Is Rep. Alan Grayson about to shake up the 2016 Florida Senate race? He’s just staffed up with a formidable election team, singled out Rep. Patrick Murphy, a moderate Democrat who is already in the race, in a news release, and recent polls show he could indeed have a shot…
A Miami Police officer has shot a man in Overtown, police officials confirm. Sgt. Javier Ortiz, president of the Miami police union, tells New Times “the officer is fine, but the suspect is wounded.” The MPD hasn’t officially released any other details about the shooting. But reports from the scene…
Miami-Dade is one step closer to allowing police to issue fines — rather than making arrests — for marijuana possession. After a hearing yesterday where residents, public defenders and commissioners mostly enthusiastically backed the idea, a panel of Miami-Dade Commissioners gave initial approval to the ordinance. Supporters say the plan,…
Rolling Stone said the movie ‘pulls no punches.’ The Miami Herald called it a ‘knockout’. Former New Times staff writer Frank Alvarado, who wrote the 2008 feature story that inspired the film, said it was ‘worth the wait’. But in the few weeks since Dawgfight, Rakonteur’s new documentary about backyard brawling…
The Miami Marlins opened their wallets big time this off season. They re-signed Giancarlo Stanton to a blockbuster $325 million, 13 year deal. They gave Christian Yelich a seven-year deal worth almost $50 million. Then they brought in Michael Morse for two years for $16 million. Their total payroll is…
On the day when Miami-Dade Commissioners discuss instituting fines instead of arrests for minor pot possession offenses, one of Miami’s most famous stoners has been arrested on marijuana charges in Georgia. According to WSB-TV, a police officer in Fayetteville County, Georgie originally pulled over a Bentley Ross was in for…
Carnival Cruises is sick of it passengers getting to turnt at high tide on smuggled booze, so the Miami-based cruise line has decided to ban passengers from bringing all bottled beverages on board because they know you’re smuggling booze in them. The company introduced the new policy yesterday in an…
Casa Casuarina, perhaps better known as the former Versace Mansion, is one of the most famous buildings on South Beach …but no one can figure out what to do with it. Less than two years after buying it at auction, its current owners have put it back on the market. …
The Principal of North Miami Senior High School, Alberto Iber, has been removed from the job a day after a comment he made about Saturday’s incident between police and black youth in McKinney, Texas, was passed around online. “Judgment is the currency of honesty,” said Superintendent of Schools Alberto M…
Just weeks after the Miami Beach City Commission approved a ban on late-night alcohol sales and consumption on Ocean Drive over the objections of many restaurant and hotel owners, city officials say the change could be just the beginning of reforms on the iconic boulevard. And one South Beach hotel…
For decades of Cold War deep freeze, communications between Miami’s exilios and their relatives back in Cuba were beyond primitive. Family updates came only from newly arrived relatives who survived the raft trip to America. Back in Havana, radio signals that bounced past censors or the odd smuggled foreign newspaper…
On the night of October 1st, 2005, Nigel Whatley and Michael Morris were leaving Club Boi, a now closed gay and bisexual nightclub in Liberty City and were walking back to Morris’ new Infiniti G35. That’s when a man attempted to rob them. The assailant ended up shooting Whatley to…
Last week The New York Times published the traffic infraction history of Marco Rubio and his wife that was widely panned. The “shocking” findings: the Rubios are typical Miami driver. The piece was widely panned by other outlets, and even spawned a Twitter Hashtag — #RubioCrimeSpree — mocking the lowball…
The Washington Post today rounded up the top 50 hospitlas in America that charge patients the “highest markup of prices over their actual costs,” in effect gouging costumers. 20 of them are in Florida. Which isn’t exactly surprising. Consider the fact that 49 of those hospitals are for-profit center. 14…
“Miami Is Highly Unequal — But Is That Bad?” reads the headline of an article on Forbes.com today by Scott Beyer. Unsurprisingly for a piece in a publication named after and edited by arch free market conservative Steve Forbes, the answer Beyer comes to is, “No, not really.” So you…
It all started with a $70 bill. That’s what a doctor’s office in West Kendall sent to Miami Police Detective Lizlinda Bremer. One year later, that simple bit of medical cost-collecting has led to two abuse investigations against Bremer and now the threat of a civil lawsuit against the doctor’s…
Roger Hammer is searching for wildflowers. A wilderness photographer since 1972, the tall, sturdy 70-year-old has spent much of his life in the world-famous swamps of South Florida. With a long gray ponytail swaying across his back, he steps over the soft, algae-covered slough floor about 60 miles west of…
Brian Nobles, a Miami-Dade County corrections sergeant, could find himself on the other side of the cell after being arrested for beating his girlfriend. The victim claims that incident was just the latest in a line of physical assaults, and claims that Nobles even once assaulted her while he was…
Developers of luxury condo high-rises in Miami have had it pretty good for the past few years. Grab some famed starchitect, give your property some outrageously expensive and kind of silly amenities, slap a vague name on it like 2200 Ocean on it and then just sell a bunch of…
According to various rumors and reports, Pat Riley has a big plan to sign Kevin Durant when he hits free agency next sumer. Which would be great, considering Durant owned a condo that directly overlooked the Heat’s American Airlines Arena …or he did anyway. The Oklahoma City Thunder star just…
Last week, the New York Times dropped an election-season bombshell: Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, have gotten a few traffic tickets over the years in Miami. The horror! The story has been universally lampooned, with conservatives questioning whether the Times took the traffic info from a liberal opposition research group…
Miami native Brad Meltzer is a nine-time bestselling author of historical and political thrillers. He hosts two shows on the History Channel, Lost History and Decoded. He’s given anti-terrorism advice to the Department of Homeland Security, hobnobbed with George H.W. Bush, and spent hours poring over Lincoln assassination history. But…
