On March 8, an Uber driver named Sergio Morales pulled over at 729 SW First Street at 2:30 a.m. to pick up a customer when Miami Police Department Officer Daniel Crocker rapped on the window. When the driver asked Crocker if he was a cop or a security guard, he says, the…
The posts began appearing in May. Spotted first on Instagram and later on Facebook, someone set up a handful of social media accounts criticizing the City of Coral Gables for its use of private security guards. In typical Coral Gables fashion, the city was not pleased. So in late May,…
David Beckham formally announced his plans to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami back in 2014. Hilariously, Beckham said at the time that he assumed the team would start playing in Miami by 2016 or 2017. In hindsight that turned out to be little more than a joke — those…
Black athletes who have fought for civil rights have always taken a huge hit. In 1967, Muhammad Ali convened the famed “Ali Summit” in Cleveland, a gathering of black superstars who were opposed to the Vietnam War, including basketball’s Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and football’s Jim Brown. Ali’s manager, Herbert Muhammad, begged Ali not to oppose the draft because the backlash would kill the boxer’s earning potential. Sports officials had already threatened to revoke Ali’s boxing license.
For years, Jason Taylor was the clean-cut face of the Dolphins, a family-friendly celeb with the charisma to earn jobs as a TV commentator and a Dancing With the Stars appearance and a Hollywood romance with his wife Katina, the sister of his star teammate Zach Thomas. Tomorrow, Taylor will…
Due to the water management issues, South Florida’s poor water quality has resulted in dying fish populations and seagrass plots. With the ecological disaster, local boat manufacturers find their businesses struggling to stay afloat as customers pull out of purchasing small fishing boats to pole the area.
Just last year, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called Breitbart News — the cartoonishly racist conservative news site that birthed Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Ben Shapiro — “not a credible source.” In February 2016, Rubio told Fox News that Breitbart is a website that peddles “conspiracies.” (For once, he wasn’t lying.) Breitbart responded by bashing Rubio throughout the 2016 election cycle.
The Virgina-based company Libre by Nexus has an obvious financial incentive to make sure the United States continues deporting increasing numbers of immigrants: It offers steeply priced bail bonds to people trapped in immigration court. Over the past few years, Libre by Nexus has been accused of exploiting immigrants trapped in the nation’s kangaroo-court deportation system…
Miami’s soccer faithful waited years for last night’s Major League Soccer owners’ meeting in Chicago. David Beckham’s group finally has big-money investors, land for a stadium, and a plan to bring top-tier fútbol to the Magic City. On Wednesday, the local faithful hoped, MLS would finally sign on the line that is dotted.
In mid-May, Michigan lawyer Michael Morse was served with a $10 million sexual assault lawsuit from a woman who said he grabbed her breasts during a photo op. Nine days later, another woman came forward with similar accusations. Since then, three others have filed separate lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct.
According to virtually every sociologist except Harvard University’s George Borjas, the Mariel Boatlift in the 1980s did not hurt the wages of the Miamians who were already living here. In fact, some research shows the huge influx of Cuban migrants raised city wages in the long term.
Miami flooded in biblical proportions last night thanks in part to rising seas and a warming planet. This goes without saying, but the deluge devastated Miami Beach business owners, people who own oceanfront property, and anyone who likes driving on streets that aren’t underwater.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo doesn’t live in Congressional District 26, the swath stretching from South Miami-Dade to the Florida Keys that he represents in Washington. There’s no big mystery why: When the Florida Supreme Court redrew his district in 2015, the new boundaries left him outside, according to state voting records.
You read the headline, so you’re either here to scoff at the notion that the Miami Dolphins could be the last team standing on Sunday, February 4, after Super Bowl LII in Minnesota concludes, or you’ve happily arrived at the official Fins hype party, six-pack in hand. Either way, welcome to a place where positive words are about to be written about the Dolphins football team. Yes, it must be August.
Miami Beach has the second most properties threatened by rising seas in the world, so the city recently sank $500 million into a Sisyphean project to install up to 80 anti-flood pumps across the city. Though the system has helped suck away sunny-day tidal flooding, independent engineers have warned…
Well, uh, don’t drive in Miami right now. Thanks to the remnants of yesterday’s Tropical Storm Emily (which has since weakened to a depression), most of Miami Beach and a big chunk of downtown Miami sit under something close to a foot of water. Cars can’t move, trees have fallen into roads, and a flash-flood warning has been issued for Miami Beach until 5:45 p.m.
In Florida, speeding tickets cost a heck of a lot more if you’re driving more than 10 mph over the speed limit. As anyone who’s ever been pulled over knows, the interaction with an officer can sometimes resemble a negotiation: If you play your cards right, you could get off with a warning or perhaps a cheaper ticket for, ahem, getting caught driving exactly 79 mph on the highway instead of 80.
You’ve heard of Gianni Versace, Al Capone, and Bob Marley. But here are five famous characters you might not have known were buried in South Florida.
Last week, Democratic IT staffer Imran Awan was arrested for alleged bank fraud. In and of itself, that news would rate as a relatively minor political scandal. But Awan worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who inspires some of the weirdest conspiracy theories on Capitol Hill.
The cops were intrigued by Margie Bowman’s story, but she wasn’t the first woman to claim that her husband had killed Eileen Adams.
This past Friday, Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of cops and told them to bang their suspects’ heads against their cruisers, in a clear endorsement of police brutality. So far, only two Miami-area police chiefs have stepped up and said publicly that Trump’s comments were wrong, and none did so voluntarily.
Florida has a well-earned reputation for being a lawless swamp. But give credit where it’s due: In its 172-year history, the Sunshine State has seen fit to regulate a few things, including some truly bizarre bans.
