On Sunday night, 26-year-old Miami Beach resident Tzvi Yeheskel Ference got into his 2009 Hyundai Accent. He drove out to the Florida Turnpike, entered the southbound lanes while driving the wrong way and crashed directly into an oncoming tractor-trailer. His car was sent careening. It landed on its roof. The tractor-trailer jackknifed…
Most Miami Heat stars opt for a Miami Beach mansion, a downtown condo or an estate in the like of Coconut Grove or Coral Gables. The team’s reigning star, Goran Dragic, decided to look a little bit more north in his search for a permanent pad in the 305 and…
America’s saddest presidential campaign has finally been euthanized by the good voters of South Carolina. No more can voters chuckle woefully at pleas to “Please clap” or at ham handed attempts to explain why Dubya wasn’t wrong to invade Iraq. Jeb! and his random exclamation point have walked slowly into…
King Carter was six years old. He played Pop Warner football for the 75-pound Junior Bandits and had a smile that lit up his neighborhood. This weekend, he became the latest shockingly young kid killed in Miami by gun violence. The young victim has now become the latest rallying cry…
It’s a presidential election year in which Americans of all stripes are questioning the health of our democracy, but you don’t start at the presidential level to realize how broken democracy can be at times. Just take the Florida legislature as a prime example. Representatives and Senators up in Tallahassee once…
Marlins Park has been open for four years now. The team continues to lack in both wins and attracting much attendance. The county Mayor who oversaw the deal was long ago recalled by voters, and other politicians who went along with the deal are also out of office. However, it appears…
Cuba is one of the richest pipelines on earth for world-class baseball talent. It’s also one of the most treacherous places for Major League Baseball teams to recruit. Thanks to the embargo, defectors have to risk perilous journeys across the Gulf and through Latin America before they can snag big-money…
The political data hounds at FiveThirtyEight have assembled a map of which presidential candidate is most popular on Facebook in every county in America. You’ll see seas of blue for Ben Carson, strongholds of gold for Donald Trump, regions of purple for Bernie Sanders, flecks of red in Texas for…
For baseball fans, Spring Training is a time for hope, naive innocence and the glorious chance to drink ballpark beers that cost less than 15 bucks. Sure, the Marlins were wretched again last year, but in Jupiter at least, Fish fans can forget all that pain, snag a few autographs…
Fifteen-year-old Federico Tamborrel was learning to drive on the Turnpike last January with his dad riding shotgun when he swerved to avoid another car. That’s when he saw what every student driver dreads most: Flashing blue-and-red lights in his mirror. But the traffic stop soon turned into a whole different…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: the impressive story of a very ambitious and very fake teenage doctor, a woman who gave it to her husband after she discovered his dildo, and the tragic…
The constant college football recruiting race knows only the bounds the NCAA places on it, and the body says nothing about how old a potential player has to be to start getting attention from coaches. In fact, recruiting mega-website Rivals.com now has profiles on players in the sixth grade! New…
If you’ve ventured into the comment section of any news article about the race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in recent weeks you’ve probably ran into some angry banter about Superdelegates. Well, Rep. Alan Grayson, ever attuned to the internet grassroots, had decided to use the controversy to his Senate…
When the news broke last night that Obama will head to Cuba next month — becoming the first sitting president to visit since 1928 — it swept through Miami like a tropical storm. Pot-banging protesters stormed the streets of Little Havana, molotov cocktails were flung at consulates of nations friendly…
Miami cyclists finally have a reason to celebrate. The main bicycle link between the mainland and Miami Beach, the Venetian Causeway, will reopen in a little over a week after a nine-month closure for repairs. Karim Nahim, the manager of the Miami Bike Shop, says the store is already feeling…
Miami has so many weird real life tales that there’s no need to make up fake ones. Yet humans love a good urban legend. Though they may not be factual, our best local tall tales do tend to reflect the culture of Miami, with everything from Hurricane Andrew to cocaine…
Martin Gottesfeld’s hands apparently weren’t as nimble with the jib and spinnaker of a sailboat as they were with his keyboard. The 31-year-old is suspected to be behind a high-profile hacking attack against a Massachusetts medical center and apparently had tried to flee. He and his wife were traveling in…
Usually when the NRA and other gun groups say jump, Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature says “How high and how many guns should we carry when we do it?” But there’s a few gun fantasies that are just a bridge too far for even some Floridians. Yesterday, Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla,…
Just after midnight yesterday, 911 dispatchers in the Florida Keys received a barrage of odd calls: A backhoe, witnesses said, was wildly flinging boulders across the Seven Mile Bridge and into the water. Thus began America’s strangest police chase of the year. Over the next three hours, a small army…
Jeb Bush, who is currently sitting in last place in national polls of all remaining major Republican candidates, just tweeted a picture of what’s assumedly his personal gun (you can tell, because it has his name embossed on it) with the word “America.” It’s a truly bizarre Tweet, that underlies the…
The U.S. Transportation Department today announced a historic deal reestablishing direct commercial airline service between American and Cuba. The agreement will allow 20 flights a day between America and Havana, and 10 flights each to the rest of Cuba’s nine other international airport. That’s a total of 110 flights a…
2015 was a record-breaking year for hit-and-run accidents in the state of Florida last year. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that the state had 92,623 hit-and-run accidents last year, about an 8,000 accident rise since 2014. That resulted in more than 19,000 injuries and a total of 186 fatalties. 18,345 hit-and-runs…
