Wednesday evening, a cop in Key Largo saw two motorcycles whiz by on Overseas Highway at more than 100 mph. The cop, Dep. Brian Cross, decided it was too dangerous to pursue the two bikes, so he radioed an alert instead. Half an hour later, one of the motorcyclists attracted…
Leave it to Florida Democrats to somehow screw up a race that less than a year ago seemed impossible to lose. According to the latest poll released by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Rick Scott leads Charlie Crist by 3 points in a head-to-head match up. That lead increases to…
Considering that lightning-filled monsoons sweep across Dade County every afternoon this time of year, waiting out weather delays at Miami International Airport is par for the course. The morass travelers encountered last night at MIA, though, was anything but typical. A double-whammy of busted computers and broken runway lights left…
If you live in Florida, there’s only a little more than a one-in-three chance you were born in this state. In fact, Florida has the second-lowest rate of population made up by native-born residents of that state in the entire nation. Perhaps it’s not necessarily shocking to Miamians, but a…
From high above Biscayne Boulevard, Frank Steslow peers down into what looks like the world’s largest punch bowl. Grown men crawl like insects inside the massive martini-glass-shaped structure. Rebar pokes out at odd angles. Construction cranes swirl. Concrete settles into place. Steslow is showing off his baby: the brand-new, half-built…
There’s lots of let’s say interesting interior decorating choices in Miami Beach, but it’s not every day we come across a home that features an honest-to-God stripper pole jutting out of its coffee table. Today is that day thanks to Curbed, which highlights this $4.88 million condo in the Continuum…
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In the wake of the Michael Brown saga in Missouri, more than 185,000 people have signed a Change.org petition that would require all police officers to wear body cameras. Well, those body cameras could be coming to the Miami-Dade Police Department as soon as next year…
Who wouldn’t want to trade in the blue-collar life of Hialeah for a night in a swanky hotel in Palm Beach? Just make sure you can actually pay for it before you head there. A Hialeah couple — Javier Roura, 25, and Joanna Sanchez, 28 — were arrested after ringing…
Amid searing criticism from the Miami-Dade County police union for a budget that had slated layoffs for nearly a quarter of its force, County Mayor Carlos Gimenez proposed a revised plan last night that would see the number of layoffs reduced by half, with a chunk of the savings coming…
Eight protesters were arrested at the James Lawrence King Federal Justice Building in downtown Miami Thursday afternoon. Hundreds of demonstrators met in downtown Miami across from the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus to peacefully demand an end to police brutality in response to the ongoing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, over…
On February 4, 2013, an effusive man with short-cropped hair and a prominent gap between his front teeth strolled into Miami New Times’ newsroom. He shook hands with staffers, admired our wall of fading award plaques and old cover illustrations, and then got down to business. Just a week earlier,…
Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi has been acquitted by a federal jury on charges that he took a nearly $7,000 kickback for supporting a grant for his city. See also: Feds case against Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi is Weak, Transcripts Suggest…
Ever wanted to see a local politicians have ice cold water dumped on him? Well, today you’re in luck. In the midst of his reelection campaign, Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia decided to jump on the internet’s coldest trend, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…
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No one really asked Jeb Bush, but it isn’t much of a surprise he’s not down with medical marijuana. The former governor, along with the Florida Chamber, the Associated Builders and Contractors of Florida and the Florida Trucking Association, is the latest to join the anti-medical marijuana push…
Next Tuesday 400 Miami-Dade County police officers will gather in a large banquet hall at FIU’s football stadium in University Park, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. The occasion? A frank talk about the officers’ future unemployment. Under county mayor Carlos Gimenez’s current proposed budget, 228 officers — or about a…
Lots of cities claim to be the world capital of something or other. Las Vegas is the world capital of gambling. Nashville, the world capital of country music. New York can be called the world capital of finance, media, and culture. But what about Miami? Well, the most common answer…
The Miami-Dade Democrats have a new chairman and on one hot-button issue, he’s got one of the strongest positions in the state: Sen. Dwight Bullard thinks marijuana should be legal not just for medical purposes but for recreational use. “Marijuana, whether medical or recreational, could be another way of generating…
Two bills to prohibit red-light traffic cameras failed to pass Florida’s legislature this spring. And now Miami-Dade officials have taken the initiative to place an additional 150 cameras at intersections throughout the county. See also: Rick Scott Signs Bill To Make Red-Light Cameras Slightly Less Bogus…
Robert Baumann watched as his ex-girlfriend changed before his eyes, going from a free-spirited girl from Broward to an angry young woman with radical, hard-right politics. But it wasn’t Megan Everett’s transformation alone that bothered Robert. He was troubled by the impact his ex’s new life had on their 2-year-old…
It’s hard to imagine a character less suited to Alex Rodriguez’s luxury lifestyle of private jets and South of Fifth condos than the shackled man federal agents led into the DEA’s Weston headquarters the morning of August 5. Yuri Sucart was clad in a baggy white T-shirt, ill-fitting black pants,…
