Forever has been put on hiatus for the rest of the day. The newly opened mega-Forever 21 on Lincoln Road in South Beach caught fire this morning, causing parts of the popular pedestrian mall to be evacuated. The store will remain closed for the rest of the day…
Florida is so full of inhumane crimes that it really takes something truly heartless to make us shudder. Let’s just say we hope there’s a special place in hell for Thomas Elliot Huggins. The 25-year-old Tampa man is accused of killing and then cooking his own mother’s puppy…
It’s been a decade since a University of Miami Hurricane went in the NBA Draft’s first round. But this year’s edition of the Canes made history by winning the ACC outright and rolling into the tournament’s Sweet Sixteen, so it’s appropriate that their star would land higher in the draft…
With the iconic Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald neon sign torn down, the parking lot locked up and barren, and the building abandoned, it’s amazing how quickly 1 Herald Plaza has faded into history. Drive past today and it feels like eons ago that it was the center of Dade’s newspapering…
Waking up after a night of partying at YOLO the club and realizing you’ve been conned out of $100,000 is a great way to feel serious shame and regret, unless you are actually Drake. (In which case, YOLO!) Sheriff’s detectives in Broward County are currently searching for a group of…
Sure, Marco Rubio may have pissed off both sides of the political spectrum as the face of the U.S. Senate’s immigration reform bill, which includes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and millions more in border security measures. But as he builds his case as a national political candidate…
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Rachel Jeantel, the star witness in the Trayvon Martin murder trial who was on the phone with Martin right before his confrontation with George Zimmerman, is confusing the nation with an accent that seems completely normal to Miamians but apparently foreign to everyone else. During cross-examination, Zimmerman’s lawyers have frequently…
The responses to the Supreme Court’s decisions on gay marriage yesterday by Florida’s two senators couldn’t have been more different. Democrat Bill Nelson released a terse 17-word statement supporting the decision, while Marco Rubio spent 482 words explaining why he doesn’t he agree with it…
In today’s economy, trading your nude photos for rent might seem like a good deal. But ask yourself: Do I really want to live with someone who is willing to collect my n00dz in lieu of actual rent? That’s probably not going to end well…
Tuesday evening, an 18-year-old Gainesville resident named Bamboo Flute Blanchard grabbed a pocket knife and idly thought, I wonder what it would be like to take a life? Then he wandered into the bedroom where his dad was lying, opened the knife, and plunged it into his chest…
If Floridians went to the polls today, literally this very day, there’s a pretty good chance at least 50 percent of voters in the state would support gay marriage. Unfortunately, that still wouldn’t mean there’d be gay wedding chapels popping up in Wilton Manors and South Beach by the end…
HIV-positive residents at a Salvation Army shelter in Liberty City claim they are being forced back onto the streets this weekend because of bigotry and budget cuts. Two people living in the charity’s command center on 38th Street say they have been told to move out by Monday, insulted by…
“I’m just looking for a generous guy who wants to spoil me like I deserve,” Rachel croons into her cell phone, leaving a not-so-subtle message with the cool, coquettish tone of a practiced phone sex worker. Her voice is high and childlike, but in reality, the black 20-year-old is all…
On a bright and humid Saturday morning, a tanned woman approaches a Dunkin’ Donuts counter, brandishes an iPhone, and informs the employees they’re under “video surveillance.” They’d forgotten her receipt the night before, she proclaims, so now she’s returned for a free meal. And revenge. In a hoarse voice, she…
Did you hear, bro? Gov. Rick Scott is such a buzzkill. He just signed a law that makes it illegal for smoke shops to sell just about every pipe, bro! Glass, wooden, acrylic, stone, metal, with or without screens, with carburetors too! We’re gonna have to stock up on apples…
Ernesto Perez, founder and president of Dade Medical College, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons this month. As the Miami Herald reported June 8, the Miami-Dade State Attorney and the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission are conducting separate probes into why Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman pushed officials to…
Things began getting rowdy around 7:30 p.m. in anticipation of Game 7. Hordes of white-clad Miami Heat fans crossed Biscayne Boulevard en masse, pissing off the cops who tried in vain to control traffic outside the American Airlines Arena. Parents with strollers rolled up to outlandishly costumed men to Instagram…
Rick Scott didn’t have much to say today when asked about the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act aside from correctly noting that nothing is really going to change all that much in Florida. See also: Defense of Marriage Act Is Unconstitutional, Supreme Court Rules…
Terri Wright will forever regret granting an exclusive interview to Chris Sweeney, a former New Times staff writer who wrote about her questionable conduct as a jury forewoman during the 2011 drug trafficking and gun trial of reggae megastar Buju Banton. Earlier today, Tampa federal judge James S. Moody Jr…
“If you call a tail a leg, then how many legs does a cow have? Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.” No, this is not the terrible opening joke to the trial of George Zimmerman. Instead, this is the equally terrible analogy (actually an Abraham…
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