Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been fighting all month against claims by former state employees that his administration banned the use of “climate change.” With state workers now upping the ante — including news yesterday one state employee was ordered into a mental health exam for demanding to use the…
For every dream that comes true in Florida, a nightmare is made. Strange things happen here every week, and every Friday we’re here to bring you the strangest. This week we have a man who is either a common burglar or possibly made a very bad decision by trusting Mariah…
“Termites thrive in warm, moist environments,” says Doug Webb, a Terminex technical specialist, in a statement touting the company’s rankings of America’s most termite infected cities. From that alone you should be able to determine that Miami made the list, and indeed we did at number six. Terminix released its rankings…
File this under things we all sort of knew, but now have academic research to back it up. A recently published study by a research at the University of Miami has confirmed that staying friends with your ex-partner on Facebook can make a breakup that much harder, especially for those…
Since December, Manhattanites and Manhattanites alone have been able to enjoy a one-hour delivery service from online retail giants Amazon. Now, Miami (along with Baltimore) will be the second city to get to try the service. Amazon Prime Now delivery has been launched in select Miami zip codes effective immediately. …
Last weekend, a 52-year-old woman was arrested at Miami International Airport under bizarre circumstances. In videos captured by fellow passengers on her Nicaragua-to-Miami flight, Karen Halnon yelled loudly about the U.S. “declaring war” on Venezuela and about her support for Hugo Chavez. She also lit up a cigarette mid-flight. A…
For the past five years, Weston-based tennis pro Wayne Odesnik has been as well known for his ties to illegal drugs as for his backhand. In 2010, Odesnik was banned for two years after getting caught with human growth hormone in Australia. Then, New Times’ 2013 investigation into the Biogenesis scandal…
MLB Network recently asked Major League Baseball fans to answer a deceptively simple question: Who is the face of MLB? The fan vote resulted in a victory for … San Francisco catcher Buster Posey? That’s unfortunate, because no matter the official results, any sane baseball fan knows that Giancarlo…
If a Miamian finds themselves in the middle of Wyoming, America’s least populace state, its probably for very odd reasons. Edelberto Herrera does not disprove this hunch. The 55-year-old Miami resident was stopped recently for speeding while traveling through Interstate 80 in the state, and investigates soon discovered that he 75…
The vast income inequality in Miami is no secret. Barring traffic, you can be driving around and surrounded by mansions with well manicured, fenced in lawns one moment and then surrounded by slums ten minutes later. Homeless people sleep on sidewalks blocks from glittering luxury condo towers designed by some…
Governor Rick Scott ran his first campaign as a political outsider, but apparently now he’s dreaming of becoming a Beltway insider. Scott is reportedly thinking of mounting a run for Senate, at least according to a vague report from The Tampa Bay Times. Though not in 2016 should Marco Rubio…
News of popular Univision host Rodner Figueroa being sacked after comparing First Lady Michelle Obama’s appearance to that of the cast of the Planet of the Apes shook Latin media last week, but it’s only now making its way through the mainstream English-language media. The topic became hot on Monday’s edition…
Ivan Gomez spent years in the U.S. Army, including a tour overseas during the Yugoslavia conflict in the early ’90s. Today he suffers from type 2 diabetes and other physical and mental ailments. To help him cope, he says, he keeps service animals. “My dogs are everything to me,” he…
Jay Jones was on the phone with his girlfriend when her voice was suddenly drowned out by a mechanical roar. The 29-year-old glanced up to find a trio of angry-looking Miami Beach cops atop sputtering ATVs. “I gotta go,” Jones told his girlfriend. “I’ll call you right back.” Not on…
Though many residents remain skeptical, the Miami-Dade County Commission overwhelming welcomed the plan to build North America’s largest mall complex in Northeast Miami-Dade. The commission took its first official vote on a land deal at today’s meeting, and approved in a 10-2 vote. Triple Five, the developers behind the plan…
A bill that would ban transgender people from using their preferred public bathrooms has now made its way through its second committee, but not without some changes. The bill has been amended to make an exception for some transgender people who have legally changed their gender on government documentation. In…
The Florida Democratic party suffers from a noticeably weakened bench ready to run for higher officer when compared to its Republican counterpart. So it’s interesting news that two of the state’s best known — though perhaps most divisive — Democrats both announced that they will not run for Senate in…
Miami-Dade Schools have been rocked by a number of troubling incidents involving sex and abuse this week, and its only Tuesday morning. First came news that a Kindergarten teacher dug his nails into a student because he wanted to see her cry. Then came the arrest of a high school…
As a top commander in El Salvador during that country’s brutal civil war, Carlos Vides presided over tens of thousands of civilian murders and systemic torturing. For decades Vides has lived with his wife in a comfortable home in Palm Coast, but now the former strongman is on the brink of…
In that now seemingly brief time during which LeBron James called Miami home, local fans were scrutinized endlessly. People said we didn’t deserve the Heat’s big three. Charles Barkley was constantly dogging us. People apparently noticed anytime a seat in the arena wasn’t full for the entire duration of the…
A million thoughts raced through Randy Lanier’s head as he cast a fishing line into the azure waters off Antigua, 1,300 miles from South Florida. He had a family back in Davie — a wife, an 8-year-old daughter, and a newborn son. Then he pondered auto racing. He’d been a…
On March 7, off a dirt road 40 miles west of Miami, swamp buggies careened into the thicket and little kids shimmied up a 40-foot wooden pole trying to grab the $50 bill stapled to the top. At a booth, Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee tribe member with a long black…
