Miamians are rallying together to help their island neighbors as Hurricane Dorian continues to bulldoze the Bahamas. Dorian rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend before making landfall in the Bahamas yesterday.
Hurricane Dorian couldn’t have arrived at a worse time for families of Florida’s incarcerated. Many had planned their three-day holiday weekend around visiting their loved ones, only to receive the news Thursday evening that visitation had been canceled throughout the state.
As if there were ever a doubt, the Miami Dolphins’ trade of Laremy Tunsil and Kenny Stills to the Houston Texans this past Saturday for two future first-round picks and a second-round pick cements the obvious: The team is in full-fledged tank mode.
Last year, as Florence approached the United States, Mike Boylan went live from his home office in Oldsmar, about a half-hour north of Tampa. The storm for days had waffled between a Category 4 hurricane and a tropical storm, either of which could become a pain in the ass for parts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
Miami Beach residents were boarding up their windows Friday as the threat of Hurricane Dorian still loomed, but one 75-year-old woman instead had all of her belongings thrown out into the street behind her apartment in South Beach.
Hurricanes: They suck! You’re out of power for days or weeks, all the food in your fridge spoils, maybe your house or boat or houseboat gets completely destroyed and you have to move, and you probably have no WiFi in the meantime.
While Miamians are scrambling to sandbag their homes and batten down the hatches for Hurricane Dorian, some people seem to be forgetting their four-legged friends. And worse, others are purposely cutting them loose before the storm.
In a move some defense lawyers have blasted as cruel, Miami-Dade County yesterday evening said in a media release that it is trying to force some inmates currently out on pretrial release back behind bars before Hurricane Dorian hits Florida.
Hurricane Dorian isn’t supposed to hit Florida until Tuesday. Forecasters still don’t even know where the storm will make landfall. But that hasn’t stopped Floridians from preparing for the worst: Social media users have already posted images of long lines at grocery stores and barren shelves at home-improvement warehouses.
Miami Beach is known around the world for its colorful art deco hotels, boozy party scene, and, on a less fun note, sunny-day flooding. In recent years, dozens of international publications, from Vogue to the New Yorker, have written about how the city — which was basically built on a sandbar — experiences extreme flooding during king tides, when the moon is closest to the Earth.
Miami-Dade County ethics investigators are once again focusing their sights on the perennially scandal-plagued North Miami Beach. In recent years, two of the city’s mayors have pleaded to criminal charges.
Mercifully, Thursday night’s 16-13 preseason win against the New Orleans Saints was the Miami Dolphins’ final tuneup before the new-look squad kicks off the regular season against the Baltimore Ravens at Hard Rock Stadium September 8.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that they have suspended immigration enforcement operations in Florida until Dorian passes. Immigrant advocacy groups say they’re still preparing for the worst.
The likelihood that Hurricane Dorian will make hit the Sunshine State is increasing. The storm is now predicted to make landfall on Florida’s east coast as a Category 4 hurricane on Labor Day, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest projections, released at 5 p.m.
In news that perhaps might not sound surprising for Sunshine State government, a former employee of the Florida Office of the Attorney General was charged today with securities fraud.
We’ve all been there: You get to Publix after a long shift at work, days before a hurricane is projected to mess up your entire weekend. The shelves are picked clean, with just a few lone bottles of Topo Chico and a single can of tuna left for grabs. Someone inevitably throws a tantrum — or a punch. You really do hate to see it.
As Florida struggles to fill thousands of empty teaching positions, developers in the Miami area continue to erect expensive (and largely vacant) condo towers. This witch’s brew of scant affordable housing and abysmal pay for teachers has made Miami one of the worst metropolitan areas in the nation for an entry-level schoolteacher.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis formally declared a state of emergency this afternoon as Hurricane Dorian continues on its path toward South Florida.
A new TV ad campaign is hitting Florida airwaves to ask Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott to take national action against gun violence and pass background-check and red-flag laws.
More than 4 million Venezuelans have been forced to flee their country, most in the past few years, due to the economic and political crisis created by strongman Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez. The immense exodus, the largest in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere…
There are many types of Miami Dolphins fans in this world, but they all have one thing in common: an uncanny ability to withstand an absurd amount of annual disappointment while still signing up the following August to ask for more. Dolphins fans are like snowflakes: We’re all made of the same stuff, but none of us is exactly the same.
By 2014, the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) and Broward State Attorney’s Office had learned of misconduct allegations against former BSO crime lab analyst Kelli McDonald. That year, New Times broke the news that multiple cases handled by McDonald had either tainted or missing drug evidence.
