For the past eight years, Miamians have ranked as one of the most stressed-out populations in America. And being trapped in an overpopulated city without adequate public transportation doesn’t help. Metrorail sucks so bad it’s referred to as “Metrofail,” and somehow we still haven’t figured out a way to build a train across the bay to South Beach.
As doctors made a final attempt to suction the fluid from his brother’s failing heart, Jesús Jave-Castillo stood feet away but saw nothing. A set of sliding hospital curtains obscured Jenry’s unconscious body, but Jesús could tell the prognosis wasn’t good. At 2:30 p.m. March 18, 2017, a hospital staffer…
Miami Beach Commission candidate Rafael Velasquez began today by denying he whipped out his penis while sitting in the passenger seat of Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez’s car. He still denies the incident happened even though Rosen Gonzalez is sticking by her allegations…
When news broke Friday that a grand jury had approved its first indictments in Roger Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone lashed out hard at the messengers. The South Florida resident exploded on Twitter at CNN’s Don Lemon and the New York Times’ Charles Blow — and now has been banned from the site for his tirade.
Steve Dutton and Tom Lang fell in love with downtown Miami almost at first sight, after taking a cruise that ended here in 2012. When they retired to Miami from Fort Worth, Texas, that year, the couple came to especially love the eclectic mix of restaurants along the two blocks…
Since 2015, Miami-Dade’s school district has been sending suspended students to off-campus sites, where they allegedly receive one-on-one instruction and counseling as an alternative to out-of-school suspensions. Two years later, district officials praise the program’s success, though little data is available to confirm it. However, this past month, local nonprofit Power U released a report that discredits these centers, calling them enablers of the school-to-prison pipeline. In most cases, students — predominantly black and Hispanic youth — were not only forced to sit in silence for hours every day but also struggled upon returning to the classroom.
This might come as a grave shock, but Donald Trump’s bold promises earlier this week to finally blow the lid off the JFK assassination mystery by declassifying reams of secret documents turned out to be a gigantic tease. The National Archives ended up declassifying only a fraction of the JFK documents last night and mostly released details that had already been revealed.
The videos were aired on repeat on local cable news channels as Hurricane Irma battered South Florida: small groups of people breaking into shoe stores and leaving with boxes of stolen sneakers. As WPLG and WSVN replayed the incidents, the footage quickly made its way into the national news cycle.
A recently leaked group chat shows that brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon, or TKE, a fraternity at Florida International University, were exchanging sexually explicit messages and nude photos of female students. After the thread was sent to university administrators, FIU launched a full investigation into the disgraced fraternity. Now the New Times visits FIU’s campus to ask the student body what some of their reactions were to the group’s messages.
Thousands of flights jet to Miami every day. Hundreds of them come from the New York area. On airlines such as JetBlue and American, it’s easy to find a round-trip ticket from MIA to LaGuardia for less than $300. If you’re willing to schlep to Fort Lauderdale and avoid a carry-on, you can snag a seat on Spirit for even less.
As sea levels continue to rise, Florida has taken a licking for its bad habit of climate-ignorant development. But despite warnings from the state’s most brilliant and respected scientists, Gov. Rick Scott has more or less disregarded the issue, infamously banning the Department of Environmental Protection from using the term “climate change” in 2015. And though national publications such as Scientific American have taken developers to task for their reluctance to stop building along the coast, state law does little to discourage the practice.
If the Harvey Weinstein case has taught America anything about sexual assault and rape culture, it’s that the Hollywood stories are only the tip of the iceberg. Consider the latest uproar at Florida International University, where someone leaked a fraternity’s group chat full of nude photos of female students, derisive messages about a deceased FIU sorority member, and jokes about anti-Semitism and rape.
It shouldn’t be this way. Watching Dwyane Wade play basketball was never supposed to hurt. It was never supposed to make Miami Heat fans’ pettiness flare. There was never supposed to be so much animosity toward the greatest second-greatest athlete in the history of South Florida sports.
Last Tuesday, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine presented a resolution to Miami Beach’s City Commission calling on Miami Seaquarium to release Lolita, the beloved orca, from captivity. This came after the park left her exposed to the elements during Hurricane Irma. Late last week, Levine announced the resolution passed with a unanimous vote.
The short videos were sent to an FBI agent by a confidential informant. In the clips, a man in a black mask stands in front of an ISIS flag and outlines a brutal plot: He wants to copy the Boston marathon terrorists and detonate a bomb in Miami in the name of ISIS. The man says his motivation is simple: Donald Trump’s policies have driven him to support the Islamist terrorists.
Point Blank Enterprises, a Pompano Beach body armor manufacturer that makes bulletproof vests and body cameras, faces a class-action lawsuit from police unions in Florida and Ohio. The case, filed last week in federal court, claims officers across the nation are being sent out on patrol in faulty bulletproof vests that cost $700 a pop.
By the time George Miyares was hired as a police officer for the Village of Biscayne Park in March 2013, he’d been rejected by nine other law enforcement agencies across South Florida, a recently filed federal lawsuit alleges.
In late 1982, Phil Sandlin was doing paperwork when a young, clean-cut Vietnam War veteran who worked as a parking valet in South Beach walked into the Associated Press office with some negatives. He said he’d snuck onto a film set on Ocean Drive and snapped a few shots of…
For the past two years, three miles of roadway, including Flagler Street, has been under massive reconstruction to replace a 74-year-old water main, sidewalks, and traffic signals. Since then, dozens of Little Havana businesses have closed because of lost customers and revenue. Unfortunately, in May, Edukos, a Venezuelan gastropub, opened on West Flagler, just a block from Marlins Park. Because of the construction, John Guilarte, Edukos’ owner, struggles to keep the restaurant open.
After moving from Manhattan to Fort Lauderdale last month, Stephen Dietz and his wife were excited to snag a two-bedroom apartment in the 30-story Amaray Las Olas, a new luxury tower said to be one of the most expensive apartment buildings ever built in the city. Barely a year old, their home at 215 SE Eighth Ave. boasted private pool cabanas, a yoga studio, and a dog spa.
Early in the first quarter of the Dolphins’ 31-28 comeback win over the Jets, Kenny Stills punched his ticket to the ESPYs with one of the most spectacular catches you’ll ever see. At first, the pass was ruled incomplete, but while the officials were watching the video that proved otherwise, Stills was busy making more headlines as he took off his helmet to unveil a Mad Max look.
When North Miami residents received their power bills earlier this month, their statements came with a welcome surprise: Florida Power & Light was issuing a special credit to all households within city limits. It turns out the utility company has been accidentally overcharging customers in Miami-Dade’s sixth largest city for nearly 20 years.
