Douglas Kincaid was walking his border collie, Sasha, through his Normandy Isles neighborhood Sunday night when something that looked like a wolf came sprinting across the street. In a flash, the animal locked its jaws around Sasha.
Over the past few years, Miami Beach has been featured in film projects including The Last Resort, Bad Boys for Life, and, randomly, a Jonas Brothers comeback video. But with Florida’s tax incentive project a thing of the past — and states such as Georgia now attracting the lion’s share of major productions — Miami Beach officials worry the city has stopped being taken seriously as a filming location.
It’s best to start tuning out CNN and MSNBC until the cable news networks stop enabling President Donald Trump’s gaslighting of America.
Melissa Lopez and her boyfriend were at a Miami Art Week event in December 2017 when she stopped to check her phone for details about the next event they wanted to attend. When she looked up, a Miami cop was hauling away her boyfriend.
Remember the Miami Dolphins? You know, the football team that plays in that spaceship-looking building off the highway? Yeah, they’re back doing football-related exercises in preparation for big-boy preseason football games that’ll get underway against the Atlanta Falcons August 8.
Donald Trump’s many defenders in Florida — Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and Matt Gaetz, et cetera — are currently twisting themselves into pretzel-knots to avoid admitting the Preiisident’s tweets, words, and general demeanor are brazenly racist and dangerous. He told four congresswomen of color to leave…
This past July 1, Florida legalized hemp — the part of the cannabis plant that isn’t psychoactive and can be used to make rope, paper, all sorts of food, and CBD oil. But the new law is also leading to a less expected consequence: It’s changing the way cops conduct drug enforcement.
What’s striking about Dr. Grordbort’s (say that five times fast) is how similar it feels to any other virtual-reality shooter available on the Oculus Rift or PlayStation VR. Using the console’s control wand as a gun, you point and shoot at enemies who appear through your Magic Tech goggles. This all feels familiar. What’s different though, is how Magic Leap uses the environment around you as a stage.
When an Amnesty International delegation visited the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in April, there were at least 97 children who had no one to care for them in the United States. In a comment that stunned the Amnesty group, the Homestead facility’s then-program director Leslie Wood said it was better for kids like them to be deported than placed with someone for the purpose of keeping them in the country because they might be trafficked.
With its new rule eliminating asylum for most migrants at the southwestern border with Mexico, the Trump administration has bolted shut one of the few remaining legal entryways for Venezuelans seeking safety in the Unites States.
Would you like to see all Miami’s favorite sports stars make themselves look 30 years older and possibly-maybe turn over all their personal data to the Russians at the same time? Well boy, do we have an app and a story for you! By now you’ve heard of FaceApp, the…
Miami is dealing with another round of political death threats. Last year, Miamian Cesar Sayoc infamously sent pipe bombs to a host of Democratic activists and lawmakers. Then, this past April, a Broward County man, John Kless, was arrested for leaving voicemails threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and Reps. Eric Swalwell, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
Court records paint an ugly picture of Vernon’s aggressive and often violent behavior.
A new scientific study links nitrogen to the mysterious disease killing Florida’s coral reefs.
Some teenagers have languished for months behind the tall chain-link fences of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, the nation’s only for-profit detention center for migrant kids. But in a report released Wednesday, Amnesty International says children should be detained only as a last resort…
South Florida’s high ranking when it comes to prosecuting child sex trafficking might come as a surprise given the district’s controversial deal-making with Jeffrey Epstein, brokered by former Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. Nationwide, such prosecutions have plunged over the past two years despite overall federal prosecutions for crimes spiking under the Trump administration.
Scientists are testing cyanobacteria in the Caloosahatchee River to better understand how harmful algar blooms develop and why.
Recently, Miami sports teams have made some high-profile breaks from players and coaches who were once thought to be saviors. Gone but not forgotten, these castoffs have new chances to prove their ex-Miami teams wrong.
Just after 3:30 p.m. May 27, 2018, 29-year-old Yoinis Cruz Peña was driving his black 2008 Kawasaki north on the Rickenbacker Causeway at high speed. His wife, Yailen Gonzalez, was on the back. They slammed into a retaining wall, and Cruz Peña died.
A video shared this week by a local urban environmentalist shows a seemingly well-fed and fully grown coyote wandering the streets of El Portal. Police have advised residents to keep their pets safe indoors.
Former Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller’s reputation was already in shambles before today. Miller was the communications director for Trump’s 2016 campaign and was in line to become White House press secretary but ultimately resigned after he admitted to having an affair with a Miami-based Trump staffer, A.J. Delgado, and fathering a lovechild with her.
This past spring, activists were unable to stop the Florida Republican Party from passing Senate Bill 168, a demonstrably racist “sanctuary city” ban that was originally pitched by an anti-immigrant extremist group. And so, a group of nine civil-rights organizations has teamed up with the City of South Miami to instead try to take down the new law in federal court.
