In 2015, an underage Miami teen came forward to tell a harrowing story: She said she’d essentially been kidnapped by a Hialeah Police officer, locked in a windowless room in the police station, and forced to strip off her clothes while the cop, Jesus “Jesse” Menocal Jr., allegedly touched himself through his pants.
The day before Father’s Day in 2017, Ramon Bueno was driving through an intersection when a Miami police car driven by Officer Lucas Rodrigues blew through a red light and slammed into Bueno’s driver’s side door. The impact was so powerful that the two cars spun out of control and crashed into a car stopped at the light.
The Miami Heat headed into Thursday night’s NBA Draft holding the 13th overall selection, a newly acquired second-round pick (44th overall pick) they acquired in a Wednesday trade from the Atlanta Hawks, and an obvious need for a young, athletic player. With Dwyane Wade retired, bloated contracts galore, and little to no salary-cap room, the Heat needed an exciting player who could contribute right away.
Lewis Masotti loved playing golf. He has competed at a professional level for many years, participated in charity games, and even lived on the Madison Greens golf course in Royal Palm Beach for 18 years. But after a cruise vacation gone wrong, the 85-year-old might never pick up a putter again.
The Magic City Innovation District is already deeply controversial in Miami — a group of rich developers, including one guy indicted in the national college-bribery scandal — want to put a $1 billion luxury complex in the middle of Little Haiti, one of Miami’s most historic immigrant communities.
Florida residents currently stand to bear the largest cost burden for sea-level rise and climate adaptation. Twenty-three Florida counties face costs of more than $1 billion for seawall expenses, according to the Center for Climate Integrity.
A new report challenges the Trump administration’s narrative that migrant families aren’t showing up to court.
By the time they arrived in Homestead, the migrant children had already taken an unwitting tour through American detention facilities with nicknames such as “la hielera” — “the ice box” — and “la perrera” — “the dog kennel.” Some had been separated from their parents at the southern border, usually after begging for a goodbye that guards refused to allow.
As the planet heats up, the water surrounding Miami Beach is becoming warmer. And as temperatures rise, the Atlantic Ocean has turned into the perfect breeding ground for sargassum seaweed, a type of floating algae that’s now invaded coastlines in South Florida and the Caribbean.
The Trump era has been a gold rush for those in the business of locking up immigrants, none more so than the Boca Raton-based GEO Group. Boasting almost $500 million in contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the private-prison firm has made a pretty penny from the new war on immigrants…
Miami sports fans are a proud, eclectic, cocky bunch. You know them you see ’em. You could take fans from each team, dress them in plain white shirts, line them up, and nine out of ten times quickly point out the ones who root for the South Florida squads. Local teams’ fans emit a unique, shall we say, eau de Miami.
President Donald Trump’s first 2020 campaign rally in Orlando last night was little more than a rehash of his 2016 greatest hits. He stood at a lectern and let various English-adjacent sentences tumble from his swollen, bass-like mouth. Various neofascist groups showed up to chant stuff outside, and TV news channels ran wall-to-wall coverage of Trump babbling and saying “fake news” over and over again.
A jury late last night convicted former North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda of one misdemeanor count of culpable negligence after he shot Charles Kinsey, an unarmed behavioral therapist who was filmed begging cops not to shoot him, in the leg in 2016.
In February 2016, state inmate Jimmy Jones had been temporarily transferred to the South Florida Reception Center, a prison facility west of Doral, for a medical visit. His mom came to visit February 20, and they met outside in a courtyard known as Visiting Park.
June 26 and 27, a whopping 20 Democratic candidates for president will take the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts just north of downtown Miami in the first debates of the 2020 election cycle. They will bicker, slam Donald Trump, and almost certainly embarrass themselves by…
As of mere days ago, it appeared David Hogg and Kyle Kashuv — two survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre who became activists on opposite sides of the political spectrum — were about to attend Harvard University together.
If you spent Father’s Day emptying out your flooded car with a bucket, there’s more bad news this morning: Meteorologists with the National Weather Service are predicting even more rain and flooding. The Miami metro area is expected to get 1 to 2 more inches of rain today — and thunderstorms are in the forecast every day this week, until at least next Sunday.
Nearing the midway point of the season, it’s quite apparent that the Miami Marlins could make history, and not the kind you put on a commemorative baseball and hand out to fans to remember. The Marlins’ attendance is atrocious. It is unspeakably bad, even for a franchise that’s become a…
South Florida for years has been a hotbed for medical fraud, and the U.S. Department of Justice has been cracking down on various schemes through its intimidatingly named Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Last June, the DOJ charged more than 100 people with health-care fraud and other related grievances — and now a South Florida pain clinic operator is the latest to get some serious prison time.
Friday, June 14, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state’s deeply controversial anti-“sanctuary city” bill, SB 168, into law. He did so in the blood-red Florida Panhandle, and there were so many fans who showed up that DeSantis reportedly had to find a larger venue.
February 5, the private security firm G4S Solutions — a for-profit company founded in Coral Gables that transports inmates for the government — donated $10,000 to the Florida Democratic Party. The money came through G4S’s political action committee.
Since joining the Miami Heat in 1995, Pat Riley has proven he’s a fantastic coach, general manager, president, and team ambassador. He has also shown he always has the bigger picture in mind regardless of how hopeless things mights seem.
