Robert Zangrillo, a prominent Miami investor and real-estate developer, was charged today as part of a sweeping national college bribery case that has ensnared major college coaches and at least two Hollywood actresses. Prosecutors today alleged Zangrillo illegally paid what amounted to a $50,000 bribe to get his daughter into…
At the 1972 Democratic National Convention, a woman named Madeline Davis called for something new: The party, she said, should include gay rights in its platform. Davis, the first out lesbian delegate at a major party convention, declared that gay people were “here to put an end to our fears.”…
In March 2017, Massage Envy therapist David Egusquiza was arrested after a woman told police he had sexually assaulted her during a massage at the company’s Coral Gables location. But four months earlier, management at the spa had ignored another woman’s report of being assaulted by the same masseur, a new…
Irish mixed martial arts megastar Conor McGregor was arrested in Miami Beach today for allegedly smashing someone’s phone at the Fontainebleau resort. According to arrest documents obtained by New Times, he is being charged with two felony counts of strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief.
Throughout the 2016 Republican presidential primary, former Florida governor and current Miami businessman Jeb Bush was painted as the sensible, reasonable, and less transparently corrupt GOP alternative to Donald Trump. But it turns out that folks tied to Bush also apparently enjoy bouts of law-breaking…
The Democratic Party Monday chose Milwaukee as the site of its 2020 convention, snubbing Miami. That’s right. Milwaukee. The choice was expected despite last-minute efforts from former Miami Beach mayor and gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine and Democratic Party fundraiser Chris Korge.
Last fall, retired Miami Police Sgt. Nestor Garcia dropped by the department’s Internal Affairs office to read up on a case filed against Capt. Javier Ortiz, the former police union leader known for exploits like harassing a citizen online, calling Tamir Rice a “thug,” and bragging about his lengthy IA…
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio appears to have shared fake information over the past month as part of an attempt to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, according to a scathing report published over the weekend by the New York Times. Rubio blamed Maduro’s forces for burning a bunch of American “aid” trucks…
Cam Wake always represented the Miami Dolphins will class and integrity, even when everything around him was on fire and crashing to the ground. Wake deserved better than the past decade’s Dolphins, but he never complained or asked out.
Florida is closer than ever to legalizing recreational, adult-use marijuana. That’s according to State Sen. Randolph Bracy and State Rep. Michael Grieco, who have introduced new measures aimed at placing the legalization of recreational pot in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election.
Rakontur Productions’ new Miami steroid documentary, Screwball, hits theaters on March 29. We’d like to say we’re promoting the film simply because it’s an absolutely hilarious, only-in-Miami crime-caper, black comedy, and piece of journalism all rolled into one. But there is more to it. Though all that is true, we are…
A former Venezuelan vice president and five others, including three men with South Florida connections, were charged today with moving tens of thousands of dollars in cash from Venezuela to the United States in violation of federal sanctions and a drug-smuggling law. Tareck Zaidan El Aissami served as vice president…
The Miami Herald this morning broke a doozy of a story: Li “Cindy” Yang, the woman who founded the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida — where Patriots owner Robert Kraft got caught allegedly paying for sex from trafficked women — watched the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl with Donald Trump.
It’s the worst kept secret in the NFL — nobody wants to be featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” the wildly popular behind-the-scenes training camp series that airs on the network each summer. It’s every team’s worst nightmare and they’ll do anything to get out of it. But the Miami Dolphins should beg…
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting this morning that a Boca Raton legislator, State Sen. Kevin Rader, has filed a bill to study moving the Florida capital from Tallahassee to Orlando. The two-page measure — and these babies are never two pages — suggests things like ease of travel and economic impact…
In 2017, Florida lawmakers bizarrely spent a bunch of time passing a bill forcing the state to display the phrase “In God We Trust” in public schools. As it turns out, this was just the beginning of a pro-Christian legislative push in Florida: State lawmakers — namely Jacksonville State Rep. Kim…
In the past year, Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doral has lost a whopping $26 million in value. Hotel executives have blamed the president’s politics: Liberal Northeasterners would rather vacation elsewhere, and organizers for NASCAR and PGA Tour events simply don’t want the bad PR.
Nouma Raja, the former Palm Beach Gardens cop who killed local drummer Corey Jones in October 2015 as Jones was waiting to get his car towed off the highway, was found guilty this morning of manslaughter and attempted first-degree murder in a South Florida courtroom…
It was the happy ending heard ’round the world. When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft visited Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, two Chinese women gave him a massage. According to the billionaire’s arrest report, the women, aged 45 and 58, followed up with a hand job, which the Jupiter Police tell us is…
In November 2016, 80 percent of Miami Beach residents voted to legalize medical marijuana. More than two years later, the city has only a single dispensary — and now one commissioner wants to prevent others from opening.
North Beach could become home to up to 624 “micro-units” — apartments as small as 375 square feet, or a little bigger than two parking spaces put together — as part of city commissioners’ latest plan to revitalize the sleepy area. During today’s Land Use and Development meeting, committee members approved…
Conditions at Miami’s major Immigration and Customs Enforcement office — just north of the Miami-Dade County line in Miramar, Florida — continue to seem dire. Immigrant-rights groups have complained about conditions at the Miramar office for years. Since Trump took office, crowds have swelled and immigrants say they’re often…
