Two Miami Beach cops accused of assaulting a gay tourist in Flamingo Park are getting pink slips — even though prosecutors declined to file charges against them. Officers Elliut Hazzi and Frankly Forte are set to be fired, Commissioner Michael Gongora announced on his Twitter feed this afternoon.The two Beach…
In case the real Gov. Rick Scott hasn’t given you enough nightmare fuel to last a thousand bloody dreams, our in-house graphics department (commonly called “Pam Shavalier”) has compiled a new collection for your bedside perusal.In the spirit of Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes, the popular Tumblr site that endows women…
Another year, another season of uncertainty for Miami Hurricanes football. Could this finally be the year the once-storied team makes it to its first ACC championship game? Reporters who cover the Atlantic Coast Conference don’t think so and have picked Miami to finish second in its division…
Their bravery goes unheralded. Their story unheard. But Miami-Dade County’s heroic corps of sentinel chickens is your first line of defense against mosquito-borne diseases, and one such chicken in North Miami came down with a fatal strain of West Nile virus, signaling a return of the disease to the county…
Miami Police have closed off several streets in downtown following a possible bomb threat made to the building that houses the Israeli Consulate. Police say a man was spotted in front of the building at 100 Biscayne Blvd. carrying a briefcase and making several verbal threats. Updated…
We wouldn’t wish a trip to Jackson Memorial Hospital on our worst enemies. Yet according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign, the public Jackson Health System is the only hospital in the entire southern United States cited this year for providing equal care to LGBT patients. That’s…
It’s been a strange week for Miami Heat star-turned-executive Alonzo Mourning. He was involved in an alleged hit-and-run accident, with the other driver filing a lawsuit. He then hosted his annual Zo’s Summer Grove charity weekend only to have Dave Chappelle involved in a metaphoric on-stage car crash. Now he…
German Guanchez, 57, stood before a judge yesterday with two black eyes and a “Save the Pumpkins” T-Shirt. Guanchez was in court after allegedly making a fake bomb threat that shut down a Kendall gym. Police can’t quite put together a motive, and it does not appear that Guanchez is…
Doctors today are still struggling to save the life of an off-duty New York City cop grievously wounded during an early morning shootout on South Beach on Saturday. Detective Harold Thomas has undergone at least two surgeries after a bullet tore through his femoral artery during the gunfight on Collins…
David Vigil had never met a girl like Candice Cooper Boley in Miami Beach before: a tiny Alabama belle whose quick smile and Southern drawl were as out of place as a snowflake. When they started dating in February, Boley say, she wasn’t interested in marriage or kids. But after…
The South Florida Tea Party posted some shocking statistics last week: Compared to England and Canada, Americans have better cancer survival rates, a larger proportion of healthy low-income seniors and better treatment of diabetes.It also said only 8 percent of President Barack Obama’s cabinet has experience in the private sector,…
Miami New Times and the Village Voice topped America’s alternative newspapers in last week’s awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in New Orleans. Staff writer Gus Garcia-Roberts was given the nod for best feature for a story about fallen music entrepreneur Scott Storch. Freelancers Brandon Thorp and…
In another public reaffirmation of his belief that gay people are going to make America lose wars, Florida Republican Congressman Allen West said at a dinner in Plant City Saturday night that “when you take the military and you tell it they must conform to the individual’s behavior, then it’s just…
An off-duty New York City police officer was shot on South Beach outside a ritzy beach resort early this morning, police say. Miami Beach detectives have shut down Collins Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets today while they search for whomever shot the off-duty vacationing cop outside the luxury 1233…
Could former Florida Governor Jeb Bush be following in the dainty footsteps of other conservative figures like Tom Delay, Tucker Carlson, and Bristol Palin, and strapping on a dance belt for a run on Dancing With the Stars? Probably not, but the former Governor says he’d never rule it out…
It may not be as dramatic as last July’s personnel change, but the Miami Heat have a new CEO and they didn’t have to look far. Nick Arison will take over the position from his father, team owner Micky Arison…
The Miami-Dade County Public School System, the fourth biggest school system in the nation, has adopted new rules meant to specifically protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students from harassment. The School Board amended a state law passed three years ago, the Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up for All Students Act,…
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The murder trial for the fatal stabbing that claimed the life of 17-year-old Juan Carlos Rivera in the halls of Coral Gables Senior High School back in 2009 is underway. Prosecutors are eager to portray the defendant, Andy Rodriguez, as a jealous boyfriend who stabbed Rivera after his girlfriend, Daimilsis…
Down here in Florida we like to start ’em on the binge drinking when they’re still youngins. Let’s be honest, by the time kids get to their first UCF fraternity party they’re already seasoned partying pros. Though, maybe 18-months-old is just a little bit too young.Yeah, a toddler up in…
Rumors abound that former Dolphins legend Jason Taylor is about to hang up his cleats for good and enter the broadcasting booth. Well, Taylor says he’s not ready to retire from the gridiron just yet, and isn’t ruling out another return to the Miami Dolphins. But after the ugly way…
Two men are dead after a tragic situation in North Miami Beach last night. Thirty-seven-year-old Jonathan Woolfson is believed to have possibly killed his friend, Troy Longhurst, then Woolfson himself was shot after a stand off with the SWAT team…
