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…
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Miami Beach police responded to a tense scene last night at 7801 Abbott Ave. in Miami Beach. After responding to a domestic disturbance report, police noticed that the place was ablaze. A mattress had been set on fire in a hallway. During their investigation the suspect, 22-year-old Edwin Innis, was…
A video posted on YouTube this weekend shows what appears to be a Florida Highway Patrol officer tasering an elderly man with his hands up. The video, reportedly filmed on the way to Key West, shows two angry patrolmen pulling an unidentified old man from his minivan during a traffic…
Paul Raifaizen probably thought he’d hit the corruption jackpot when he found a crooked Miami-Dade County bureaucrat named Jesus “Jay” Pons, who promised to overpay his company for work it never did. However, Pons’ scheme grew so outrageous that it toppled, ensnaring everyone involved in legal trouble. Oh, and just…
Even in a city where deadly hit-and-runs are a weekly occurrence, a vehicular homicide this weekend was particularly brutal. Early Sunday morning, 39-year-old Takesha Shawanna Hayes — who used a motorized wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis — was hit by a car as she rolled through a Little Haiti intersection…
In a tradition documented in the very first line of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” (Holly came from Miami, F-L-A), for years Miami’s creative and restless young would head to New York. In return, Miami would get New York’s retirees. This population transaction worked fine for decades, but…
Living in Miami in 2015 and harboring any doubts about sea level rise is roughly equivalent to being a volcano truther in Pompeii circa 79 AD. The catastrophe is happening. The only question is just how quickly climate change will sink parts of South Florida. The answer, according to new…
What else do you expect from a state that isn’t sure if gay sex meets the legal definition of sex and let beastiality remain technically legal until 2011? It’s been technically illegal in Florida since the late 1800s for unrelated and unmarried man and woman to cohabitate. In fact, it’s…
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Back in 2013, Jeffrey A. Benjamin came in second place to Tomas Regalado in Miami’s mayoral race with 10 percent of the vote. You may remember that as the year when Regalado’s only real competition, Francis Suarez, abruptly dropped out of the race, leaving Regalado practically unchallenged. Still, Benjamin was…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest…
Don’t take it from us. Listen to the eternal words of the Flaming Lips on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: “Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?” Dark, yes. But not necessarily depressing! Because for now, you still have plenty time to live. Live, dammit! That means…
Good news never seems to last long for the Miami Heat these days. Just hours after celebrating the news that the team had landed its best point guard since the heyday of Tim Hardaway, fans learned that superstar Chris Bosh had been hospitalized for some very serious tests. Doctors in…
In response to an all too regular string of accidents involving drunk drivers and bicyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway, police will set up a DUI sobriety checkpoint on the bridge to Key Biscayne tonight. The Miami Police and Miami-Dade Police departments will join forces for the checkpoint. See also: Another…
It’s really not fair that two travel sites have decided to release their awards for best beaches on this, a week of cold and misery across the nation. Here in Miami we can’t even use our own beaches right now. (We mean, there’s probably some weird European tourists out there…
Apparently, Pat Riley thinks Goran Dragic is the man to turn this Heat season around. According to numerous reports, the Miami Heat has traded Shawne Williams, Justin Hamilton, Danny Granger, and two first-round picks to the Phoenix Suns for the Slovenian star. Norris Cole was shipped to New Orleans in…
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Remember when you were a kid and your parents drilled it into you that you weren’t supposed to take candy from strangers? And for most of us strangers never actually offered us candy, nor did we hear about it happening to any of our friends. However, turns out that it…
