The surveillance video that leaked yesterday of a woman clad only in a thong rampaging through a Florida McDonald’s was so bizarre we weren’t even sure if it was real. Well now the woman, 41-year-old Sandra Suarez, has come forward to explain herself. Suarez says she wasn’t drunk or on…
A Miami-Dade cop charged with protecting citizens now finds himself on the other end of the law for endangering and injuring two of our youngest citizens. Officer Ryan Robinson, 41, was arrested on Saturday night for drunk driving after he struck a shopping cart with two children inside in a…
It has been an interesting few months for Ultra. In late March, the mega music festival once again drew nearly 200,000 people to Bayfront Park, making untold millions of dollars, and firmly establishing itself as America’s premier EDM event. But a concertgoer’s death and a stampede that nearly killed a…
If you lose your wallet in Miami, it’s not uncommon never to get it back, and if you do, there might be a little something missing. Some people are not above taking a finder’s fee. However, not everyone is terrible. A young fan who lost his wallet at Marlins Park…
Law school costs a lot. Duh. But did you know which law schools sack their grads with the highest average debt? You probably didn’t, and because U.S. News & World Report has made a franchise out of ranking every possible thing related to the sophisticated criminal enterprise known as American…
How does a good piece of poetry get made? And more to the point, where do wordsmiths find their rhythm? Lord Byron would make his way to a cave in Portovenere, Italy, to meditate and write some of the greatest romantic poetry ever composed. William Burroughs was never more at…
Until yesterday, Lt. Ralph Mata was the picture of an upstanding Miami-Dade cop. He was a top leader in Internal Affairs, spending his days going after corruption and abuse in the ranks. He’d earned exactly one mention in the Miami Herald in his career, for helping to lead a feel-good…
Controversy! For the third time this season, the Brooklyn Nets beat the Miami Heat. Last night the Nets won by a single point, thus sweeping the season series four games to none. But not without debate. With the Heat trailing by one, Miami had one frantic last chance to pull…
Sure, with local tourism breaking records in 2013 maybe we shouldn’t be too concerned with what some random list says. Yet the fact that TripAdvisor says places like Branson, Missouri, and Phoenix, Arizona, are better travel destinations than Miami Beach just doesn’t sit well with us…
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Clearly, Florida is a not a safe place for fast-food restaurants. Someone doing something crazy in a burger joint in the Sunshine State is about as frequent as summer afternoon rain, yet a woman in St. Petersburg has made an entry into the canon that is bound to become legendary…
Alan Gross, a 64-year-old American serving a 15-year prison sentence in Cuba for setting up internet access for the island’s Jewish population, has announced he’s begun a hunger strike partially in response to revelations about America’s secret efforts to start a “Cuban Twitter” aimed at youthful dissidents. “I am fasting…
In his long municipal career, Pat Salerno has shown two consistent tendencies: bringing big-money, landscape-changing projects to fruition and rubbing other government officials the wrong way with his management style. Six years after that latter habit got him run out of Sunrise, Salerno abruptly resigned this morning as Coral Gables…
Last year, Kevin Sutherland led his Mosaic Miami Church congregation through a sermon about sight and spirituality. “God begins to wash away” our blindness, the charismatic pastor said. “God begins to let us see.” Yet it was Sutherland’s foresight that would fail him. The 46-year-old preacher was charged last week…
You’re high on meth, cruising around Fort Lauderdale with dilated pupils, a rocketing body temperature, and a pipe on your lap, when cops suddenly pull you over. What do you do? Well, if you’re Carlos Lopez, then the purchasing director for the City of Hialeah, you stuff that meth pipe…
Ashton Kutcher made an unplanned cameo during a Florida Senate Transportation Committee meeting two weeks ago. Uber representatives presented a clip of the Two and Half Men star and Uber investor on Jimmy Kimmel Live blasting Miami for not changing longstanding laws to accommodate the upstart car service. “Basically, it’s…
Raul Medina Jr. walks into a Starbucks in Hollywood’s Young Circle and asks for a cup of black coffee with light hazelnut syrup and exactly two ice cubes. Better-known as DJ Raw, Medina brought hip-hop to Miami from his native South Bronx and founded Hoodstock, a free, big-name festival in…
Alex Rousseau, a Miami firefighter who has posed twice for the popular South Florida firefighters calendar, was arrested today for allegedly downloading child porn while at the firehouse…
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A man led police on a wild chase this morning after he escaped from Jackson Memorial Hospital’s crisis center. The unidentified suspect was being held under the Baker Act to undergo a mental evaluation but somehow slipped out and then tried to steal a car before successfully taking a bike…
The ceiling at Miami Herald’s former headquarters isn’t the only one being demolished. Alexandra Villoch has been named the new publisher and president of the Herald — the first time a woman has ever held the position. With Mindy Marques Gonzalez as executive editor, the Herald becomes not only one…
Miami is looking ever more likely to be the gravitational center of the GOP battle for 2016’s Presidential race. Locally grown Sen. Marco Rubio has already promised to make a call within the next year about whether to toss his hat into the wide-open Republican field and now the man…
