While fellow passengers record on their cell phones, a young man with a waxed mustache struggles with three Miami-Dade Police officers on an American Airlines plane sitting on the tarmac at Miami International Airport.
Barry Berler entered an Aventura Police Department station in 2014 to ask for help locating his then-missing sister-in-law. Instead, he says, he wound up beaten, jailed, and in the hospital with serious injuries.
Michael A. Needham has been described in various news profiles over the years as “too conservative” for GOP stalwarts such as former House Speaker John Boehner, as the Republican Party’s “loathed ideological commissar,” and as “a huge asshole.” For years, Needham chaired the Heritage Action Fund, the lobbying wing of…
Is it possible to be so angry about racial politics in the workplace that you give yourself a heart attack? A lawsuit filed this week makes that case: Opa-locka Police Officer Alexander Hernandez, a self-described “white Hispanic” male, claims he was so upset upon hearing that a “black American” officer was being promoted to major over him that the news quite literally gave him a heart attack.
Saturday and Sunday, powerboat and personal watercraft professionals from around the world will make their way to Key Biscayne to face off in a massive televised water race. The 13-round event will be the first major race at Miami Marine Stadium since the graffitied venue closed in 1992.
Looking at an Instagram collage that featured Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz smiling for a selfie above a photo of a handcuffed woman on the ground, Civilian Investigative Panel member Courtney Omega had to double check his rank. “This is a captain?” she said during a Tuesday meeting of the…
Breaking news: The Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers do not particularly care for each other. If that fact wasn’t already confirmed before the Heats’s disappointing 128-108 loss to the Sixers Thursday night, it certainly is now. There are intense playoff games; then there are games that border on a Jason Statham movie.
If you were to strip away all the trappings of President Donald Trump’s inherited wealth — the planes, the superglued combover, the spray tan — it’s not hard to imagine our nation’s president could have easily wound up filtering down to the Keys and living a life of low-rent hucksterism. He loves the Florida coastline!
Florida governor, former white-collar criminal, and U.S. Senate candidate Rick Scott seems to have tiptoed extremely, oh-so-perilously close to breaking federal anti-corruption laws earlier this year, and, depending upon which government ethics experts you contact, he might have outright broken Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) law.
It looks like 4/20 will be a big day for marijuana in Miami Beach. The island’s first cannabis dispensary will open on South Beach tomorrow, just over a year after city commissioners agreed on four zones where marijuana establishments would be allowed to set up shop.
Few pockets of Miami-Dade are more hellishly clogged with hair-rending traffic than West Kendall. So passions ran hot when Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez held a town hall there yesterday. Fresh off a trip to China, where Gimenez cooled on his dreams of a new high-tech bus system, the county mayor was…
As an educator with more than 30 years in the field, Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa has kept a depressing tally of the increasing number of Miami-Dade children plagued by gun violence. In 2016, more than 30 minors were fatally shot. Last December alone, a 2-year-old, three 16-year-olds, and a 17-year-old lost their lives to guns.
From early Reefer Madness panic to the ’70s hippie weed cult that took over Star Island to the glory days of ’80s smuggling in Everglades City, Florida has a long, deep, and complex relationship with marijuana — as New Times explores in this week’s cover story. Though Florida has finally legalized medical pot, full-blown, Colorado-style recreational dope still feels a long way away in the Sunshine State.
If you work your way to the food court of Concourse D at Miami International Airport, you’ll find a narrow corridor running alongside a TGI Fridays. Most days, few people enter the small strip — it’s dark and a dead end — but if you do, you’ll see a two-and-a-half-story public installation called Años Continuos by Miami artist Maria Martinez-Cañas…
As payday lenders from across America converge on Miami this week for the industry’s annual conference, they’ll be greeted at the airport by signs protesting their arrival.
Many NFL teams have made regrettable draft picks, but if you ask Miami Dolphins fans, no team has made more draft blunders than their team. For as long as Fins fans can remember, the NFL Draft has represented an annual shot of hope that predictably comes with months of disappointing chasers.
Just four days before he was sworn into office as a North Miami Beach commissioner, Anthony DeFillipo was cruising north on Collins Avenue through Surfside in a white Buick SUV when a local cop pulled him over for a broken taillight. The officer quickly noticed a “strong smell of marijuana,” according to a police report. He asked whether the 41-year-old property manager had any pot.
Florida’s fast-developing medical marijuana market is little explored or understood. Beginning today, Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach are partnering with a national cannabis information company, Herban Planet, to bring you more about product-specific dispensaries, delivery services, local farms, attorneys, and more.
Today, legal marijuana flourishes in fields and greenhouses from Homestead to Tallahassee. Every day, new cannabis clinics hang green neon crosses in their windows, while millions of dollars pour in from global investors looking to get into the Mary Jane business. Weed has finally gone legit in Florida. So it’s…
Festivals draw droves of music lovers to parks and fairgrounds across the nation for a variety of reasons: the hours of live music, the feeling of community, the outdoor ambiance. And, yeah, some revelers show up to get high with the beats.
Nearly two years after a North Miami cop shot an innocent, unarmed black man lying on the ground with his arms in the air, the city’s police department is still reeling. The cop who shot Charles Kinsey, who was just trying to help an autistic man that bystanders mistakenly through had a weapon, has been charged with two felonies and the North Miami Police chief was fired.
No one wants to get anywhere near Donald Trump right now. His former aides and confidantes keep flipping to help the federal investigation into his campaign’s Russia ties. He can’t buy an attorney to defend him in the wake of the FBI’s raid of Michael Cohen’s office. Post-Stormy Daniels, even Melania keeps swatting his hands away.
