The call came in around 1 o’clock this morning, routed from 911 dispatchers to the U.S. Coast Guard: A boat had capsized a few miles from Government Cut. When the rescue boats and helicopter arrived, they found an overturned craft bobbing in the sea with survivors barely clinging to the…
On Monday, ESPN reported that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is planning to partner with David Beckham to bring an MLS expansion team to Miami. MLS commissioner Don Garber, meanwhile, has said three of the four expansion sites after New York City FC have been “spoken for.” Miami, Orlando, and Atlanta…
Burger King is one of the largest companies with global headquarters in Miami-Dade. Which is, in theory, great for the local economy, but BK’s practice of paying its restaurant employees low wages may not be so great for the American economy. A new study estimates that Burger King employees might…
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Bill Edwards is one of Rick Scott’s top individual donors. He wrote a $500,000 check to Scott’s Let’s Get to Work re-election PAC. Ironically, almost 500 of Edwards’ employees will not get to work soon. One of his companies, Mortgage Investment Corp. (MIC), abruptly announced yesterday it’s laying off 476…
A naked man running around a Miami neighborhood ended up impaling himself on a gate while trying to escape cops earlier this morning. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Police received a call from a screaming woman who claimed she had been assaulted. When they arrived at the scene, the…
There are a lot of reasons to cook up a murder-for-hire plot, and not one of them is great. Maybe your husband is an abusive womanizer who’s cheating on you, or your business partner is embezzling loads of money. Hell, maybe you’re even an oil tycoon’s son and you’re sick…
William Happ, who’s spent the past 27 years on death row for raping and killing 21-year-old Lauderdale Lakes woman Angie Crowley in 1986, will be the first person to experience a new execution serum that, across the nation, only Florida has been willing to use. The drug, called midazolam hydrochloride,…
When Dr. Norman Block got the news in May 2012, he was incredulous. The Nobel Laureate he’d brought to the University of Miami to work on cancer research — a groundbreaking drug researcher named Andrew Schally — would lose $150,000 in funding. Schally would have to lay off two researchers…
There’s still tons of people who actually live in Miami Beach who have no idea who they’re going to vote for in the November 5th election for Miami Beach’s next mayor, but apparently ex-President Bill Clinton has made up his mind already. Clinton turns out is buddy-buddy with multi-millionaire candidate…
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Betty Pino, the popular radio DJ who could be heard on Univision’s Amor 107.5 FM, died in August at Jackson Memorial Hopsital due to a bacterial infection. Now El Nuevo Herald reports that Pino contracted the infection after a botched procedure to implant silicone into her buttocks and died during…
Disney World wasn’t the happiest place on earth Saturday. Austin DeVan Hill, 24, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, was arrested after he went on what appeared to be a drunken rampage and injured three cast members at Epcot…
Remember when the Miami Heat wore hoodies in honor of Travyon Martin? Well, now another slain teenager’s name is on the lips of LeBron James and company after a graffiti artist’s audacious stunt. Heat players arriving to American Airlines Arena this weekend were welcomed by huge, white letters splashed across…
Thirty weekend revelers and a dog were pulled from the waters off Miami yesterday after a catamaran they were on began taking on water and capsized. There are no reports of death or serious injuries, but the rescue effort was intense, and the unlicensed captain might face charges…
Since the day he was elected, Rick Scott has been one of the most unpopular governors in America, often hovering below 30 percent in polls. He’s tried everything from casual Fridays to flipping hamburgers in local restaurants to boost his numbers. But the most recent Q poll still shows nearly…
So there you are, three or four tequila shots deep, grooving on the dance floor, straight gettin’ it on. But then, because you’re dancing in your fave pair of five-inch stilettos, your feet start throbbing. So rather than abandon your sashay — because that would be cray — you slip…
Five months ago, Holly Jacobs made the brave decision to become the international face of revenge porn victims. The pretty FIU grad student told New Times that her ex-boyfriend had posted sexually explicit photos and videos of her on the internet, nearly ruining her life. Braver still, Jacobs began a…
More details are coming out in the chilling case of Derek Medina, who shot his wife and posted a picture of her lifeless body and a confession on Facebook. Police have released the 26-page transcript of the statement Medina made to police after he turned himself in after killing Jennifer…
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The family of a woman who hijacked a jail golf cart and drove it into a barricade is worried sick that’s she’s not receiving the proper mental health help she needs in jail. They say her rambling and bizarre appearance in bond court, in which she said things like, “I…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is such a part of Miami-Dade’s political firmament it’s hard to imagine the moderate Republican losing her seat until she’s ready to retire. But a new poll shows Ros-Lehtinen trailing a generic Democratic opponent by two points. Is this just a temporary manifestation of the anti-incumbent and…
