North Miami Woman’s Home “Under Attack” From Raw Sewage Explosions
For more than a year, Gwendolyn West’s canal-front home in North Miami has been, in the words of her attorney, “literally under attack” by gushing rivers of raw sewage.
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The Five Worst Ideas From Florida Politicians in 2017
The Florida legislature is run by cold, dead-eyed lunatics, lecherous men, and vampires without the parts of their brains that let them feel empathy. Tallahassee is such a horrid place that it’s barely even news when someone proposes letting people openly carry shotguns while riding mountain bikes, or putting a…
Rubio’s Big Tax “Win” Today Gives Poor, Single Parents an Extra $75 Total
Local snail-person and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio surfaced yesterday and briefly set Washington, D.C., ablaze by saying he wouldn’t vote for the much-maligned Republican tax-cut package unless it did more for working families.
Florida International University Suspends All Greek Life Amid Nude-Photo Scandal
Earlier this year, a Florida International University student broke news that FIU’s Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members were secretly joking about rape and sending nude photographs stolen from women to one another on secret group chats. In October, a school spokesperson confirmed that the university had launched an investigation into the…
Woman Says Miami Cop Berated Her With F-Bombs in Front of 10-Year-Old Son
Julie Sheppard says she was driving her 10-year-old stepson home from school in Coconut Grove last week when she heard someone slap the back of her car. In her rear-view mirror, she saw a Miami Police officer, so she pulled over and rolled down her window. The first thing he said shocked her.
More Than 40 Percent of Miami Adults Now Forced to Live With Roommates
Miami TV montages always contain the same few shots: people sunning themselves on South Beach, clubgoers waving their arms in the air, old Cuban men in newsboy hats drinking cortaditos, and maybe a slow-motion shot of a crawling Rolls-Royce or some drone footage of an alligator.
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City of Miami Unanimously Votes to Get Rid of Red-Light Cameras
American Traffic Solutions (ATS) certainly seems to be one of the most hated companies in America. The Arizona-based firm runs red-light-camera ticketing services for hundreds of cities and counties across the nation. If you’ve ever been fined $150 after a camera caught you driving through an intersection, you can probably blame that company.
Miami’s Ten Biggest News Stories of 2017
In a year where a semi-Florida Man took the White House and preceded to bring lasting and great shame to the state where he spends half his year hacking and gold balls and schmoozing random Mar-a-Lago members, it was another local political son who dominated Miami headlines for his awful…
Miami Judge Threatens Major Mortgage Company Lawyers With Criminal Charges for Hiding Documents
Ditech, one of America’s largest home-loan companies, achieved fame in the 1990s with TV commercials that showed its competitors complaining they had “lost another loan to Ditech.” The company largely vanished during the 2008 housing crisis but has since rebounded and remains one of the largest mortgage service firms in America. It brings in revenues in excess of $1 billion per year and handles thousands of home-foreclosure cases annually.
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Will Marco Rubio Vote to Cut Millionaires’ Taxes After GOP Gives Him a Big Ol’ Middle Finger? UPDATED
Sen. Marco Rubio has gleefully pushed the GOP tax bill even though analysts say it will do nothing for Miami’s middle and working classes while giving huge tax breaks to millionaires in Brickell. But Rubio has tried to put some gloss on that plutocrat’s dream package by insisting that his colleagues slightly increase the corporate tax to pay for tax breaks for 9 million low-income families with children.
Florida Family Finds Hidden Camera in Carnival Cruise Ship Cabin
In the dystopian world also known as “2017,” there are a lot of things to be afraid of. Election meddling. Peter Thiel. Toilet iguanas. But among the scariest developments is the steady technological improvement of hidden spy cameras.
Miami Man in Jail for Weed Wins $730K After Losing Kidney
Pascual Diaz-Plasencia was arrested on misdemeanor drug possession charges June 29, 2012, after police caught him with less than 20 grams of marijuana. Diaz-Plasencia had recently undergone a kidney transplant and had to take a set of pills twice daily to ensure his body didn’t reject the organ.
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Five Reasons Being a Miami Marlins Fan Totally Sucks
Being a Miami Marlins fan sucks. It sucks bad. It’s legitimately painful and likely terrible for your health. This week, however, has especially sucked to root for the hometown baseball team.
Coconut Grove Residents Demand That City Crack Down on Wave of Massive Modern Houses
Miami’s zoning code states new homes built in Coconut Grove can have square footages up to 80 percent of the lot size, allowing for the largest homes of any municipality in Miami-Dade. Now hundreds of Grove residents have signed a petition demanding that new developments be no larger than 50 percent of lots.
Florida Men Who Filmed Themselves Abusing Sharks Finally Charged With Crimes
This past July, a group of young Florida bros filmed themselves dragging a live shark behind a boat until the poor thing disintegrated into a bloody pulp. The crew of numbskulls then sent the clip to Miami’s infamous shark hunter, Mark “the Shark” Quartiano, because they thought the famed fisherman would find the footage entertaining.
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FPL Gets to Charge Customers $130 Million to Clean Up Its Environmental Damage
Mention the cooling canals at Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station around a local environmentalist, and you’ll likely get to watch that activist’s face turn all shades of red and purple. Florida Power & Light owns the plant in South Miami-Dade, and evidence strongly suggests FPL has known for decades that the plant’s canals were leaking saltwater into the Biscayne Aquifer, Miami’s largest source of drinking water.
Miami New Times‘ Ten Most-Read Sports Stories of 2017
All in all, 2017 was not a glorious sports year in South Florida. The Marlins and Panthers were awful, the Heat needed a second-half surge to go from dreadful to mediocre, and the less said about this season’s Dolphins squad the better. The only good news comes from Coral Gables,…
White North Miami Cop Sues for Race Discrimination After Black Officers Promoted
The North Miami Police Department’s interim chief, Larry Juriga, claimed in a lawsuit two years ago that the police department “discriminated” against him for being a “white redneck.” As ridiculous as that claim might be, it seems another NMPD officer (and reported friend of Juriga’s) is so incensed about racial diversity…
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Florida Airboat Accidents Have Killed Seven and Injured Dozens in Recent Years
Deep in the Everglades, just off the Tamiami Trail, a seven-foot-wide propeller perched on an airboat violently slaps the wind. To drown out the deafening sound, Anastacia Dorst cups her hands tightly over her ears. Still, the narrow path of rippling water ahead feels more airport tarmac than wetland. The…
Miami Beach Police Hires New Captain of Detectives Facing Gender-Discrimination Lawsuit in New York
In August, a female police officer with the tiny Muttontown, New York police department sued the village and its police chief because she said she’d faced gender discrimination on the job. Jennifer Lavin’s suit alleged that after she was injured while handcuffing an emotionally disturbed person, Chief Phil Pulaski refused to grant her line-of-duty benefits or light duty and blamed her pregnancy for her pain.
The Ten Weirdest, Worst Things We Saw During Art Basel 2017 (NSFW)
Art Basel teaches you that rich people are exceedingly weird. They’re the people you see walking around San Francisco or Manhattan in Balenciaga shoes, the folks who seem really normal and put together and content to be driving their steel-gray Mercedes sedans from venture-capital pitch to venture-capital pitch.
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Powerful Family of Miami Judge Owns Illegal Frat-House Ring Near UM, Neighbors Say
On Saturday, November 11, 65,000 delirious fans packed Hard Rock Stadium for the University of Miami’s biggest home game in years against the hated Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Bars swelled with orange-and-green-clad crowds, and closer to UM’s campus, raucous house parties erupted. One of the largest bacchanals was at a residential home in the nearby neighborhood of Glenvar Heights, where partiers arrived by the busload.