10, 2018

Nestor Yglesias, ICE’s South Florida spokesperson, confirmed that five 7-Eleven locations from Vero Beach to Homestead had been visited by ICE agents today.

Florida’s Abortion Waiting Period Struck Down, but GOP Files New Anti-Abortion Bill

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 10, 2018

Late yesterday afternoon, a Tallahassee judge permanently blocked Florida from forcing women seeking abortions to undergo a useless, 24-hour waiting period before ending their pregnancies. That move seemed to deal a blow to one of the most significant women’s rights proposals passed by the frighteningly conservative Florida Legislature in recent years.

Five Rules the Miami Dolphins Must Follow This Offseason

By Ryan YousefiJanuary 10, 2018

Here are a few rules the Dolphins should follow this offseason if they hope to win their first playoff game since Bill Clinton was president.

After Collecting Millions in Taxpayer Money and Rebranding, Fusion Successor Comes to Florida

By Brittany ShammasJanuary 10, 2018

Fusion burst onto Miami’s media landscape in August 2013 with splashy hires, an influx of cash from Disney and Univision, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Gov. Rick Scott, who pledged millions to get the venture off the ground. In the four years since then, the cable channel/news website has quickly gone through several lives.

Miami Cop Charged With Snorting Cocaine Inside E11even Nightclub

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 9, 2018

According to a lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade County Court, Miami Police Officer Adrian Santos was thrown out of the downtown Miami nightclub E11even in the early-morning hours of November 18, tossed into the back of a cop car, and given a drug test. He was quickly fired but claims in court he had no idea why.

Message to Miami Beach Mayor Phil Levine: Support a Woman

By Chuck StrouseJanuary 9, 2018

Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine wants to be governor, but the outlook is bleak.

Florida Prisoners Plan Huge Strike for Civil Rights on MLK Day This Monday

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 9, 2018

When the summer sun in Florida pushes temperatures past 100 degrees, state prisoners — the vast majority of whom are stuck in jail without air-conditioning on drug charges — feel it. When those inmates work (they were forced, for example, to clean up after Hurricane Irma), they typically don’t get a dime in return. When their mostly poor families send them money for food and necessities, a $4 case of soup costs $17.

Vigilantes Mount a Controversial Effort to Take Back South Beach

By Brittany ShammasJanuary 9, 2018

Michael DeFilippi peers down a dingy Miami Beach alley a few blocks from Ocean Drive, watching intently as two men in red T-shirts and baseball caps disappear into the early-evening darkness. He’s absolutely, positively convinced they’re drug dealers — has been since hours earlier that November day, when, he says,…

Florida’s Top Lawmaker Attacks ACLU Over Racist Sanctuary-City Bill

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 8, 2018

Today marks the official beginning of the 2018 Florida legislative session (joy!), which means Tallahassee’s brightest and most powerful lawmakers are rolling out their signature legislative proposals for the year. In the leadup to today, Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, has filled out the equivalent of an entire “lunatic Republican” bingo card. During the past few weeks, he has:

Royal Caribbean Employee Raped, Then Horribly Mistreated, Lawsuit Says

By Jessica LipscombJanuary 8, 2018

A few days after Christmas in 2015, a woman working on Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas was pinned down by another crew member and violently raped, a lawsuit says. The attack, which lasted around 45 minutes, was so brutal the woman was left with bite marks and bruises.

“It Was the Store of Stores”: The Importance of Miami’s Burdines Flagship

By Travis CohenJanuary 8, 2018

Few stores have played as big a role in the history of Miami as the Macy’s in downtown, which the company announced would close permanently in the near future. Before it was a Macy’s, though, the building bore the name Burdines, and it was the flagship for Florida’s first family of retail.

The Dolphins Need to Take a Quarterback High in the NFL Draft

By Ryan YousefiJanuary 8, 2018

You read the headline, so let’s cut the crap and get to the point: The Miami Dolphins need to use a high draft pick on a quarterback in this April’s NFL Draft. Yes, the team needs to replace Ryan Tannehill.

Five Reasons South Florida’s Pro-Trump Private-Prison Company Is Evil

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 7, 2018

You shouldn’t be able to turn a profit from imprisoning people. That seems obvious. The basic goal of the American criminal-justice system should be to eradicate crime — but multibillion-dollar private-prison systems can’t earn big profits if there’s no crime.

Ex-Miami Gardens Police Chief Groped, Sexually Harassed One of His Cops, Lawsuit Says

By Jerry IannelliJanuary 5, 2018

Antonio Brooklen was sworn in as police chief in Miami Gardens — one of the poorest and most crime-plauged areas of Miami-Dade County — in November 2015. The previous chief had been arrested in a prostitution sting. Less than a year later, Brooklen quit. While he says he left to…

<i>War Dogs</i> Smuggler Efraim Diveroli Sues Memoir Co-Author

War Dogs Smuggler Efraim Diveroli Sues Memoir Co-Author

By Brittany ShammasJanuary 5, 2018

Late last year, the Miami Beach stoner whose exploits in arms dealing became the basis of War Dogs, agreed to dismiss his lawsuit against Warner Bros., in which he’d claimed the company stole parts of his memoir and falsely marketed the movie as a true story.

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