Janet Yarbrough-Moody says she isn’t chasing a lawsuit. But she does have a whopper of a story about Burger King involving an ice-cream sundae and a metal screw — and she’s furious that the Miami-based corporation isn’t taking the allegations seriously. “It’s like they don’t even care,” she says. “I…
Every once in a while — even in Miami — a story will emerge to restore your faith in humanity. This is one of those stories, and it all started in a place that’s hardly been a well of good feelings lately: American Airlines Arena, home of the floundering, injury-wracked…
If you work for a small or mid-sized business in Florida, well, you’re boss probably has a good outlook on business right now. Just be thankful that you have a job, because according to a new PNC survey, those business owners aren’t particularly looking to hire anyone new in the…
When a Twitter-storm erupted two weeks ago around Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart and a series of messages seemingly between him and a pair of gambling experts, two central questions quickly emerged: Were the messages legit? And did they point to anything darker than Costart putting a few bucks on college…
That room above that’s forgone traditional paint and wallpaper for LED lighting? It’s not the set for the next Daft Punk video. It’s the foyer (dubbed the “Digital Cave”) to one of the penthouses at the Bentley Bay South tower in South Beach. If you have $18.9 million lying around…
Annette Taddeo seemingly has all the elements of a successful Miami political candidate: A compelling immigrant narrative, a self-made business success tale, a charismatic presence fluent in Spanish and English. Yet Taddeo has so far come up short in bids for U.S. Congress, the Miami-Dade County Commission and last year…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and we’re hear every Friday to share the weirdness with you. We warn you however that this week’s batch of stories is mostly depraved. We have a blow job entrepreneur who tried to get out of arrest by offering to…
Dwyane Wade seems have taken the news that the Heat and Cavs split their regular season series much too literally. Wade entered last night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers already battling a stomach bug, so the last thing he needed was for a wet Quicken Loans Arena floor to surprise…
Miami is a town full of bad credit and bad cops, but rarely do they convene is such a direct way. Rafael Duran, 43, of the Miami-Dade Police Department, was indicted today on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and other wire fraud offenses. The officer had partnered with a credit…
Just when it seemed like Florida was ready to take a slight, if not technical, step forward, it somehow ended up ready to take one giant Indiana-style step backwards. Last month, the Florida House passed a bill that would overhaul the state’s adoption and foster care laws, but that bill…
We’ll just cut to the chase. We know local fans are “go big or go home” types. The Miami Hurricanes Men’s Basketball teams trip to the National Invitational Tournament (the Independent Spirit Awards to the NCAA Tourney’s Oscars; the middle school spring luau to the NCAA’s Senior Prom) hasn’t exactly…
In just the latest example of abuse in Florida’s prison system, two current and one former Department of Corrections employees were arrested today on charges of conspiracy to commit capitol murder. Besides wearing the badge of the DOC, the three men also wore the white hoods of white terrorist organization…
On Tuesday night Steve Berke, the Miami Beach filmmaker and mayoral candidate, received a horrifying phone call. His girlfriend was on the line, and in a frantic voice said she had just encountered an intruder in their Miami Beach home, holding Berke’s laptop in the couple’s bedroom. Berke’s girlfriend relayed…
As Jeb Bush has learned on the turn of April Fool’s Day, it’s never too early in a presidential campaign to have a rough week. With Bush backpedalling on his support for Indiana’s hotly contested gay discrimination law and rival Ted Cruz riding a surge off his official announcement, Jeb’s…
Lil Wayne is putting his Miami Beach mansion on the market. The move comes just weeks after the home was the center of a media frenzy spurred by what turned out to be a fake 911 call claiming people had been shot in the home. Turns out it was a…
Seven and a half years after the murder of NFL star and former Miami Hurricane Sean Taylor, justice is almost complete. Charles Wardlow, now just 25, plead guilty to his part in the shocking death today and was immediately sentenced to 30 years in jail. He is the fourth member of…
Miami has the 7th worst traffic of any major metro area in America according to a new analysis from the makers of TomTom GPS. That’s not exactly big news. Everyone knows we’re plagued by bad traffic here, and we were ranked in the same 7th place position on last year’s…
Yesterday, a 15-year-old football player at Miami Killian Senior High wound up in the hospital after being stabbed in the school’s cafeteria. The suspect: a 17-year-old female classmate. The victim is recovering from surgery to repair a pierced lung and artery Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and is in stable condition, while…
Coral Gables residents have been fighting the city tooth and nail for months to clean up and reopen Merrie Christmas Park, a small green space contaminated with everything from arsenic to cadmium. Amid legal threats, the city caved in October and — with the help of an anonymous donation — agreed…
It’s time to meet your 2015 Miami Marlins, Miami. Take a walk around, get a good look at everything, because there have been some home improvements. Early reviews of the remodeling have been overwhelmingly positive, but being a Marlins fan is like being one of Derrick Rose’s knees; one minute you might…
In the 1950s, the only way for Beatrice Miller to get home from her after-school job picking peppers at her father’s farm was to cut through the cemetery — when it was getting dark. For the teenage girl, few things were more frightening. “I ran so fast my feet never…
Former Mayor Lakes Mayor Mike Pizzi is about to pull a Michelle Spence-Jones. Like, the former City of Miami Commissioner, the ex-mayor was removed from office after being hit with corruption charges, beat the charges, and has now won a favorable ruling in a lawsuit to return to his seat. …
