Dressed in head-to-toe camouflage, Ron Bergeron emerges from a yellow thicket and gazes at the open pasture. A heavy rainstorm has left behind a field of black mud and wet grass in Big Cypress National Preserve. The sky is gray and the land bare, save for a herd of deer…
Just after noon today, in the midst of covering what is arguably the biggest story in the nation right now — the Parkland high-school shooting spree that left 17 students and teachers dead — writers and editors at the Sun Sentinel received an email with the vague subject line “Staffing Announcements in Southeast.”
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has clearly found one person to blame for Nikolas Cruz’s shooting rampage: Scot Peterson, the armed BSO deputy who, Israel says, failed to rush into the school and “kill the killer” while Cruz was murdering students and teachers. Israel held a stunning news conference last week in which he said Peterson “never went in” to the school and stood outside for four minutes as the massacre occurred.
Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs seem destined for a breakup, and the Miami Heat should pounce, offering them Hassan Whiteside and Justise Winslow, just as a start.
Earlier this month, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez stood in front of the county commission and with a straight face insisted increased civilian oversight of his police department is “not needed.”
For a moment, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel seemed like a breakout media voice in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. As he sparred with the NRA’s Dana Loesch at CNN’s town hall last week, his national clout exploded.
U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz tried like hell this week to defend the National Rifle Association from scorn after Nikolas Cruz used to an AR-15 rifle to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Immigrants are forced to line up before the crack of dawn for scheduled meetings at Miami’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, which actually sits in Miramar in neighboring Broward County. New Times reported this month that immigrants there were forced to stand in the heat and rain for hours without…
In the days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, student journalist David Hogg quickly rose to prominence for interviewing classmates while hiding from the gunman in a dark closet. But he wasn’t the only student to begin covering the awful story as he lived it. From the moment…
Onstage at the BB&T Center Wednesday night in front of thousands of grieving Floridians, including some family of the 17 students and teachers mowed down by a teen with a military-style weapon at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch showed at least a little decency. She admitted Nikolas Cruz shouldn’t have had the AR-15 he used in the massacre and that Florida’s background-check system doesn’t work.
Yeah, uh, definitely do not do what the Miami-Dade County Public Schools student did in the photo above. A mere week after Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the kid pictured here appears to have posed with an assault-style rifle and captioned the image “Here’s a fat FUCK YOU to everyone.”
This time, Derek Jeter has gone too far. Marlins fans remained relatively quiet when he sold off all of our favorite players to other teams for prospects. We didn’t like it, but most of us understood there was a process in action.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had an armed and trained police guard at the school the day Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers. People have since questioned why the guard wasn’t able to stop Cruz from committing the massacre. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel solved that mystery minutes ago: BSO School Resource Officer Scot Peterson “never went in” to confront Cruz as the shooting occurred.
Everyone knows Florida is run by rubes, fools, and con men. But most people likely weren’t aware just how stupid the state’s legislators really are here on a daily basis until this week, when a brutal Florida school massacre forced national reporters to ask the state’s Republican intelligentsia how they feel…
The day after a disturbed student burst into his former school with a military-style rifle and shot 17 people to death, Chris Grady was sitting at home, feeling “pretty useless.” The 18-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High kept thinking he should be doing something about the massacre.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” a man wearing a “Ban the AR-15” shirt yelled as Sen. Marco Rubio entered the BB&T Center for Wednesday night’s CNN town-hall special about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.
Are you, perhaps, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who is sad or upset that a disturbed 19-year-old was able to buy an AR-15 rifle legally and kill 17 of your friends and teachers last week?
There’s a reason right-wing groups seem to be terrified of the Parkland shooting survivors. The brave kids who lived through the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre have begun a nationwide #NeverAgain protest movement: As shooting survivors speak today in the Florida Capitol, thousands of middle- and high-school students across the state are walking out to demand gun-control laws for the second day in a row.
Give Philip Levine this: He knows how to grab the pressing issue of the day and run with it for maximum media exposure. As Miami Beach’s mayor, Levine leveraged his office on the sea-level rise threatened barrier island to become an international voice for climate change, appearing regularly on CNN,…
The Heat probably isn’t going to make the NBA Finals this year. But, yanno, it could! Here is how that totally improbable thing could happen, thus making us look really smart for saying it could (even when we didn’t really believe it would).
Say what you want about Tampa-area state Rep. Ross Spano, but he truly cares about the dangers our children face in the 21st Century. Just six days after Florida was forced to live through one of the most horrific school shootings in American history, in large part because a…
Perhaps no piece of news illustrates how depraved and broken the Florida political system is than what just went down in Tallahassee. Just six days after Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 assault rifle to murder 14 teenagers and three adults at a high school in Parkland, the Florida House of Representatives voted down a measure to ban purchases of assault rifles and large-capacity magazines statewide.
