This afternoon, there’s going to be a big press conference about a professional soccer team officially coming to Miami. But David Beckham won’t be there, and neither will Marcelo Claure, his billionaire Bolivian business partner. In fact, the announcement has nothing to do with Miami’s long-percolating MLS team. Instead, South…
Rep. Ron DeSantis has only been up in elected office for two and a half years, but the Sophomore congressmen from Jacksonville has decided he’s ready for the next step up. Today, DeSantis announced his campaign for the Senate seat soon to be vacated by Marco Rubio, and becomes the…
A Key Largo man is dead after crashing his boat and being impaled on the branches of mangrove trees this morning in the Florida Keys. The incident happened at about 4:40 a .m near the entrance of Jewfish Creek. According to The Florida Keys Keynoter, Steven Douglas Reynolds, 64, was driving his…
Everyday is fight day in Miami-Dade Schools, and no one is paying $100 on pay-per-view to watch them. According to data obtained by Local 10, the top 8 of the 10 schools with the most reported fights during the 2013-2014 school year were all right here in Miami-Dade School System. …
Every year, we hear the same complaint: Why didn’t so-and-so win Best Of? But with so many great people and places around Miami, it’s hard to get to them all. That’s why we invite you, our readers, to chime in with your thoughts on some of the best restaurants, bars,…
Legendary Florida environmentalist Nathaniel Reed has added his voice to the chorus of disapproval for Florida’s legislature, saying their failure to enact key legislation — as the House quit early over a Medicaid funding fight — has made the state “the laughing stock of the country.” Among the many bills…
UM fans should have been loving the NFL Draft last weekend. After all, seven Canes were selected, including five in the first three-rounds alone. But somehow the UM teams stocked with all that pro talent managed to go just 6-7, leaving everyone wondering how it’s possible that Coach Al Golden…
If not for the Spanish-speaking 60-somethings lounging about, the room could pass for the lobby of a Ramada Inn: flat-screen TV set on one wall, nature art adorning another, plush furniture arranged throughout. But it’s no hotel. The newly renovated apartment building in Miami’s Shenandoah neighborhood is actually a publicly…
Basketball isn’t a life or death situation at the end of the day, but it almost was for Heat star Chris Bosh. The big man revealed that he’s “lucky to be alive” after playing through symptoms that turned out to be the result of blood clots in his lungs that…
What to do about Cocowalk? That’s a problem its fifth owners in the past 18 years will have to figure out now. The Coconut Grove shopping mall sold yesterday for $87.5 million. The buyers are lead by Maryland-based Federal Realty Investment Trust, who have an 80 percent stake, and was bought…
Until November 11, 2013, musician Wilfredo Batista lived a pretty normal life. The Puerto Rico native had good credit, and was well-liked by friends and neighbors. But on that Monday a year-and-a-half ago, he learned he had unknowingly stepped foot in the wrong zip code: Miami’s 33138. While filming a…
The SWAT team snakes behind a one-story pink and yellow house an hour before dawn breaks over a silent working-class block in Hallandale Beach. As the heavily armed cops in black military gear pour into the small backyard, Tank, a 15-year-old pit bull, rises from the concrete ground, straining at…
This may be the oddst weave snatching in the storied history of weave snatchings. All the weave snatches on Real Housewives, Bad Girls Club and RuPaul’s Drag Race combined probably don’t even add up to the total bizarreness and monetary value of this. Police believe that four minors, with one…
If the Democratic establishment has it their way, actual Florida Democratic primary voters won’t get much of a choice as to who their nominee is. Rep. Patrick Murphy, a former registered Republican and Florida’s most conservative House Democrat, announced his candidacy for Marco Rubio’s soon-to-be-abandoned Senate seat back in March, and…
On Friday, the Miami Beach Police Department announced that a detective had been suspended for 160 hours for violating department policies on use of force and handling prisoners in custody. The suspension stemmed from a case where Archer had punched a Good Samaritan in the head, but it turns out…
The rivalry between Miami and Tampa’s Cuban American populations isn’t just about who makes the truest Cuban sandwich. The idealogical differences between the two city’s approach to Havana has never been more apparent now that the Obama administration has begun to normalize relations with the county; a divide explored in…
It’s almost graduation time, and the University of Miami has unveiled a surprising commencement speaker. None other than Jimmy Buffett, he of “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise” fame, will be delivering the keynote address at one of six ceremonies this Friday. Of course, it’s easy to cast of Buffett as…
As the Cocaine Cowboys era exploded into a yeyo-fueled crime wave of excess in South Florida and across the nation in the 1980s, Fidel Castro quietly helped Cuban smugglers get the drugs from Colombia to American shores. Why? “For him, drug trafficking was, above all, a weapon of revolutionary…
Miami is a trashy city. That’s not an insult. It’s just a fact. There’s literally trash everywhere. People apparently just love chucking stuff on the side of the roads and only rarely do people bother to pick it up. It’s easy to ignore when you see it everyday and most…
Andrew Mossberg was walking back to his condo in South Beach when he saw a disturbing scene: A muscular man was grappling with a thin woman, punching her and grabbing items from her purse. Naturally, Mossberg assumed it was a mugging in progress and called 911. That’s when the man…
The Miami Hurricanes play in a professional stadium that’s probably twice as big as what fits their needs. David Beckham has a proposed MLS franchise that needs a new, smaller stadium of its own to call home. Its been apparent to some that the best situation may be killing two…
Despite being one of the larger states by population and an important swing state in national election, Florida doesn’t have much of a history of churning out serious Presidential candidates. Senator Bob Graham was believed to be on Al Gore’s VP shortlist in 2000, and then had an ill-fated presidential…
