Well, this certainly is a whole new way to get stuck on the Palmetto. Earlier this morning a man was found walking along the busy Palmetto Expressway with his feet bare and his hands bound behind his back. When police questioned the man he claimed that he had been abducted…
The second Super Cool Beas era is upon the Miami Heat …and Michael Beasley is as Michael Beasley as ever. During a pre-season game last night against the Detroit Piston, Beasley got called for a travel and was so angry at himself he decided to up and punch himself in…
With Capitol Hill still locked in a debt-ceiling full nelson, President Obama offered a compromise last night on one thorny shutdown issue: States can now reopen national parks using their own money. Governors in at least four states have jumped at the offer. After all, millions of tourism dollars have…
There’s no soul more blighted in the Miami Beach panorama than a car-locked driver around 9 a.m. at 14th and Alton, who sits behind dozen of cars, wondering just what in God’s name is happening at the front of the line to engender such congestion. Worse, there’s no clear answer…
Who’s at fault when internet celebrities become targets of real-life harassment? Are they victims of their own narcissism? What about when they’re under the age of consent? For our cover story this week, New Times looked at what happens to a young girl when she achieves pseudo-fame online. We profiled…
Midtown could see a budget big-box Walmart and a fancy luxury hill under construction at the same time. Hyde Midtown, the sister hotel of SLS South Beach, is set to begin early next year, and Ex Miami has renderings of the Arquitectonica-designed tower…
The nationwide salmonella outbreak has hit Miami-Dade County. Three cases were reported here in an outbreak that is believed to have started with a chicken producer all the way in California…
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If you’re looking to make good money right away right out of college in the state of Florida, you might be better off going to Florida International University than the University of Florida. In fact, FIU has a higher percentage of graduates who are working or continuing their education within…
I’m Ricky the football man, I’m Ricky the football man. I gots lot of speed ’cause I smokes me my weed. I’m Ricky the football man. Don’t mind us. We’re just writing Ricky Williams’ new theme song. The former Miami Dolphins who was frequently suspended and disciplined for his marijuana…
Miami-Dade Police are on the hunt for a man they believe lured a woman into a sexual assault by offering her a job. The incident happened August 1, when the suspect met his 20-year-old victim at a bus stop at SW 137th Avenue and 26th Street. The man offered the…
Jimmy Dewayne Whipple made a series of unfortunate mistakes this past Tuesday. First, he called the local police department to report that his gun had been stolen. That’s a reasonable thing for most people to do but less of a great idea when you’re a felon who is not allowed…
If your knees get shaky and your palms sweat every time you get near Orlando and catch a glimpse of a roller coaster from I-4, avoid this story like the express line to Space Mountain. Because a dozen visitors at Universal Orlando spent three hours yesterday living the ride-phobe’s worst…
Technically, summer is over. For most of the country, the season of sweating like a marathon runner and suffering third-degree sunburns ended two weeks ago, back on September 22. But anyone in Florida will tell you that date is meaningless, because in these parts, summer doesn’t end until Halloween, if…
Loli-chan is a modern-day Rapunzel locked inside a South Miami fortress of rust and weeds on a dead-end street. She rarely leaves a guest house that sits in a jungle-like yard overrun with six peacocks and half as many junked cars. Ten paces away is her parents’ place. Wooden boards…
On August 6, FBI agents swooped into Sweetwater City Hall, handcuffed Mayor Manuel Maroño, and charged him with bribery. The feds alleged Maroño and business partner Jorge Forte accepted $40,000 in payola from a pair of undercover agents pretending to be corrupt Chicago businessmen aiming to defraud the federal government…
As 200 protesters chanted and waved signs, Israel Hernandez’s sister voiced the concern that had drawn so many to South Beach on a Sunday afternoon. “Today, I [still] do not know why my brother died,” Ofir Hernandez shouted to the crowd. “They have not given us answers.” In fact, Miami…
What’s the difference between porn — where people hump for money — and prostitution, where one person pays another for sexual services? Nothing, says Michael Weinstein. As president and founder of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Weinstein has been a pain in the bare ass of the porn industry. His organization…
Turns out it was even worse than we’d thought. Reno Yohai, a five-time felon and child molester, did not have 34 pit bulls trapped inside his West Park home, on the border of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, as New Times reported two weeks ago (“In the Doghouse,” Terrence McCoy, September…
As I’m reminded everytime I log onto Facebook or Twitter this week, just about everyone has an opinion on the federal government shutdown. Well, almost everyone. Rick Scott is refusing to clarify where he stands on the issue…
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The start of NBA season is just weeks away, and oddsmakers are rolling out the betting lines for who will win the championship. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise then that the Heat are once again Vegas’s favorites…
