When you’re currently running for President and stuck in fourth place in your own home state, is it a good idea to piss off all the students and alumni of one of that state’s biggest schools? Probably not, but Marco Rubio pressed his lucky anyway. Rubio was on KNXO 1460’s The…
“Although some may consider this to be humorous or insignificant, the FIUPD takes these reports seriously and continues to investigate the matter,” a rep for the Florida International University Police Department tells the school’s student media. The incident that is neither humorous or insignificant is the fact that a suspected…
South Florida sports fans have experienced some of the highest highs and the lowest lows: the best season in NFL history and one of the worst, a baseball team that has won two World Series and finds new and almost comical ways to miss the playoffs every other season, a…
The only good news for Jeb Bush this morning is that the calendar still reads “September.” That means the Iowa caucuses are a healthy five months away. Which is important, because right now Jeb is seriously tanking among early state GOP voters. We’re talking Philadelphia 76ers looking for a number…
Tears silently stream down Maria Aguilar’s face as she listens to a vivid description of her daily torment. Sitting at a long wooden table inside an 11th-floor courtroom in Miami’s federal courthouse, the short woman with curly hair tied up in a bun holds hands with three other women while…
Nine months after gay marriage became legal in Florida, the state’s marriage license certificates have finally caught up. Instead of listing spaces for a husband and wife, the forms now just say spouse. Naturally, divorce paperwork will also be updated. According to The Buzz, clerks of court offices received the…
Exact details on what exactly David Beckham plans to do in Miami with his MLS team are still hard to come by, but pretty much everyone expects it to be big. So it’s not exactly a surprise that the British media is gossiping about the idea of the country’s former…
Between making billions with Amazon, experimenting with home drone delivery and buying a little publication called the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos also has been quietly pumping money into a secretive company aimed at blasting paying customers and scientists into space. Tomorrow, the Miami Palmetto Senior High School graduate is set…
In June 2014, Colin Foord and his assistants, with hammer and chisels in hand, dove to the bottom of the PortMiami shipping channel. Their mission: to rescue 500 native corals threatened by the Army Corps of Engineer’s massive dredging project to deepen the port. Foord also had a bigger mission…
Given its private and non-religious nature and its location in cosmopolitan Miami, one might expect the University of Miami to be a leader in accommodating LGBT students …at least in the South. Turns out that’s not the case. Not even close. They’re not even one of the best schools for…
Perhaps no one in the history of Miami-Dade County has faced more repercussions for telling someone to go fuck themselves then circuit Judge Jacqueline Schwartz. The Supreme Court of Florida didn’t appreciate the judge’s potty mouth, and has fined her $10,000 and suspended her for 40 days for the incident…
Just over a year after Pinecrest native and freelance journalist Steven Sotloff was brutally executed by ISIS, a new garden is opening in his honor. Tomorrow evening, in a ceremony open to the public, the Steven Sotloff Memorial Garden will be commemorated inside the larger Pinecrest Gardens on Red Road…
Work doesn’t matter today. Every second that passes is just one less moment standing between you and an actual, real-life NFL Sunday. It’s been more than seven long, hard months since we last saw the Patriots and Seahawks play in Super Bowl XLIX; but we made it, and now it’s…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week: You can now bring your gun to FSU’s football stadium, which, as a Hurricanes fan, terrifies me. A man named King got busted for having himself his way…
It’s no secret that virtually everyone in this town comes from somewhere else. But just where do we hail from and in what proportions? New migration data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows where people were coming from when they moved to the Miami area between 2009 and 2013. As…
For women working at the Moreno Farms packing plant in remote Hendry County, a coveted job working indoors in air conditioning sorting vegetables turned into a living nightmare. The two brothers who ran the place — Miami-raised Oscar and Omar Moreno — and their foreman, Javier Garcia, systemically harassed and…
Miami Beach really, really, really like’s rich people, we can assure you of that. The city is basically a playground for them, but existing residents are just a bit tired of super-rich people coming in, buying up historic homes, knocking them down, and then building giant mega-mansions that are out…
Jeb Bush may be behind Trump in the polls, but one things he’s certainly leading in is nabbing endorsements in Florida. Even fellow Floridian Marco Rubio can’t touch Bush in that respect. In fact, today Bush announced a new bunch of endorsements that seem almost designed to embarrass Rubio. Remember…
More Cubans have attempted to reach Florida this year than last year, new numbers from the Coast Guard show. That, of course, has lead to speculation that the new migration has been sparked by Obama’s diplomatic thaw with Havana, as Cubans worry that the wet-foot, dry-foot policy might be on…
The idea of city seals dates back to ancient times. They’re older than Jesus, and back in the day they served as the most high-tech way for a city to officiate a document. Sure, they still carry some legal significance today depending on the specific laws of a municipality, but…
Animal rights activists have been pushing Miami Seaquarium for two decades to release Lolita, a now 50-year-old orca held in the smallest tank in the country. Protestors have marched on the Virginia Key park and held press conferences, but now a 29-year-old New Zealander has a different idea of how…
Plans to build the largest mall in America in the western reaches of Miami-Dade are moving on full speed ahead with little impediment, and today we’ve got out look at what exactly the layout of the mall will look like. South Florida Business Journal reporter Brian Bendall got a hold…
