Dolphins Shut Out By Patriots 28-0, Go 7-9 Again

Sunday’s action featured the incredible story of an extraordinary athlete’s return from a horrific injury to come back against all odds, put his team on his back and lead that now playoff-bound team to victory just as the hero himself nearly broke one of the most coveted records in NFL…

New Year Resolutions For Miami’s Best and Brightest

The world didn’t end after all on December 21, so now we all gotta make amends for our bad behavior in 2012. Our New Year’s resolutions last year all failed, of course, whether it was taking abuelita to church every Sunday or deleting our Facebook accounts because Mark Zuckerberg is…

Tax Refund Scams Plagued Miami-Dade In 2012

With another tax season descending on us, you might want to secure your W-2 or 1099 a little tighter. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has uncovered more than a dozen rackets involved in stealing tax refund checks using stolen identities of social security applicants,…

The Ten Most Popular New Times Features of 2012

Here at Miami New Times we publish one in-depth, 5,000 word feature a week. We’re one of the few publications in Miami that does so regularly. It’s kind of our thing.Of course, some tend to resonate more with others. Here are our ten most popular features of the year, as…

Homestead UPS Worker Arrested for Stealing Christmas Gifts

There’s only one person who is supposed to eat your cookies without explicit permission during the Christmas season and that’s Santa. Not Shuwana.Shuwana Horne, a Homestead woman who worked at a UPS warehouse in Islamaroda, has been arrested for opening and eating an undelivered tin of cookies and pocketing an…

Arrest Made in Halloween Murder at Taverna Opa

Revelry turned to tragedy this past Halloween at Taverna Opa in Mary Brickell Village when a man in a red devil mask punched another man so hard it eventually lead to his death. Two months later, Miami police have now arrested Sagy Shachar for the deadly attack…

LeBron James: Ric Flair Created Swag

Swag: What is it? Where did it come from? Who invented it? How do you know if you have or not? These are some of the greatest mysteries of our brave new YOLO era.Well, LeBron James has answered at least one of these questions. He claims professional wrestling Ric Flair…

Did Dwyane Wade Kick Someone in the Nuts Last Night?

The Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade isn’t known for his dirty play, but last night he may have delivered one of the lowest blows known to man. Not just in sports, but in general.Because it kind of looked like he kicked the Charlotte Bobcats’ Ramon Sessions square in the nuts last…