Marco Rubio doesn’t seem to have noticed that this stock has fallen a bit since 2010. He’s no longer trumpeted as the “Republican savior” or “GOP Obama,” but rather just the second most popular Republican from Florida. Despite that (and a whole lot of polls), he’s still openly talking about…
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo passed away due to heart failure Thursday evening, just hours after his son, Andrew Cuomo, delivered a speech at a ceremony kicking off his second term as governor of New York. The elder Cuomo had been hospitalized for heart issues in November, and reports…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest…
Update: Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine announced Atlantic Broadband will issue service credit. See bottom for more. New Year’s is a big day for cable and internet — you know, football games, holiday Facebook photos, Google searches on hangover cures. But thousands of Atlantic Broadband customers in Miami Beach were…
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ruled Thursday that an injunction he had issued should be lifted, confirming an earlier decision that gays have a constitutional right to marry in Miami-Dade County. “The Constitution requires the Clerk to issue [marriage] licenses,” he wrote. Florida’s conservative attorney general, Pam Bondi, who had…
What better way to start 2015 than by looking back on 2014? If our most page view-baiting stories of 2015 are any indication, you guys sure like super local jokes and tabloid stories…
It’s January 1, 2015 — which means it’s the perfect time to ramp up speculation about the presidential race that’s now only 677 days away! In Florida, of course, that means we’re talking primarily about two Republican heavyweights, the former governor and conservative family dynasty torchbearer Jeb Bush and his…
Former Miami Police Officer Christopher Vital might have been 2014’s craziest local cop of the year, but he won’t face any charges. Instead, he’ll be forced to hang up his badge for good. In September, Vital was driving his BMW late at night with a lady friend when he roared…
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After two surprising trips to the AFC championship game during his first two years, Rex Ryan quickly settled into everything a Miami Dolphins fan would want out of a New York Jets head coach. The man was practically a caricature of what we imagine their fan base to be: portly,…
Google’s official “Year in Search” feature was pretty tame, but if you really want to know whats on America’s mind you should definitely look to the controversies, tabloid stories, and celebrities that defined this year. Estately decided to do just that and see which odd things each state Googled. Oklahoma,…
Out with the old and in with the new; the turning of the calendar to 2015 represents an opportunity for a fresh start, and a chance to make good on some things you’ve neglected in the last year. Everyone has something to improve upon, and the beginning of a new…
Less than a week before gay marriage is expected to be legalized in Florida, Publix, the state’s largest private company, wants everyone to know it will let gay and lesbian employees extend their benefits to their legal same-sex spouses. And the company expects a pat on the back for it…
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Maybe there’re some idiots somewhere still looking for a hotel room in Miami on New Year’s Eve, but they’re gonna have to have big cash. Less than 1 out of 10 hotels in the entire area have any vacancies left for the holiday, and on average, the rates on those…
This morning, New Times published a yearlong investigation into Taser abuse committed by local cops. Among our findings: Miami’s three major police departments have tasered more than 3,000 people in less than eight years. Eleven men — including teenager Israel “Reefa” Hernandez — have died after being stunned. Local cops…
Hope your New Year’s Resolution isn’t to buy a new house, because residential property prices have surged higher here in Miami than in any other major market in the country according to the latest data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Between October 2013 and October 2014, average prices here…
Richard Rosengarten walked into Publix at 4:20 p.m. November 15, 2013. Normally, not even Rosengarten, a brilliant and bespectacled University of Miami law student, would remember the exact date and time he went grocery shopping. But it’s not every day you see cops electrify an innocent man. The supermarket’s automatic…
Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel has scheduled a hearing for next Monday at which time LGBT rights advocates expect she will clarify whether her stay on Pareto, a local lawsuit challenging Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage, will continue past January 5, the day a federal judge’s stay on…
It’s almost 2015, which means minimum wage workers are getting a raise. Thanks to a state amendment passed by voters in 2004 that ties the minimum wage to inflation, starting on January 1 the minimum wage in Florida will now be $8.05 an hour…
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Long Beach Polytechnic Senior High has been named the “sports school of the century” by Sports Illustrated. It has sent more players to the NFL than any other high school, and multiple programs regularly snatch California state titles. The girls’ basketball program is no exception. The Jackrabbits are back-to-back defending…
