Why did Florida International University’s new bridge crumble onto traffic on SW Eighth Street, killing six people last week? That’s a question investigators will spend months trying to answer. But one enterprising and extremely entertaining YouTuber might have already solved the mystery.
Barely a day after Florida International University’s pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle told multiple news stations she had already all but ruled out charging anyone with crimes over the deaths. She made that flabbergasting statement without even interviewing a single witness, while rescuers were still working to pull bodies from the rubble.
Bridges don’t usually crumble into dust. So when a pedestrian walkway at Florida International University collapsed Thursday, killing six people and crushing eight cars, people were rightly horrified and confused. Workers had installed the bridge overnight only five days before the disaster. FIU even blasted out videos and news releases…
It’s now clear that the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed and killed six people after engineers put it through some kind of “stress testing” earlier in the day. According to Sen. Marco Rubio, the bridge’s internal support cables were being “tightened” just as the bridge crumbled onto traffic below, crushing eight cars under 950 tons of concrete and steel.
To Miami-Dade County insiders, it was no shock when Munilla Construction Management (MCM) beat out three other competitors to win a $14.2 million bid to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. That’s because Munilla is not only one of the biggest contractors in South Florida but also one of the most politically connected thanks to years of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaigns.
Four people have died in the pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University’s Modesto Maidique Campus, Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Chief Dave Downey said in a late-evening news conference.
Two of the biggest firms that built the Florida International University pedestrian bridge that collapsed today have recently been accused of unsafe practices. In one of those cases, another bridge project toppled onto workers.
A new, $14.2 million pedestrian bridge on the Florida International University Modesto Maidique Campus in West Miami-Dade has collapsed. People are reportedly trapped under the rubble. Police have confirmed multiple deaths but didn’t say exactly who or how many. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is en route to the site.
Cheryn Smilen seemed like someone who cared deeply about South Florida’s stray cat population. She helped the Cat Network with its sterilization efforts, fed cats for friends while they were out of town, and ran her own rescue where she listed dozens of cats available for adoption.
Two days before Hurricane Irma lashed Florida, Bernika Blocker packed up her home in Miami, took some cash out of the bank, and evacuated north to Atlanta with her father. The storm followed them to her brother-in-law’s home in Georgia, and on Monday, September 11, Blocker called work to say she wouldn’t be able to make it to her job as a City of Miami Beach recreation leader.
A federal judge Tuesday cleared the way for a developer to bulldoze 88 acres of critically endangered Miami pine rocklands. One of the last shreds of an ecosystem that does not exist anywhere else on Earth will soon become an apartment complex with a Chili’s, LA Fitness, and Walmart attached.
When Miami Beach shut down Mokai Lounge last week over a viral video showing a horse panicking inside the nightclub, city leaders cited an “active threat to public health, welfare, or safety.” After all, somebody is bound to get hurt when a fully grown horse goes crazy inside a packed club…
Last December, a platoon of bulldozers descended upon one of the last stretches of endangered pine rocklands in America and flattened the area to build apartments, a Chili’s, an LA Fitness, and a Walmart on the critically threatened area. The tractors would have done even more damage had a group of South Florida environmentalists not filed an emergency lawsuit and obtained a restraining order to halt construction.
At 10 a.m. today, thousands of South Florida students will set down their books and walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes. Their message is simple: Ban the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that helped Nikolas Cruz murder 17 kids and teachers in Parkland last month.
There are definitely pros and cons that come with being a fan of each South Florida team. Here are a few that any true believer knows all too well.
After Allen West wrapped up two years of representing Broward County in Washington by disparaging Muslim people and proposing terrible laws, he set up a massive right-wing clickbait empire that flooded Facebook with articles designed to gin up fear among terrified conservatives. One of those pieces has now landed the ex-congressman in federal court.
Barely a week after South Florida resident Anita Britt joined the corporate board of American Outdoor Brands, Nikolas Cruz used one of the company’s AR-15 assault rifles to murder 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. That wasn’t Britt’s only high-profile role, though: Just a month earlier, she’d been hired as chief financial and administrative officer at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens.
Florida charges way too many people with felony theft for a simple reason: Under state law, anytime someone steals something worth at least $300, it qualifies as “grand theft.” That threshold is among the lowest in America. Florida has not raised that amount since 1986 despite the fact that the U.S. dollar has undergone inflation in those 32 years and other states have raised their limits to as much as $2,500 to qualify as a felony.
The doors were locked at Mokai Lounge this past weekend after the City of Miami Beach shut it down over a viral video showing a horse freaking out and bucking off its scantily clad rider inside the club. Animal activists have poured vitriol on the nightclub’s social media accounts over the horse stunt, which the city said represented a threat to public safety.
With every Miami street festival comes a series of silly, petty squabbles with law enforcement, and 2018’s Calle Ocho Festival in Little Havana appears to have been no different. In a video posted online yesterday, a group of City of Miami Police officers sprung into action after a man in a wide-brimmed hat tried to use a plastic drink cooler to wallop an opponent.
Victor Díaz de León slices through Biscayne Bay in a craft that looks more insect than boat, with a small sail and a pair of wings extending from a narrow carbon-fiber hull. As he glides at breakneck speed past downtown Miami’s skyline on a gray February afternoon, the vessel abruptly…
To understand YouTube star Jake Paul, look no further than the video “Failed Icy Hot Bath Challenge,” which has been viewed more than 19 million times. In the clip, Paul fills a bathtub with Icy Hot ointment, pulls on swim trunks, lowers himself into the vat of ooze, and screams. It turns out you are definitely not supposed to bathe in Icy Hot…
