On October 1, 2013, more than 60 men in jumpsuits crowded into the austere cafeteria at the Krome Service Processing Center, a huge Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on the edge of the Everglades. The men, detainees from various Latin American countries, were gathered for a Spanish-language Catholic service…
All a Miami woman wanted to do was stop at the Big Lots so she could buy some feminine products. All her husband, Rafael Chacon, 24, wanted to do apparently was act insane. Chacon, enraged by the idea of his wife wanting to buy her lady products, allegedly dragged out the…
Jose Cartaya Reyes and Robel Rosendo Morales were shepherd to jail after the armed robbery and ensuring slaughtering of three Barbados blackbelly sheep in Hialeah Gardens. The flock of two now face charges of animal cruelty, armed burglary and possession of burglary tools. According to NBC Miami, the two were caught…
“Grandpa, tell us about the olden times,” my grandchildren Brazilynne and Ethernet Jr ask me in the year 2065. “Oh, we had it hard back then. I had to walk 15 miles in the snow to school. Uphill both ways,” I say. “Grandpa, you grew up in the lost lands…
Dressed in forest-green scrubs, Dr. Hansel Tookes spends his lunch break searching for used syringes around an Overtown overpass. Tookes’ eyes scan the weeds beside the sidewalk. He glosses over condom wrappers and shattered beer bottles, then hones in on one tiny orange cap from the tip of a syringe…
Earlier this month, Gov. Rick Scott agreed to pay upwards of $1.3 million in legal fees for repeatedly breaking Florida’s open records laws. Of course, he’s paying for those mistakes with taxpayer money, so voters get to pay for his crimes. Even for Scott, that’s a tough act to…
After video surfaced last night of a Miami police officer beating a man in handcuffs, the Miami Order of the Fraternal Police trying to smear the woman who originally posted the video on her Facebook page. Union President Javier Ortiz blasted out a press release picking images from Smith’s Facebook…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. Florida Mom Leaves Kids in Car to Drink, Has Child Blow into Breathalyzer to Start Car Oh, the rewards of having children. They bring joy into your life, carry on…
Eventually, medical marijuana will be legal nationwide. Yes, even in Florida, where 58 percent support at the ballot box last time around wasn’t enough to enshrine the change in state laws. In fact, the campaign behind that last Florida medical weed effort — United for Care — is pushing hard…
Cuba is now open for business — this morning, John Kerry is in Havana to officially inaugurate reopened diplomacy between the nations by re-christening the U.S. embassy there. There’s still plenty of debate about the pros and cons of the move: Kerry isn’t going to meet with dissidents, which has…
Richard Conlin woke up to the clatter of construction on Wednesday. He lives in Southgate Towers at 10th Street and West End. From his window nine stories up, he scanned Biscayne Bay and saw a sight he says he’s grown all too familiar with: the sheen of an oil slick…
The 47-second video opens with a group of Miami police officers calmly placing a young man in a black T-shirt into handcuffs. One of the officers then leads the man toward a squad car and sits him in the back seat. Then, suddenly, the officer leaps toward the suspect, seemingly…
Malaysian tourism and gambling conglomerate Genting Group took Miami by storm back in 2011 by buying up the old Miami Herald building and a bunch of surrounding properties with plans to build a major destination resort and casino. Those plans were scrapped after lawmakers refused to rewrite gambling laws, and…
The year was 2005, ten years removed from Don Shula’s retirement. The Dolphins were very much in the midst of a mediocrity-strewn identity crisis that stretches on to this day. Nick Saban was the hottest coach in college football. He had turned LSU into national champs. So when the Miami…
Same-sex Marriage became legal in Miami-Dade on January 5th (a day before the rest of the state), and Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello were the first couple in the entire state to get married. Since that historic day, Florida has dragged its feet catching up to reality. LGBT people can still…
A new push for higher minimum wages is sweeping across America, with New York City on the path toward joining Seattle and San Francisco with a $15 per hour standard. Last month, dozens of workers in Miami marched to demand that South Florida do the same. But even among…
A Doral strip club has been temporarily closed down by authorities after a Hialeah man tried some unconventional father-daughter bonding on site. Hialeah police say Jose Manuel Arguelles, 59, took his 16-year-old daughter and her teenage friend to the Pink Pony gentlemen’s club and allowed the two girls to drink, smoke…
You can now get married to your same-sex partner in Florida, but its still legal in much of the state to get fired or denies housing simply for being gay. Legislators, mostly Democrats, have tried for the past ten years to pass a law that would protect LGBT people from…
While David Beckham’s proposed Miami MLS team is still trying to hammer out the details of where it will call home, Miami FC, the team’s newly announced NASL team, is breezing along and already has a logo. Announced just months ago, Miami FC will play in the second tier North…
Stephen Ross has trouble filing seats for America’s most beloved sport, so he can help launch an entirely new sport? We’re about to find out. The Dolphins owner has invested $1 million in a new drone racing league through a venture firm he co-founded. Yes, drone racing. The Drone Racing…
Anyone who’s ever lived on South Beach knows the moment. Thunder booms, rain pounds down in solid sheets of water, and then it happens: The streets suddenly turn into rivers, sending cars and pedestrians bobbing in the massive buildup of precipitation. Floods are part of the contract that comes with…
Plotting your long-awaited travel to Havana now that American access to the island is getting easier? Forget traveling by plane or cruise ship. Now you can legally get to Cuba from South Florida on a yacht — as long as you’re willing to pay at least $100,000. Last week, West…
