On June 28, Chloe Arenas woke up before the sun to pick up her mother and grandmother from an early morning flight. But the 21-year-old University of Central Florida student never reached the airport. Soon after worried friends and family called police, her car was found submerged in a retention…
In a few hours, a delegation from Havana will raise a red-white-and-blue flag that hasn’t officially flown in Washington for more than five decades. The Cuban standard will rise above the nation’s embassy on NW 16th Street in D.C., symbolically marking a change that became official at the stroke of…
Last September, Angelica Sweeting had just picked up her 4-year-old daughter from school when the little girl declared from the back seat: “Mommy, I hate my hair. I want it long and blonde like Barbie and Elsa.” The 27-year-old mother of two panicked. Sweeting and her husband Jason reminded Sophia…
On May 28, 2013, 44-year-old Anthony Lee — a drag queen who went by South Beach Wanda — went to his friend Tiffany McKinney’s house in East Tampa. He heard she was sick and came over to make her dinner. When someone knocked on the door, Lee answered it. McKinney…
So, that just happened. The City of Miami and a group headed by David Beckham have agreed in principle on a proposed plan to build a privately financed MLS stadium next to Marlins Park. Miami and Bechham’s group received the OK after architects determined there would be no need to…
Shots rang out late Thursday afternoon in Homestead. Officer Anthony Green was believed to be responding to a 911 call about a man with a gun hanging from his belt. Through the passenger window in his patrol car, Green made contact with Edward Foster, a 35-year-old father of six. There…
This past March, tens of thousands of fans watched wide, sexy electric racecars zoom down Biscayne Boulevard as part of the first ever Formula E (for electric) racing series. The race marked the first time in decades — since the old Miami Grand Prix — that professional car racing had…
In 1999, two Florida tweens made headlines when they shot and killed their father’s 29-year-old girlfriend, Sonya Speights, with their father’s 9mm semi-automatic as she worked on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle in their home just outside Cocoa Beach. Thirteen-year-old Catherine Fairchild Jones fired the first shot into Speight’s torso and…
Miami is a sweaty city. Residents stick to their leather car seats. They turn back home if they forget to roll on deodorant. The probability of pit stains determines whether anyone wears sleeves that day. Miamians tackle their secreting fluids from just about every orifice: boob sweat, crotch sweat, under-the-knee…
Eber Vasquez was killed while riding his bicycle in April of this year. Walter Reyes was killed while riding in January. Aaron Cohen was killed in February 2012, Christophe Le Canne in 2010. But in addition to those deaths, of course, are hundreds of unreported crashes between cars and bicycles…
Last year, we answered a pressing social media question in South Florida: Namely, who was behind the 50 most followed Miami Twitter accounts. The result was a surprising list full of celebrities, athletes, politicians, media outlets, a few social media superstars, and even a good showing of people over 40. When…
Juan Mullerat argues that Calle Ocho is Miami’s most historic street, but sometime between now and the 1960s it was transformed into a three-lane highway to absorb the brunt of the city’s growing east-west commuters. “I’m driving down it down and I don’t see anybody walking, just cars,” Mullerat tells…
Think oil and gas drilling and nuclear power plants are only way to power South Florida’s economy? Think again. A group of Stanford scholars say they’ve proven that it is “technically and economically feasible” to run Florida’s economy 100 percent on renewable energy. And they’ve already done all the hard work…
Yesterday, Bryan Aneiros was in the midst of a Kendall crime spree. He was going car to car in the area of SW 113 Avenue and 43 Lane and taking items out of unlocked cars. At about 3 a.m. a Good Samaritan spotted him and called 911 to report the seeming…
Forbes just released its list of the 50 most valuable sports franchises across the globe, and for the first time Miami is home to two of them. The Miami Dolphins are virtually shoe-ins just by virtue of being a longstanding NFL team, but the Miami Heat rocketed onto the list…
Donald Trump is none-to-popular with Hispanics voters right now thanks to his comments about Mexican immigrants. So much so that Cuban-American Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo is now widely theorizing in interviews with Spanish-language media that Trump may actually be a secret Democratic plant working to tarnish the reputation of the…
Bye bye, Britto! One consequence of the renovations to the Miami Dolphins’ Sun Life Stadium that hadn’t previously occurred to us is that the Romero Britto murals that were painted on the stadium’s signature spring-shaped walking ramps would be no more. Dolphins CEO Tom Garfinkel tweeted out photos of workers…
After numerous violent incidents involving police were recorded by citizens and made public in recent months, support grew around the country for police to be outfitted with body cameras. But how footage from those cameras should be diffused to the public has proven a tricky issue with few easy answers…
Judd Apatow’s newest comedy ‘Trainwreck’ — starring Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, and LeBron James — hits theaters this Friday. You should not go see it. Nobody you know should go see it. It’s not what it seems. I will explain. LeBron is getting a lot of positive feedback from critics…
Fifty years of bloody conflict in Colombia — thousands of deaths from firefights, sniper attacks, bombings, assassinations, and mass executions — and it all comes down to this: a group of government negotiators and rebel leaders sitting around a big table, talking about land reform and crop subsidies and what…
Will Allen played cornerback for the Dolphins for six of his 11 years in the NFL, but he’s now facing a much longer time behind bars. An indictment issues last week by the by the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts charged Allen with 23 felony charges that could see him spend decades…
While Donald Trump makes many Democrats want to simply jump, many are jumping for joy at the perceived damage the demagogue is doing to the Republican brand. On the flip side, GOP Chair Reince Priebus is actively trying to get Trump to tone it down for the sake of his party…
