Last November, 58 percent of Florida voters supported Amendment 2, which would have made medical marijuana legal in Florida. Even though the majority of voters were in favor of the amendment, it wasn’t enough to pass. The vote was just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold. But the…
David Beckham made it official today: He wants to build a soccer stadium next to Marlins Park near the site of the old Orange Bowl. In a letter sent to Mayor Tomas Regalado, Beckham and his partners pledge a “world-class stadium” on the site — while offering scant few specifics…
In lane four of the Dwyer High School track in Palm Beach Gardens, Tyrese Cooper — nickname: “Smoke” — executes his ritual. He jumps twice. He secures his lucky, never-been-washed sweatband around his forehead and kisses the gold cross dangling from his neck. He taps his forehead, chest, and then…
As if we didn’t already have enough cockroaches in South Florida, there’s a new beast in town. Last month, environmental scientist Marc Minno was ruffling through stacks of papers on his office floor, in Live Oak, Florida, north of Gainesville, when he spotted an interesting looking bug. He wasn’t startled,…
The latest doom and gloom climate change prediction has arrived this week — and it’s a doozy. The study, written by alarmist (but still reputable and regularly correct) climate change scientist James Hansen predicts that sea level will rise 10 feet in the next 50 years. That seems like a lot,…
One year ago, Dan Markel pulled into the driveway of his Tallahassee home, opened the door slightly, and was suddenly shot in the head. The nationally recognized, 41-year-old FSU law professor died a few hours later. His death rattled the FSU campus and entire academic legal community, down to Miami, where…
Miami prosecutors have charged a South Florida man today with multiple crimes after investigators stumped him with a simple question: “Where’s The Beef?” Carlos Hernan Del Valle, a 61-year-old Weston, has been arrested and charged with grand theft and organized fraud for his role in a meat exporting fraud scheme that…
Wynwood might just get Miami’s first woonerf. No, it’s not the latest craft coffee or designer furniture craze — it’s a Dutch term for a kind of pedestrian-friendly, low-speed street. that can be walled off from cars on weekends. And woonerfs are part of a larger proposal headed to the…
With diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Cuba now formally re-established and a Cuban embassy up and running in Washington, the next question is where Cuba’s first consulate will go. Not that there’s much question where it should go, based on logic alone: WIth 800,000 or so Cuban-Americans in South…
Two Miami-Dade Police officers approached the gate, their eyes level and their hands on their guns. The sprawling ranch sits on five acres deep in the rural Redland, up against the Everglades, where passing aircraft that come and go from a next-door glider port provide the only visible connection to…
Amidst all the news today about the U.S. and Cuba officially reopening diplomatic ties, it’s easy to forget how close the nations once were. In fact, Miami itself was once a hotbed of diplomacy with Havana, thanks to a Cuban consulate located right in town on North Miami Avenue. …
On June 28, Chloe Arenas woke up before the sun to pick up her mother and grandmother from an early morning flight. But the 21-year-old University of Central Florida student never reached the airport. Soon after worried friends and family called police, her car was found submerged in a retention…
In a few hours, a delegation from Havana will raise a red-white-and-blue flag that hasn’t officially flown in Washington for more than five decades. The Cuban standard will rise above the nation’s embassy on NW 16th Street in D.C., symbolically marking a change that became official at the stroke of…
Last September, Angelica Sweeting had just picked up her 4-year-old daughter from school when the little girl declared from the back seat: “Mommy, I hate my hair. I want it long and blonde like Barbie and Elsa.” The 27-year-old mother of two panicked. Sweeting and her husband Jason reminded Sophia…
On May 28, 2013, 44-year-old Anthony Lee — a drag queen who went by South Beach Wanda — went to his friend Tiffany McKinney’s house in East Tampa. He heard she was sick and came over to make her dinner. When someone knocked on the door, Lee answered it. McKinney…
So, that just happened. The City of Miami and a group headed by David Beckham have agreed in principle on a proposed plan to build a privately financed MLS stadium next to Marlins Park. Miami and Bechham’s group received the OK after architects determined there would be no need to…
Shots rang out late Thursday afternoon in Homestead. Officer Anthony Green was believed to be responding to a 911 call about a man with a gun hanging from his belt. Through the passenger window in his patrol car, Green made contact with Edward Foster, a 35-year-old father of six. There…
This past March, tens of thousands of fans watched wide, sexy electric racecars zoom down Biscayne Boulevard as part of the first ever Formula E (for electric) racing series. The race marked the first time in decades — since the old Miami Grand Prix — that professional car racing had…
In 1999, two Florida tweens made headlines when they shot and killed their father’s 29-year-old girlfriend, Sonya Speights, with their father’s 9mm semi-automatic as she worked on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle in their home just outside Cocoa Beach. Thirteen-year-old Catherine Fairchild Jones fired the first shot into Speight’s torso and…
Miami is a sweaty city. Residents stick to their leather car seats. They turn back home if they forget to roll on deodorant. The probability of pit stains determines whether anyone wears sleeves that day. Miamians tackle their secreting fluids from just about every orifice: boob sweat, crotch sweat, under-the-knee…
Eber Vasquez was killed while riding his bicycle in April of this year. Walter Reyes was killed while riding in January. Aaron Cohen was killed in February 2012, Christophe Le Canne in 2010. But in addition to those deaths, of course, are hundreds of unreported crashes between cars and bicycles…
Last year, we answered a pressing social media question in South Florida: Namely, who was behind the 50 most followed Miami Twitter accounts. The result was a surprising list full of celebrities, athletes, politicians, media outlets, a few social media superstars, and even a good showing of people over 40. When…
