With primaries out of the way, tomorrow will be the official start of the general election for Florida’s next governor. It’s also the day that Rick Scott’s former lieutenant governor, Jennifer Carroll, releases her autobiography, When You Get There. Spoiler alert: She’s not very nice to the guv in it…
It’s the tenth anniversary of Allstate Insurance’s “Americas Best Drivers” list, and as usual, South Florida cities find themselves near the bottom. Of the 200 cities ranked, Miami has the 186th “best” drivers, or 15th worst. Meanwhile, Hialeah came in at 189th, or 12th worst. Both cities have fallen further…
Two local residents are recovering after a crocodile bit them early Sunday morning in Coral Gables. And now they’re famous: “This is the first time that we’ve ever had a crocodile bite a human being in the United States,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) spokesman Jorge Pino told…
Upstairs at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, past smiling employees at the front desk and cubicles full of researchers and staffers, lies a secluded room behind a password-protected door. Inside, unmoving taxidermies of bears, snakes, and birds stand next to rows of sterile bones, shells, and antique…
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Nineteen-year-old U’Laun Jamar Volthire is being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center this morning on charges of domestic violence and attempted murder. His mother, 38-year-old Yolanda Ferguson, is at Kendall Regional Medical Center recovering from emergency surgery after she was stabbed multiple times by her son…
Bye-bye, Burger King? One of Miami-Dade’s biggest and perhaps most well-known corporate citizens may be moving to Canada. According to the New York Times, Burger King confirmed yesterday that its pursuing a merger with Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons that would see the fast-food chain moving its corporate headquarters from…
A video that surfaced last Friday on TMZ shows an early-morning brawl outside a nightclub in South Beach. Not all that unusual — except this one involves Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie wide receiver Mike Evans. And the two Miami Beach cops who appear in the frame do little more than…
In the past five years, North Miami has seen the mayor’s seat filled by two politicians who have faced allegations of criminal and unethical behavior. It began with Andre Pierre using taxpayer money to order fake police badges for his staff’s use. Then Pierre was replaced by Lucie Tondreau, who…
As Ferguson, Missouri, has descended into a nightmarish vision of a dystopian police state, few have watched the growing clashes between protesters and authorities with a perspective quite like Sheila McNeil’s. As a young woman in Overtown, McNeil lived through Miami’s own version of Ferguson — the McDuffie riots that…
Apparently there are some people out there who don’t think Attorney General Pam Bondi is doing a good enough job defending Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage, which a federal jude just ruled yesterday was unconstitutional and will be scene in the near future as “an obvious pretext for discrimination.” Well,…
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Tomorrow night, the Miami Central Rockets, the eighth best high school football team in the nation according to USA Today, will gear up in Hoover, Alabama, to take on the third ranked Hoover High. Though some ugliness already hangs over the game, as Miami Central head coach Roland Smith reported…
Police caught two suspects burglarizing boats at the marina near the Miami Marine Stadium in the early hours of Friday morning. Police than chased the men, but the suspects ended up jumping off of the Rickenbacker Causeway. One suspect was caught and detained, but authorities are still on the search…
Pesky ol’ 96L, the awkwardly named system that still needs to organize a bit more before earning the more dignified moniker of Tropical Storm Cristobal, is soaking the Lesser Antilles this morning and turning toward the northwest. The latest prediction from forecasters as of 8 a.m.: The storm will become…
The Miami chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police has come out in support of Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, the cop who fatally shot Michael Brown and sparked the monthlong conflict in Missouri. There’s nothing wrong, of course, with local police supporting their fellow officer. Unfortunately, like so many other…
Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, have raised questions about the militarization of American police departments. When angry protesters took to the streets to demand justice, Ferguson police responded with force. Cops in riot gear fired tear gas and stun grenades at marchers. At least one officer pointed his loaded assault…
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ruled today that Florida’s gay marriage ban violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantees of equal protection and due process. The federal judge’s ruling follows similar rulings by state judges in four counties. However, like those rulings, Hinkle immediately stayed his decision. Thus, same-sex couples in Florida…
Your mom’s favorite local entertainment reporter is leaving for L.A. After more than ten years sitting behind the desk of WSVN’s Deco Drive, Louis Aguirre is heading to Los Angeles as the new co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight’s sister show The Insider. See also: Deco Drive’s Louis Aguirre Isn’t Funny and…
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When developers Russell Galbut and Jorge Perez revealed their quickly nixed plans to build the largest condo tower on South Beach at 500 Alton earlier this year, they talked about it as their “legacy.” That’s nothing new. For years South Florida developers have been pretending their business deals are something…
Rick Scott announced plans this morning to raise per student spending on education in the state to its highest levels ever. Interestingly, the announcement came just a week after likely Democratic challenger Charlie Crist criss-crossed the state in a yellow school bus reminding people how much Scott had slashed education…
