America’s largest Hispanic-owned pharmacy chain is set to become a subsidy of a Fortune 500 company. CVS Pharmacy is set to buy Miami-based Navarro Discount Pharmacy. The chain will continue to operate under its original name and will mostly focus on Hispanic customers…
Over the past few months, LeBron James had been praising UConn star Shabazz Napier on Twitter. Shortly before the NBA Draft, LeBron declared that point guard was his favorite player in the draft. Then the Miami Heat went and drafted him, causing some to think it was all part of…
For nearly two months, UberX and Lyft have been operating their app-based ride-share services around Miami in direct violation of the county’s limo laws. In turn, the county has hit the services with dozens of citations and has even impounded drivers’ cars. All of that carnage could end if county…
The arrest report is, at first glance, your standard South Florida fare. Location: a house party in South Miami. Suspect: an 18-year-old kid. Charges: battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Then, however, there is the rather unusual weapon, listed in parentheses like an…
Miami Beach Police Sgt. Mike Muley has been relieved of duty after getting drunk during an off-duty security gig. This isn’t Muley’s first brush with controversy. He was demoted for his involvement in Officer Derick Kuilan’s infamous 2011 drunken ATV joyride…
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Pizza delivery people are some of our most important and underappreciated workers. They bring us pizza, after all. But two hoodlums in Southwest Miami-Dade viciously set up one deliveryman and ended up shooting him and stealing his wallet. The incident happened around 1 a.m. Sunday morning near SW 200th Street…
The traffic stop looks ordinary enough. Miami Police Officer Marcel Jackson pulls over a silver Chevy for speeding and walks up to the driver’s window. And when the driver leaps from his car, Jackson reacts like any other cop: He throws the driver to the ground and tries to cuff…
I’ll never forget how regretful I was. In 1993, just six days shy of my 14th birthday, Michael Jordan abruptly announced his retirement from the NBA. I promised myself if he ever came back, I would watch every game intently and appreciate him for what he was — a once-in-a-lifetime…
When LeBron James announced he’s heading back to Cleveland, most high-profile Floridians responded with understanding and gratitude for what he accomplished here. Gov. Rick Scott, of all people, was one of the lone exceptions. In a cheap attack that’s as insulting to Floridians’ intelligence as it is completely idiotic, his…
When LeBron dropped his back-to-Cleveland bombshell this afternoon, Miami Heat fans weren’t just confronted with losing the greatest player in the game. Suddenly it seemed all too possible that MIA could go to from the Finals to the cellar overnight, with Chris Bosh fielding a monster offer from Houston and…
What interesting timing. Just hours after LeBron James announced he was heading back home to Cleveland, allegedly crooked politician David Rivera had an announcement of his own. Rivera suspended his quixotic campaign to regain his seat in the U.S. House that he lost two years ago amidst scandal, and announced…
Despite an act of street art vandalism, Miamians have mostly reacted in measured respect to LeBron James’ decision. Miami’s most notable almost universally took to Twitter with messages full of nothing but thank yous and respect. The only real shade came in the form of Miamians rallying back around our…
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In Cleveland they burned jerseys when LeBron left. In Miami it only makes sense that instead we’d deface some LeBron James-inspired street art. Yes, a mural of the Miami Heat that has remained on a wall in Midtown Miami since Art Basel 2010 has already been defaced. Update: “It’s been…
Four years and a few weeks ago all Miami wanted was the return of Dwyane Wade. Heat mascot Burnie was placed atop the sign at the American Airlines Arena and refused to come down. The county commission voted to temporarily rename the county Miami-Wade. All we wanted was Wade, another…
Well, as local fans we went through one of the most surreal sports experiences of all time, got four trips to the NBA Finals and two championships out of it, and now it’s all over. LeBron James has picked the path of the prodigal son and is taking his talents…
The idea of closing Ocean Drive off to traffic and turning it into a pedestrian mall similar to Lincoln Road may have hit a snag once commissioners realized that the parking meters along the street bring in over $1 million in revenue a year. Instead, Miami Beach’s Land Use and…
All hell has broken loose, and everyone is a suspect. Everything is a sign. Everyone knows; nobody knows. Yesterday was one of the most ridiculous days in the history of the internet, as Heat fans and Cavs fans sat around their Twitter feeds all day waiting for something, anything, to…
“Gerrymandering” is a big, strange word, but in Florida it describes a simple enough problem: The state’s legislative districts are so artificially drawn that one of the nation’s most purple electorates has a lockstep Republican state house that will never face a serious challenge. Four years ago, voters backed change…
Sandy Cenin’s body was found on July 5 stuffed inside a green trash can in Little Haiti. It stood near the corner of NW 54th Street and North Miami Avenue with a yellow tarp covering the top. Thirty-two-year-old Cenin’s body had a single gunshot to the head. Now police have…
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