The call came to Miami-Dade Police just before 2 a.m. last night: A robber with a bandana pulled over his face and a silver handgun had just hit a Walgreens in South Dade and sped off in a white SUV. Minutes later, after a high-speed chase down Dixie Highway, police…
Yes, Florida does have bears — black bears, the kind that rarely bother humans other than rifling through trash cans for food. That’s reason enough, apparently, for the state of Florida to authorize a new bear hunt in the state, with permits already issues for hundreds of hunters to track…
Gulliver Prep’s head baseball coach is out of a job and facing possible investigation by law enforcement officers after sending a sexually explicit video to his players. Javier Rodriguez, was a star at at Gulliver when attended as a child and went on to be a star for the University…
Working a minimum wage job in Florida can now no longer even afford you two hours worth of curbside parking in South Beach anymore. Starting on Monday, Miami Beach hiked parking prices for surface lots and curb side parking spaces across the city, but not all hikes were equal. The biggest…
After years of roller coaster speculation and hand-wringing, it’s now all but certain that David Beckham’s long-lost professional soccer franchise will play in a revamped stadium on the site of the former Orange Bowl, across from Marlins Park in Little Havana. But there’s still a problem: How to clear out enough…
If there’s one thing that the South and South Florida can agree on, its that South Florida is definitely not the South. Not culturally anyway. Sure, we may be geographically one of the most southern parts of the United States, but culturally we’re some mix of New York and the…
In recent years, at least four employees at CareerSource South Florida filed complaints with the county about Roderick “Rick” Beasley, the executive director of a public agency that uses $70 million in state and federal funds to find employment for local job seekers. They alleged that Beasley — who earns…
Florida Bay, the body of water between the Everglades and the Keys that was once teeming with wildlife, may be on the verge of collapse. Last week, scientists reported that miles of sea grass have died in the bay in recent months, leaving behind a stinky smell and a cloud…
Florida has one of the most unusual set of laws concerning what it takes to sentence someone to death in the entire nation. Florida also sends more inmates to death row than most other states in the nation. Since the Death Penalty was reinstated in 1976, only Texas, Oklahoma and…
When the NRA says “jump,” Republicans in Florida’s state legislature ask “how high,” and then manage to jump even higher. The state has long been a leader in passing NRA-backed legislation. It’s why we’re known as the “Stand Your Ground” state after all. Florida’s passage of a “shall issue” concealed…
Lamar Odom only played with the Miami Heat for a season, but it was an important one in the history of the team. It was Dwyane Wade’s rookie year, and Odom was a key part of a roster that saw the team transition from an after thought in the league…
Unless you’re a GOP presidential candidate, you’ve probably accepted the facts by now: The global climate is changing. The seas are rising. And at some point, low-lying Miami-Dade County is going to do the whole Atlantis thing. The latest evidence came yesterday, with a new study that found that even…
There’s a fierce battle being waged in Florida over access to one of our state’s greatest resources: the sun. With the effects of climate change ever more obvious, solar is a scorching hot policy topic, and we’re seeing a lot of activity around two competing solar ballot initiatives in Florida…
Eugene Ramirez is a star graduate of Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, the elite Miami high school that claims Fidel Castro among its alumni. Ramirez is also openly gay. That fact apparently didn’t bother the school when it asked Ramirez — a TV journalist who moved to Tampa earlier this year…
The future of David Beckham’s Major League Soccer team in Miami has been stuck on one question since it was announced in February 2014: Where are they going to play. While the most likely scenario at the moment seems to be a new stadium new Marlins Park, that question remain…
The Florida Gators turnaround from last year’s mediocrity to this year’s unbeaten streak of six games seemed almost too good to be true …and it might actually have been. Yesterday the school announced that its star freshman quarterback Will Grier had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and could face…
Miami will be threatened by rising sea levels over the next few centuries. On that there’s pretty much scientific consensus. The only question is exactly how much. Well, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America predicts that our…
For four years, ever since New Times first reported that corporate behemoth Walmart planned to build a store in Miami’s burgeoning Midtown district, residents and protesters have vehemently opposed the big box store. Since then the retailer has all but assured a legal victory, but concerned citizens haven’t given up. The…
On a mild evening in early August, John Pate and Sally Elizabeth Evans’ Volkswagen Passat climbs the hills outside the lush Valle Arriba golf club in Caracas. The 70-year-old Pate, a tall, fair-skinned lawyer with red hair, glasses, and a soft face, had just finished his usual Sunday dinner at…
Guns rights groups in Florida are desperately trying to give students the right to have a gun on the state’s college campuses despite polling indicate that just about everyone else thinks thats just a horrible idea. One strange example of why that might not be such a hot idea played…
Ask a random person to name a few things they identify Florida and you’ll probably get answers like beaches, old people and orange juice. Orange juice is after all our official state beverage and oranges decorate our default license plates, but it turns out that the state’s OJ industry is…
A red BWM convertible with the top down rolled alongside a yellow taxi cab on Pine Tree Drive early this morning, past the million-dollar Miami Beach mansions and the gnarled old trees that give the road its name. Suddenly, gunfire raked the side of the taxi as the convertible squealed…
