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.
Despite its many zeros, Venezuela’s new 50,000-bolívar won’t go far.
Having failed at a previous suicide attempt, South Florida Army veteran J.C. Ortiz was determined to succeed the second time. It was 2009 and he had just returned from his second tour of Iraq, where he had experienced a grueling 15 months of continual combat. Four years earlier, after another 18 months of war, he’d begun suffering from PTSD. He would become addicted to opioids.
As the organizers hosted a news conference promoting the festival, prominent local LGBTQ organizations including SAVE, South Florida’s oldest LGBTQ-rights group, announced they had serious concerns about the event and who stands to profit from it.
Four fishermen say the Coast Guard trapped them at sea for a month. They are from Jamaica but were fishing near the Haitian coast when they say American forces destroyed their vessel and trapped them on an uncovered boat deck for a month.
On May 30, a Palm Beach home forfeited by convicted money launderer and former national treasurer of Venezuela Alejandro Andrade was quietly auctioned off by Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The home was purchased by Matthew Womble, cofounder of the Connecticut-based investment management firm EverWatch Capital.
Century-old Australian pines occupying the median on Miami Beach’s landmark Pine Tree Drive will be pruned this month, in the interest of public safety.
Amigos Mini Market in Hialeah advertises that it sells soda, snacks, tobacco, and “much more.” Apparently, “much more” included a few baggies of weed inside the cash register, according to Hialeah Police.
When Miami cops screw up, civilians are typically the ones who wind up getting hurt. But in a previously unrevealed incident from January 4, an utterly boneheaded move wound up injuring one of Miami’s finest.
It’s difficult to comprehend how much plastic is used only once. About 40 percent of the 448 million tons produced each year is intended to be disposable, according to National Geographic, and what doesn’t get recycled or dumped in a landfill often ends up in the ocean.
June is Pride Month. The 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub, which occurred three years ago today, killed 49 people at an event held for gay Latino men. Yet Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — or someone in his administration — decided it was necessary this year to scrub mentions of the LGBTQ community from the state’s yearly Pulse Memorial Day proclamation.
There are two types of sports fans: those who back local teams, and everyone else. Very few people fall into a gray area. Chalk it up to the not-us crowd hating us because they ain’t us or to Miamians’ sense of us-against-the-world mentality drilled into us because of all the UM Canes hate over the years, Marlins jokes, and, more recently, Heat-fan slander, but that’s how it feels — them and us.
Miami is, mythically, a place where immigrants from around the world come to work, save money, and build wealth. In reality, though, it appears the local and national economies are so unbelievably broken that people are mostly coming here to work themselves into the ground.
Ever since the Julia Tuttle Causeway became an unwitting encampment for sex offenders more than a decade ago, Miami-Dade officials have been trying to shoo the group away from the rest of civilization.
Miami New Times‘ annual Best of Miami issue is live online today. Here are our picks for this year’s best athletes and sports personalities in Miami.
The Heat should sign 42-year-old Vince Carter, who has already announced that next season will be his own personal version of the #OneLastDance retirement tour Dwyane Wade had last season.
Within the last 30 days, lawyers have alleged that children inside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children are miserable. The Trump administration responded by cutting away the kids’ already paltry recess time, English classes, and even legal aid.
Each year, Miami New Times rounds up the best places, people, and things to do in the Magic City. Here’s the rundown of our favorite things to do around South Florida.
Politician-shaped asshole Walter “Mike” Hill is a bizarre and upsetting dude. The state representative is from an extremely right-wing section of Florida — District 1 of the House, AKA the part of the Panhandle that borders Alabama on two sides.
Last month, Miami Beach’s internal auditing department completed a report vetting the city’s two major towing companies: Beach Towing and Tremont. The audit should be of great interest to residents and visitors, because the local towing industry has long been accused of malfeasance and general clownery. But the public might never see it.
The Miami Dolphins and Reshad Jones seem to have made up, if only for the kids. And by “kids” we mean “trade leverage,” because reports say the Dolphins and Jones have a mutual desire to part ways if at all possible before the season begins.
