U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton stood today in Miami’s Freedom Tower — a building famous for housing Cuban refugees fleeing political oppression — and praised the election of the neofascist wannabe dictator of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. Bolton, who also labeled Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela the “Troika of Terror,”…
Over the past few months, former President Barack Obama has endorsed hundreds of Democratic candidates in the November midterms elections. None were running for municipal positions in Florida. Yet a flyer circulating in North Miami Beach claims Obama has endorsed five candidates vying for mayor and the city commission.
Franca says Beach Towing demanded she pay in cash when she went to retrieve her car, even though Miami Beach’s Towing Bill of Rights requires tow companies to accept at least two forms of payment. Franca was charged $140 for the hookup, $6 for the .4 mile Beach Towing dragged her car, $30 for the labor, $35 for an “admin charge,” and $2 in tax, all in cash.
For months, Rick Scott has faced scorching criticism over Florida’s red tide crisis, which has brought heaps of dead fish to the state’s shorelines and shuttered its beaches because people literally can’t breathe. Thanks to his years of environmental deregulation and budget slashing, the term-limited governor has been branded “Red…
City of Miami finally sent out a standard operating procedure detailing the program — and while the policy itself does not contain the language Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina promised, he assured New Times that the department is following through on his word.
The United States jails more of its citizens than any nation on Earth. Florida’s incarceration rate is higher than any country’s. So it would seem logical to ratchet down the War on Drugs, demilitarize local police departments, and persuade local cops to arrest fewer people.
Twenty-three-year-old Juvon Simon was at his apartment in Florida City when cops showed up on the afternoon of May 30. According to a witness, Simon ran inside, shut the door, and then dropped dead; a preliminary investigation found that Florida City Police Officer Frantz Hardy was responsible for firing two shots through the door, killing Simon almost instantly.
Climate change will hurt working-class and poor communities the hardest. Monsoons and absurd levels of heat are already battering huge portions of India, for example. Closer to home, much has already been written about “climate gentrification” in Miami — that is, the process by which wealthier people are buying…
With the election less than a week away, Florida for the next few days becomes the epicenter of campaigning by presidents past and present. Donald Trump hits the Hertz Arena in Fort Myers tonight at 7 p.m. A large crowd is expected and cops are warning people to…
“Dumbo” is what one Broward County schoolteacher called an 8-year-old student with autism and ADHD, according to a lawsuit filed in Florida’s Southern District Court earlier this month by the boy’s mother.
In the midst of the revelry, a Sigma Chi frat bro bit off a guy’s ear.
If you’re looking for someone who will legalize weed, here’s a list of all Florida candidates up for election this November who will fight for your right to light up.
It’s just before 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in October, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is glad-handing with constituents at the Shenandoah Park recreation center. He shakes hands with a couple of uniformed cops and plants a kiss on an older woman’s cheek. Dressed in a trim navy suit, he…
On a recent Friday afternoon, Diana Androsova walked into the Halloween Megastore at NE 61st Street and Biscayne Boulevard. She grabbed a couple of items for her costume and went to the register, where a young man began ringing up her bill. Standing at the register, Androsova decided against buying an exaggerated pair of fake breasts along with the rest of her costume and put them aside.
The slew of unsolicited text messages from the Faith and Freedom Coalition pissed off at least one Miami resident enough to file a class action lawsuit against the nonprofit, since technically, text messages like the ones FFC spammed Florida residents with are illegal. Wijesinha, a registered Democrat, says he has no idea how the Faith and Freedom Coalition even got his number in the first place.
Goran Dragic will forever be linked to LeBron James in the minds of Miami Heat fans. And that’s likely not a positive thing. When the Heat acquired Dragic from the Phoenix Suns in 2015, it was part of an effort to quickly pick up the pieces,…
Teachers will get a raise if MIami-Dade voters approve a referendum that would allow the county to raise $232 million a year through an increase in property taxes over the next four years.
While Sayoc’s arrest yesterday focused attention on the Sunshine State, South Florida has a history of of residents who hatch half-assed bomb threats — and of anti-Castro Cuban exiles who actually made good on their plans:
“FPL will get what they deserve, and it will be worse than 9/11,” Sayoc said. When the representative on the phone said he should not be making threats like that, Sayoc said he doesn’t make threats; he makes promises.
Social media posts show that Sayoc, whose grandmother’s last name was Altieri and went by Cesar Altieri in his online profiles, was a big Trump supporter who loathed the Clintons and George Soros. Videos on one of Sayoc’s Facebook profiles show him at Trump rallies and posing with Michael the Black Man.
Friday, federal officers arrested a man outside an AutoZone store in Plantation in connection with several pipe bombs that were sent to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Pipe bombs have been delivered to critics of President Trump across the United States in the last few days. So far, 11 have turned up addressed to the homes or offices of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Robert De Niro, Hillary Clinton, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, U.S. Senator…
