Seven months after Israel “Reefa” Hernandez was killed by Miami Beach cops, authorities finally announced what his family knew all along: The teen died from being hit with a Taser. The findings, which were disclosed last week by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office, contradict both news reports and claims by…
The Miami Marlins are back! In Jupiter! Wait, don’t leave! There are a couple of things you might want to keep an eye on between Heat games and Dolphins TMZ Sports news. The Marlins aren’t entering the 2014 season with many expectations, or much hype, and real baseball is still…
Eric Madrid is a 32-year-old shaman with a cropped beard, a protruding lower lip, and dark curls grown long in the back. Although he typically wears an all-black uniform, from flat-brimmed cap to high-top skate shoes, he’s barefoot and stripped to his skinny jeans this January night. He lies prostrate…
Darkness has swallowed the train tracks. It won’t be long until the men arrive. At 9:50 p.m., the first pair of headlights punches through the black, and a white Ford pickup rolls into the parking lot of a large warehouse sitting among the nameless structures dominating the Miami-Hialeah border. Within…
The evening was sliding toward midnight, but the students were still hanging out. It was February 9, 2013, and the five members of Florida International University’s Muslim Student Association had finished their evening prayers in the room they used daily at the Graham Center, the student union on the school’s…
Because there are no two phrases Americans still recovering from the recession like to hear in the same sentence more than “Bush” and “Wall Street,” Bloomberg News reports that Wall Street’s money men are really hot on the idea of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush running for president in 2016…
Oh, the problems of Miami’s mega-rich developers. When they weren’t busy gentrifying neighborhoods and erecting luxury destinations, developers Craig Robins (currently transforming the Design District) and Ugo Colombo (known for building several Brickell luxury skyscrapers and owning the Collection car dealership group) decided to buy a jet together in 2007…
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The third wealthiest man in the world is now a major stakeholder in Miami’s local media market. Mega-investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company has agreed to buy Miami’s ABC affiliate, WPLG, in a stock-swap deal that’s valued at $1.1 billion…
Did you know that pimps in Miami are competitive about their style of shoes but are more than willing to cooperate to avoid prosecution? Or that brothels here can often be a family business? Or that the overall sex trade income has declined since 2003? The Urban Institute has released…
Oldy Ochoa Jr. allegedly met the girl while working on a case. The two flirted on Facebook and e-mail, and — according to the girl — the Miami Beach Police detective photographed his young muse as she posed suggestively. According to a search warrant obtained by CBS 4 News, the…
Are selfies the ultimate in shallow vanity or an empowering, confidence-boosting tool of self-appreciation? Who knows? But in Miami, we take a lot of them. In fact, Time magazine has concluded the Miami area is the third most selfie-obsessed city in the entire world…
In December, a New Timesinvestigation showed how an unlicensed doctor like Tony Bosch could sell tightly regulated drugs like steroids so openly from his Coral Gables clinic — including to superstar athletes like Alex Rodriguez. The answer: Florida’s laws include a giant loophole allowing clinics that only accept cash to…
Darkness has swallowed the train tracks. It won’t be long until the men arrive. At 9:50 p.m., the first pair of headlights punches through the black, and a white Ford pickup rolls into the parking lot of a large warehouse sitting among the nameless structures dominating the Miami-Hialeah border. Within…
Alex Sink just can’t seem to win anything. Four years after her narrow loss to now governor Rick Scott, Sink again came up short yesterday in a special election for Florida’s 13th congressional district. The contest was closely watched across the country. It was widely billed as a bellwether for…
Gov. Rick Scott has found time in his busy schedule to write a book. It’s called Chasing Sunshine: Remarkable People Who Found the American Dream in Florida. One of those people happens to be Tramar Dillard, AKA the rapper Flo Rida, AKA the guy who had a number one song…
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Stephen Ross clearly wants to spin his decision to pay for renovations to Sun Life Stadium out of pocket as an act of something akin to charity. The Miami Dolphins owner has now issued his first public statement on the decision, and sidesteps the issue that the deal would see…
The Heat have plenty of camera-ready, media-polished personalities. Chris “Birdman” Andersen is not one of them. He was a guest on the Fox Sports post-game show last night and either gave one of the best or worst interviews of all time, depending on your preference for awkwardness. “The losing is…
Florida may lag behind other states on several more important scales, but when it comes to attracting drunk college kids and other tourists during this time of year, we’re still king. According to USA Today, Florida appears ready to shatter its previous records this year for most visitors to the…
Because Florida Republicans can’t find a gun violence problem they don’t think they can fix with more guns, a new bill that would allow teachers to pack heat in the classroom has passed its first state Senate panel…
Coral Reef Senior High Principal Adrianne Leal asked her teachers not to post anything on social media before President Obama visited her school last Friday. But for history teacher Randall Scott, holding back was not an option. The birther, who calls himself a “Republican Extremist,” wasn’t about to self-censor. This…
