The Most Important Miami Immigration Stories in 2018

If Florida’s new Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis is to be believed, immigrants are flooding into Florida, taking our jobs at gunpoint, crashing busloads of sick children into our emergency rooms to get free healthcare, and driving around town lopping people’s heads off with axes. Florida’s retirees are trembling…

Miami New Times’ Five Wildest Crimes of 2018

Hey, uh, a neo-Nazi was stopped within minutes of burning down a Miami Beach apartment complex and causing an international mass-death incident. It would be pretty hard to argue that a crime in Miami this year was more insane than that one. Or maybe not. Crime in this town is so utterly bizarre and inexplicable that the public tends to forget bonkers events mere days after they happen.

New Times’ Best Local Criminal-Justice and Police Stories in 2018

On one hand, some Miami-area law-enforcement agencies are transparently corrupt, averse to public accountability, and face virtually zero consequences when they do racist stuff. On the other hand: Some Aventura cops just went viral for dancing at the mall! All is clearly well, good, and supernormal in Miami cop-land…

It’s Time for Stephen Ross to Let Dan Marino Run the Miami Dolphins

With the Dolphins season dying a merciful injury-riddled death on Sunday when the Dolphins face the Buffalo Bills, owner Stephen Ross has some important offseason decisions to make. Ross must decide if current vice president Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Adam Gase should continue steering a Miami Dolphins ship that’s…

Bill Would Require Florida Cops to Get Warrants Before Monitoring Your Cell Data

Smartphones in 2018 are necessary, ubiquitous devices that function as GPS location trackers, cameras that follow us into the bathroom, private-communication-logging devices, business computers, and, let’s be honest, porn-streaming screens. Yet there are still bizarrely few laws banning cops from swiping highly personal phone data without your consent or just cause.

Local Radio Host Whines Because Dunkin’ Donuts Closes a Few Minutes Early on Christmas, Suffers Tweet Storm

Few, if any, stores should be open on major federal holidays, including Christmas Day. Retail and food-service chains don’t pay workers nearly enough to justify ripping them from friends and families on, say, Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, or Christmas. If you’ve ever worked food service on a holiday — or sat through holiday gatherings while a loved one was gone working — you know how much this sucks.

The Five 2018 South Florida Sports People of the Year

As we near the end of 2018, it’s time to look back and reflect on the sports year that was. Although it hasn’t been the most memorable of years for Miami, there were a handful of stars worth singling out. These five 2018 sports people of the year made an otherwise unspectacular 2018…

Most Popular Miami Longform Stories of 2018

This year, more than a million readers learned the full story behind the accusations against the late rapper XXXTentacion. Weeks before he was murdered, reporter Tarpley Hitt was granted an exclusive interview with the controversial artist, in which he said, “Would I change anything about my journey? Fuck, no.” There was…