This news story will appear in Wednesday’s issue of New Times. It includes reporting that was published last week on our news blog, and which was referenced without attribution in this weekend’s Miami Herald. Beansprout teenage basketball players from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, all wearing purple tracksuits, filled…
When Sen. Marco Rubio announced he’d be sitting out the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, it gave the impression that he was trying to distance himself, for now at least, from certain elements of the right wing. Well, Rubio actually did make an appearance at CPAC today, though through…
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Yesterday, we wondered if the protests in Egypt could spur similar strife in Venezuela. Today, Marco Rubio seemed to have subtlety urged on the idea by releasing a statement saying, “Today’s events should hearten those struggling for greater freedom and respect for human rights in our own Hemisphere.”Yet, the only…
Mark this as a failure for local ad firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Groupon.com has finally decided to pull it’s Super Bowl ads created by the firm after public outrage. In the most controversial example, Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton talked passionately about the plight of the people of Tibet before…
This morning, readers of The Miami Herald awoke to learn what any guy with an internet connection has known for years: sometimes people make porno movies in semi-public spots in South Florida. Though, this specific porn was shot on Monument Island near the Flagler Memorial, which was recently restored with…
Traffic was snarled this morning in downtown after a man died in a car crash after his car was hit by another vehicle traveling the wrong way down the MacArthur Causeway. The accident happened at about 3:20 a.m. when 22-year-old Omar Bravo was driving westward on the eastbound lanes of…
Angry crowds have shouted for his ouster for weeks. Civic leaders have loudly decried his reign. His minions are accused of abusing the public with indiscriminate violence. And yet Miami PD chief Miguel Exposito keeps his tenuous grasp on power.Oh, you thought we were talking about that other guy? Nope,…
City of Miami police officers have shot and killed another suspect — the seventh killed by MPD cops since last summer. The latest shooting happened last night around 11 p.m. at North Miami Avenue and 75th Street, police sources tell Riptide, and left another man in critical condition.Police are declining…
So we finally reached Bernard Wright, the sketchy high school recruiter and legal guardian of disqualified-and-then-reinstated Dr. Michael Krop High guard Brian Delancy. This is what he had to say: “Don’t you ever fucking call this number again. You’re a fucking scum bag and if I ever fucking catch you…
Rick Scott may have moved on, but his ol’ employer is the same as ever.Barely a week after Scott’s former company — the for-profit hospital giant HCA — signed an agreement to buy Mercy Hospital, the iconic Biscayne Bay infirmary has announced that it’s slashing its programs for poor and…
Juan Carlos Rodriguez, the Miami-Dade police officer accused of fondling two teenage girls during a traffic stop, will have to rustle up a little less cash to head home for house arrest before his trial. A judge has reduced Rodriguez’s bond from $150,000 to $80,000…
After weeks of tumultuous protests, embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is widely expected to step down as soon as tonight. Will other “democratically elected” presidents-for-life across the globe soon face similar fates? Now that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has announced plans to run for re-election and could see his power extended…
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Thirty-two-year-old Carlos Usatorres, a former full-time gym teacher at Miami Springs Middle School, was arrested last December on charges that he was having repeated sexual encounters in his office with a 13-year-old female student. The arrest has been kept quiet until now, but the attorney for the girl’s family is…
Dhafir Harris, aka Dada 5000, is back in the MMA ring this Saturday night. The Perrine Spartan is the second headline match for the Mixed Fighting Alliance’s event at the U.S. Century Bank Arena located in the south campus of Florida International University. For the past two weeks, Harris has…
We all know Florida takes its high school sports more seriously than, say, its budget — but a baseball coach in Orlando’s hard-nosed attitude has suddenly made him the national face of villainous athletic leadership (sorry Bobby Knight.) Coach Mike Bradley’s crime? Cutting Anthony Burruto, a double amputee with serious…
The former Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Rashnitsov and News Editor Jeremy Jones of the Florida Agenda, one of South Florida’s few bastions of serious journalism targeted at the gay community, have abruptly quit after they believed publishers tried to censor them. Rashnitsov had relinquished his role as EIC but was still writing…
Controversial but undeniably talented former Auburn quarterback Cam Newton is taking the unusual step of hosting his own Pro Day in San Francisco today, but will only open the display to the media and not NFL scouts. It’s the latest odd PR step in a career that’s been full of…
Despite what your mother may have told you, scientists have never been able to prove that eating more candy gives you acne. However, a new student-led research study out of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine seems to suggest a direct link between the amount of chocolate you…
An injured man probably had mixed feelings when cops showed up at his house early this morning. On one hand, the man had several injuries and desperately needed medical attention. On the other hand, he was running a marijuana grow house that police discovered when they came to assist him…
On yesterday’s Dan LeBatard show on 790 The Ticket, sometime New Times strip club expert Disco Rick provided intimate details about Rick Ross’ infamous birthday party earlier this month at King Of Diamonds. Using the tenacious reporting chops that helped him break the University of Miami Pell grant scandal in…
