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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine wants to be governor, but the outlook is bleak.
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.
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,…
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Miamians take pride in being able to shrug off levels of summer heat that border on nuclear radiation. We regularly debate which windshield sun-shades work best to keep our cars from baking while parked outdoors in July. It’s not uncommon to see people jogging in 90-plus degree heat as if…
Since the Miami Dolphins selected wide receiver Jarvis Landry with the 63rd pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, he’s caught 400 passes for just over 4,000 yards and 22 touchdowns. To say he has been a huge part of the Dolphins offense since the moment he stepped onto the field four years ago would be an understatement.
On the morning of Christmas Eve 2014, a home healthcare worker arrived for his shift at the home of an 82-year-old Hallandale Beach woman. But when he entered the condo, he found Florence Wagner dead on her bed.
We are wimps. After all that whining about the hottest year on record, cold weather arrived this morning and everybody went crazy. Iguanas will fall out of trees, the Miami Herald predicted. Plants will die. Tourists will head elsewhere. Well, there is something to this. Yesterday, cold rain turned to snow…
Robert DiCrisci, CEO of the Miami-based pharmaceutical startup NextSource Biotechnology, was roundly criticized all over the world last week after the Wall Street Journal reported that NextSource had bought a 40-year-old brain-cancer drug and raised its maximum price to $768 per pill.
The highlight of the Museum of Ice Cream — the absurdly popular, made-for-Instagram installation that opened last month in Miami Beach — is the pool filled waist-deep with millions of rainbow-colored plastic sprinkles. It’s the stuff of social media dreams. But the sprinkles are turning into a real-life problem for the Beach, where city staff have gone as far as fining the organizers for creating an “environmental hazard.”
