Miami Renters End the Holidays Hundreds of Dollars in Debt, Study Says
A new study from the real estate website RentCafé found the average renter in Miami ends the holiday season $300 in debt.
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Mark the Shark Grabs Bird by the Neck and Shakes It in Video That Angers Animal Lovers
For a brief, weird moment in 2017, the notorious Miami shark hunter Mark “the Shark” Quartiano and conservationists were on the same side. After a couple of local fisher-bros filmed themselves dragging a shark behind a boat until the poor fish was in tatters and then proudly sent the video to Quartiano, the infamous fisherman…
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.
Miami-Dade Cop Accused of Stalking Girlfriend’s Tiger-Owning Ex-Husband
Cops across the state have been repeatedly accused of misusing Florida’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID), which logs motorists’ addresses, driver’s license photos, plate numbers, and other personal info. Sometimes they stalk ex-lovers. Other times, they just bother people they don’t like.
Fort Lauderdale Cop Says He Was Fired for Being Friends With Meek Mill and Rick Ross
According to Jacques, Mill and Ross were friends who occasionally paid him for security services and consulting.
Royal Caribbean Knew Zipline Company Was Dangerous Long Before a Newlywed Was Tragically Killed
On her 59th birthday, September 3, 2015, Alyda Chimene departed the Port of Miami on Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas and headed ashore for a ziplining excursion in Roatan, Honduras. Chimene, who is from Austin, Texas, thought the tour would be safe, since – as she would later state…
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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.
Raped by a Student, Teacher Could Receive $3 Million
It’s all in a claims bill.
John Leguizamo’s New Chess Movie Is “a Love Letter to Miami Jackson Senior High”
For one day only, a carpeted, fourth-floor ballroom at the Hialeah Park racetrack transformed into the site of a ’90s high-school chess competition.
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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…
Miami Filmmaker Highlights the Remarkable Adaptability of Ordinary Florida Lizards
Lizards have even adapted to breathing underwater.
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…
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After Dolphins Miss Playoffs, Stephen Ross Looks Like a Man Who Is Going to Fire Everyone
Ross was visibly over it as the Dolphins lost.
Eight Miami New Times Stories That Got Results in 2018
Despite budget cuts and taunts of “fake news,” local journalists continued to churn out great work in 2018.
Miami’s Five Craziest Stories of Public Corruption and Malfeasance in 2018
Here’s an age-old question: Is Miami actually more corrupt than other cities, or do Florida’s fantastic public-records laws just let people find out more about their elected officials? We’re still not sure about that one. But 2018 wound up being yet another year in which Magic City politics drove us…
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Trump-Tied Evangelist Funded Fontainebleau Pool Attendant’s Miami Beach Real-Estate Deal
Jerry Falwell Jr., the evangelist son of world-famous Southern Baptist minister Jerry Falwell Sr., runs a hardcore-Christian university and often acts as the public face for the American evangelical movement. That’s why it seemed so hypocritical when he endorsed Donald Trump — a sexually rapacious avatar of American greed, racism…
Miami Beach Commissioners Ask Stores to Please Stop Selling Dead Sharks in Jars
Hoping to pick up a tiny dead shark in a jar for someone special this Christmas? Or perhaps a baby alligator skull? You better not tarry! City commissioners in Miami Beach last week passed a resolution asking local merchants to stop selling these truly bizarre souvenirs ASAP. This was necessary…
Miami Dolphins Fans Hate Players Paying for Sex, Love Donald Trump
A survey of 1,500 NFL fans conducted by TickTock and provided to the Washington Examiner focuses on how some NFL fans hold athletes to a higher standard than others do. And Dolphins fans pop up in most of the fields as the fan base least likely to be the life of a party or the group you want to invite to Christmas dinner.
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Integrity-Challenged Mayor Chastises Miami Herald in Pathetic Letter
Carlos Gimenez has not been a good Miami-Dade County mayor. He will forever be remembered as the leader who agreed to cooperate with Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation police. He also brazenly vetoed the creation of an independent police-oversight board. And he definitely has some ethical issues.Yet…
Florida Lawmakers File Anti-“Sanctuary” Bills That Would Force Cooperation With ICE
Republican state Sen. Aaron Bean has a ridiculous idea.
Protect Confederate Memorials, Says Black State Rep. Mike Hill
In public spaces across Florida, at least 30 monuments pay tribute to Confederate soldiers. Many of the memorials glorify members of the renegade army that declared war on the United States as “uncrowned heroes” or “a noble band” and celebrating their “dauntless valor.” It would become illegal to remove any of those…
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TV Finance “Guru” Charged With Conning Floridians as Part of $1.2 Billion Ponzi Scheme
Jordan E. Goodman markets himself as “America’s Money Answers Man.” He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and even ABC’s the View. He spent 18 years as a Wall Street columnist for Money magazine. For three years, he was also allegedly telling people to invest in a Ponzi scheme…