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.
If you’ve lived in Miami longer than, say, one week, you’re probably familiar with the South Florida weather sensation known as king tides. During a few stretches of the year when the moon is closest to the Earth, the gravitational pull causes higher-than-normal tides, prompting the hellish phenomenon of sunny-day flooding.
So you’ve settled in: You have a few new tropical plants you’ve named Harriet and Oswald, you’ve got a basic handle on which highways suck (all of them), and you’re at least tangentially aware that whatever apartment you inhabit now will probably be chronically flooded by 2100. You’re coming to…
Everyone who comes to Miami has one of two questions: “Do you go to the beach every day?” and “Do I have to learn Spanish to get by here?” The answer to the first is a simple and resounding no, but the second one is a bit more complicated. I’ve…
I’m a fifth-generation Californian whose family has always called the San Francisco Bay Area home. My great-greatgrandparents met at the original Palace Hotel before it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Besides a short stint in New York City for grad school, California is the only…
Go back a few months and a thousand miles to Washington, D.C., and I might have naively told you that “Welcome to Miami” was either a greeting or an endearingly cheesy rap song by Will Smith. Oh, how wrong I was. “Welcome to Miami” isn’t a greeting. It’s a commiseration…
It’s pretty much inevitable that you will face at least one hurricane during your time in Miami. From June 1 to November 30, Floridians are basically always on edge about when the next storm might strike. And thanks to climate change and global warming, hurricanes over the coming years will…
For a variety of reasons, my wife and I don’t live in the United States. But her parents are in Miami, and by the force of some maternal magnetism, we’ve had both of our children at South Miami Hospital. When our daughter was born in 2016, we exploited the generosity…
You haven’t truly lived in Miami until you’ve seen an iguana in the wild, had your car towed while legally parked, and paid an insane high-four-figure deposit to whatever shell company owns your condo unit. Luckily, it’s extremely possible to hit all three of these milestones during your first week…
Almost since its inception, Miami has been an experiment, a sweaty petri dish bubbling with excitement and potential, always threatening to implode. In its 123-year history, the city has produced several manmade islands, the country’s premier art show, a “robocall kingpin,” the South Beach Diet, countless corruption scandals, and even…
If you want to live in a city with robust mass transit, there’s always New York. Metro areas like San Francisco and D.C. make ditching car ownership easy. Hell, even Los Angeles has been working on expanding its rail service by using a mix of heavy- and light-rail lines, and…
Pedro Rene Gonzalez had been sitting in Miami’s Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami) awaiting trial on weapons charges since December 18, 2018. Despite languishing in jail for eight months, Gonzalez never made it to trial: The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) today confirmed to New Times…
