Today marks exactly three years since George Zimmerman fired the shots that killed Miami Garden teenager Trayvon Martin up in Sanford, Florida. It’s already been a tense week in regarded to the remembrance of the case. The U.S. Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it had closed its investigation and…
Ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft continue to operate successfully across Florida despite the fact they’re technically doing so illegally in many counties. An attempt last year to legalize the services statewide fizzled out in Tallahassee, but two new bills filed in the state senate and house signal that the legislature…
Formula E, the new, all-electric spinoff of the Formula 1 car-racing series, is coming to Miami in a couple of weeks, when the Miami ePrix will take over Biscayne Boulevard. But the series could be here to stay. At today’s city commission meeting, Mayor Tomás Regalado will introduce a resolution…
For more than a half-century, communist Cuba has fought off the offenses of its northern neighbor. From the Bay of Pigs to the embargo to the internet, the island has resisted the influence of the United States. Now Cuba is poised to go on the offensive — by invading your…
TV cameras from around the nation are focused on a green-and-orange-painted appliance store in Allapattah this morning. More specific, they’re broadcasting pictures of the Miami-Dade bus lodged in the front of the business. Just after 6:30 this morning, the bus collided with an SUV and then slammed into the building,…
In many ways, Jeb Bush is sitting pretty. He’s the only major 2016 candidate who has publicly announced he’s actively exploring a presidential run and is busy hauling in cash for his Right to Rise PAC. He’s sitting atop many national polls of GOP contenders, and the media has anointed…
Apparently we are to assume that all minor instances of basic human interaction between Gov. Rick Scott and President Barack Obama are of the utmost importance. So what to make of the fact that this afternoon Scott was on hand to greet Obama before his appearance at Florida International University…
Coral Gables is home of the Miami Hurricanes. It doesn’t, however, play host too often to earthquakes. Still, a rash of small-scale tremors have shaken the area and other neighborhoods in South Miami-Dade over the past week. No one seems to know why…
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President Barack Obama will visit the main campus of Florida International University this afternoon to speak at a town hall meeting about immigration. He’ll sit down with TV news anchor Jose Diaz-Balart, and the event will air on Telemundo at 7 p.m. and on MSNBC at 8 p.m. Exciting stuff…
All Aboard Florida, the private firm planning rail service between Miami and Orlando, has already faced plenty of blowback, including residents worried about noise and traffic delays and accusations of political malfeasance. But there’s also the more basic question of whether the $2.5 billion venture — which includes plans for…
Last week, New Times reported that Miami Police Officer Vincent Miller was being suspended for misusing his Taser. A bystander testified he saw Miller shock a homeless man for no reason. It was later found that the officer never reported the incident. Documents obtained by New Times now provide the…
Pitbull’s “Shake Señora” begins playing. A boxy white robot that looks straight out of some ’60s sci-fi movie starts moving multiple joints to the rhythm. Its single camera-eyed head nods to the beat. “Oh, I love dancing to Pitbull,” it explains. “This is awesome.” This all happens at the 5:42…
The Miami Dolphins have released the most detailed look yet at what exactly all these upgrades to Sun Life Stadium will entail. In addition to things like a roof and new HD lighting, there will also be revamped concourses, new bar and restaurant areas, and in-stadium couches and arm chairs…
Thankfully it only involved paint, but two not-so-bright teens pulled off a school shooting yesterday at Miami Spring Senior High School. Joel Rodriguez and Juan Gil, both 18, were out “to get a student by the name of Mike,” according to the arrest report. So the pair drove by the…
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Lincoln Road is in such a state of content flux that even national chain stores that have sat on the strip for more than a decade can’t keep up. William Sonoma and Pottery Barn, neighboring chain stores in the 1000 block of Lincoln that share a corporate parent company, will…
Joe Garcia, the Cuban American former Democratic congressman who lost in November to newcomer Carlos Curbelo, is not running for office again. Instead he’s joining a bank. Today QueensFort Capital, a Miami-based bank that specializes in large capital foreign investment, announced Garcia was coming on board as senior vice president…
Some Republicans in the state legislature may be ready to legalize medical marijuana (though only if it’s the nonsmokable stuff), but at least one Democrat wants all weed legalized. Sen. Dwight Bullard, a Democrat representing Cutler Bay and current chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, introduced SB 1176 yesterday. The…
Ever since Buju Banton, one of Jamaica’s most talented and controversial reggae singers, was convicted of cocaine trafficking and gun charges in 2011, there have been signs his trial was not on the up-and-up. You may recall he was sentenced to ten years and lingers in federal lockup. That sentence…
For years, Florida police agencies have secretly purchased mysterious devices called Stingrays. Manufactured in Delray Beach and sold for up to $134,000, the machine lets cops track cell phones. And even though Stingrays were bought mostly with anti-terrorism money and pitched as emergency-only options, local court records hint that police…
This is essentially the different side of the same story from earlier this month, when an analysis showed that 65 percent of Miamians are renters. That’s because homeownership in Miami-Dade has plummeted since the recession and foreclosure crisis. Well, now the Census Bureau is out with new information basically pointing…
