Just off the six lanes of Tamiami Trail, west of Florida’s Turnpike and behind a Kentucky Fried Chicken, a secret gate leads to a backyard where dugout canoes rest under a chickee hut. Across the grass and through a sliding-glass door is a living room that doubles as the Medicine…
You can’t miss them. The new signs, on Lincoln Road at Meridian and Washington avenues, are massive, and their message is loud and unambiguous. “NO BICYCLES ON LINCOLN ROAD,” they flash in lighted block letters. “BICYCLES PROHIBITED 9 A.M. to 2 A.M.” The electronic signs went up a couple of…
The alligators of the Everglades are wasting away. Literally. Scientists have noticed for decades that gators in South Florida have become increasingly smaller than those found in central and north Florida, and things haven’t gotten better. CBS News reports that the habitat now supports about half the population scientists expect…
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Parts of downtown Miami have become almost unrecognizable since 2000. Few urban cores have remade themselves in the new millennium the way downtown Miami has, yet the area continues to get criticism for being a place that still isn’t quite suited for living full-time. Well, the Downtown Development Agency has…
Javier Cuenca, a former assistant basketball coach at Hialeah Gardens High School, has been arrested on multiple charges after allegations arose that he molested one or more male players over a period of two to three years. “He would tell them that he was going give them a steroid to…
The two middle-aged men were ambitious. They wanted to repair their sailboat and navigate across the ocean, from Colombia to Italy. All so they could smuggle two tons of cocaine. According to a federal arrest affidavit filed last week, keysnet.com reports, two South Florida men — Juan Soberon and Marin…
In 1987, the Miami Herald turned a presidential race on its head. A team of reporters, acting on a tip, staged an elaborate stake-out of Democratic frontrunner Gary Hart at his Washington townhouse. Their reporting led to an investigation alleging that Hart had been carrying on an affair with a…
In May 2010, Broward dispatchers received a call from a terrified woman cowering in a bathroom. She was pregnant, she said, and her much larger fiancé had just hit her in the face. “Please help,” the woman begged. Police showed up and arrested her alleged abuser. But because the woman’s…
Dumb names. Serious crime. Miami-Dade Police’s yearlong “Operation Willy Wonka” investigation into the “Get Money Soliders” street gang has ended in the arrest of 17 members as well as 14 other individuals. The Get Money Soldiers were operating out of the Arthur Mays Villas Public Housing complex down in the…
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After some embarrassing losses in the midterm elections, the Florida Democratic party is full of some finger pointing and infighting at the moment, but the party’s State Chairwoman Allison Tant is sick of it. She told the News Service of Florida that, “the bed-wetters need to shut up, and we…
Pharrell Williams’ life is better than yours. His music career is back and better than ever. His style is fawned over. He’s a judge on one of the biggest shows on television at the moment. But not everything is going well for ol’ Pharrell. He can’t sell his Brickell penthouse…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week, that includes the Florida connection to France’s reality show attempted murder and the worst shoplifter in America…
S—, we’re going to go out and beat that ass. Point blank. Period,” – Bills cornerback Leodis McKelvin on what would happen when the Bills played the Dolphins. Final score at Sun Life last night: Dolphins 22, Bills 9. More like LOLdis McKelvin, right? RIGHT?!…
Tannie “T-Man” Burke, 21, tells CBS4 that he’s used to being hassled by cops even though he’s never been convicted of a crime. He’s been arrested twice and detained several other times, he believes, simply because he’s a young black man. “I feel they stop me because they see a…
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Last Sunday morning Les Lehotay, a Miami Beach hairdresser, had breakfast at Las Olas Cafe, at Sixth Street and Euclid Avenue, with his friend Lorenzo Ramos, a realtor, and Ramos’ dog Rocco, a healthy two and a half-year-old French bulldog. At one point Ramos took Rocco for a walk around…
Senator Bill Nelson is just about the only problem the Florida Democratic Party doesn’t have. The 72-year-old senator is in his third term and always cruises to an easy reelection, and has held one elected office or another since 1973 save for a four-year gap in the early ’90s. But…
SoHo Beach House: $460,000. Prime Italian restaurant: $280,000. Blockbuster video: $25,000. It reads like a bill for a raging Art Basel party. In fact, it’s just a few of the fees that local businesses owe the City of Miami Beach. Because of billing mistakes and lax enforcement, however, officials now…
It was a historic day for equal rights in Miami-Dade yesterday, as the county commission moved one step closer to adding transgendered residents to anti-discrimination laws. But it’s the city across Biscayne Bay from County Hall that took home the area’s highest honors for LGBT equality in the latest national…
If Bay Harbor Islands, the two-island, 5,000-person town on Biscayne Bay between North Miami and Bal Harbour, is known for anything, it’s MiMo architecture. But at a commission meeting earlier this week, the town moved closer to breaking away from the county’s historic building preservation rules, and some town residents…
