Last week, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv visited a gun range with his dad and practiced shooting an AR-15. He later posted about the experience on Twitter, where he uploaded a video of himself firing at a silhouette target.
When Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992, the Category 5 storm destroyed much of Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Miami, a prison that houses 1,000 inmates near Zoo Miami. So whenever serious storms have threatened since then, the feds have evacuated inmates. In 2004, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) moved inmates out as Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne moved in.
When a group of Coral Springs Police officers rushed to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High this past February following reports of an active shooter, one officer says he arrived to find Broward Sheriff’s deputies taking cover behind cars and a tree — despite knowing that shooter Nikolas Cruz was still inside firing on students.
Miami’s Democratic Socialists of America brought together former Florida state Sen. Dwight Bullard, United We Dream activist Maria Bilbao, National Nurses United representative Millicent Bowerbank, and Miami midwife Jamarah Amani, who phoned in from a live birth, to discuss a health-care plan that would work for everyone and how to push for it in Florida.
Of 193 countries on the planet, only a handful do not offer paid job leave for new parents: Suriname, Papua New Guinea, a few island nations in the Pacific — and the United States, the richest country in the world and only “developed” nation on the list. In light of how many other countries have solved this problem, fixing the issue should be easy.
As the white Chevy Tahoe hurtled toward Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Broward schools Superintendent Robert Runcie jammed an iPhone to his ear. Between a never-ending stream of calls from reporters and school staffers and politicians asking questions he couldn’t yet answer, he dialed Sheriff Scott Israel. Just a few hours…
Miami New Times’ managing editor has won a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award in non-deadline reporting for his story “Hooked: How a Floating Bale of Cocaine Led to the Florida Keys’ Worst Murder in Decades.”
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.
