Seasalt and Co. is a Florida-based company that creates custom Photoshop tool packages for graphic designers. That should be a relatively controversy-free business, but yesterday the company took to Facebook to announce an upcoming package of tools. It’s called “The Hanging Tree” and was advertised with a chilling image of…
The rest of the country sure likes to make fun of Florida, but that hasn’t stopped tourists from visiting the Sunshine State in record numbers. Earlier today, Gov. Rick Scott and state tourism officials unveiled tourism data from 2014 that estimates 97.3 million people visited Florida last year, a record…
Steve Montador played three seasons of his decadelong NHL career with the Florida Panthers, including his career-best year during 2007 and ’08, when he scored eight goals and racked up 15 assists. The former defenseman was found dead early Sunday morning at this home in Mississauga, Ontario. Montador, who was…
Where’s the toughest place to live in America? When the New York Times set out to answer that question by delving into six pieces of national data broken down by county, including household income, disability rates, and education levels. The result: Wide swaths of the Deep South are mired in…
Catherine Daniels called Miami Gardens Police Sunday morning with a plea: Her son, a mentally ill man named Lavall Hall, needed help. After she called police, Hall walked out of the house holding a broom. Daniels never saw her son alive again, because the two Miami Gardens Police officers who…
A battle is brewing for the soul of Miami’s most iconic neighborhood. Little Havana, the spiritual home of the Cuban diaspora that populated the area in droves following the 1959 revolution, is still mostly a blue-collar immigrant neighborhood. But proposed zoning changes for taller condos and more commercial development have…
Valentine’s Day is today, which means we’ve spent all week collecting heart-warming cards. Tons of people have reached out to us to tell us how much we mean to them. Our hearts were so touched, we decided to let everyone know about it. Between cards from vaping companies and craft…
Lincoln Road is basically a suburban mall in the middle of South Beach, and every suburban mall has that wing full of odd, sort of depressing stores. So it only makes sense that Ross Dress for Less is moving on to the strip…
In one of 2014’s most chilling local stories, a homeless man scavenging for food in the dumpster outside of a U-Gas station in North Miami found a box with the remains of a deceased newborn inside a dumpster. Now the child’s family has filed a lawsuit against a mortuary that…
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro doesn’t quite have the same knack for constantly antagonizing America in all the attention-getting ways as his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, but he does occasionally like to make claims that the U.S. is behind some sort of supposed coup or another. Just yesterday, Maduro claimed that an…
Next Tuesday, Biogenesis chief Tony Bosch will learn how long he’ll spend in federal prison for running an illegal steroid operation. On one hand, he’s admitted to supplying dozens of Major Leaguers — and at least 18 Miami high schoolers — with ‘roids. He’s also fessed to helping run a…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest…
For years, cops accused of needlessly tasering suspects have been protected in South Florida. Even in instances when suspects have died after being shocked, officers have avoided blame in both criminal and civil courts. That could be changing, however. Last week, district judge James Lawrence King ruled that a jury…
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When President Barack Obama announced that he’d begin normalizing relations with Cuba in December, it seemed that the end of the Cuban embargo might not be far away. However, the president doesn’t have the power do that by himself. First, Congress must pass legislation reversing the nearly 55-year-old policy. Well,…
Once again, Florida has lead the nation in shark attacks. What? Did you think Utah or Nevada were going to pull out a surprise victory? The Sunshine State saw 28 shark attacks in 2014, which made up more than half of the nation’s total 54 shark attacks, according to the…
In December of 2013, the American hemisphere was hit for the first time by an outbreak of a mosquito-borne disease that, although rarely fatal, causes acute fever, bright red rashes, and excruciating joint pain that can last for months. By last summer, Chikungunya was devastating the Caribbean. Hundreds of thousands…
Miami-Dade County has banned residents from owning pit bulls for more than 25 years, and voters reaffirmed the ban in 2012 with an overwhelming 63 percent vote. Despite controversy surrounding the law, politicians and citizens alike have time and time again shown that Miami is comfortable with breed-specific legalization regarding…
When Tony Bosch — the steroid-dealing founder of Miami clinic Biogenesis — agreed last summer to help Major League Baseball go after his biggest clients, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, he demanded some favors in return — namely, that MLB wouldn’t go after his family and that the league…
Last Friday, Miami Beach police responded to a call about a young woman’s unresponsive body floating in Biscayne Bay by the seawall behind Mount Sinai Hospital. A boater who spotted the body tried to perform CPR to no avail. The woman was taken to the hospital where she was later…
A small plane with a capacity to hold up to 20 people crashed into trees this afternoon after engine problems near the intersection of Krome Avenue and SW 144th Street. Authorities have now confirmed that four people died in the plane crash. The identities of the victims have not been…
