Yesterday Eric Arem, a Hollywood resident, won a court ruling: His red light camera citation was thrown out. At issue was that Arem hadn’t actually received the ticket from the City of Hollywood. Instead, it was issued by a Tempe, Arizona-based company, American Traffic Solutions (ATS). ATS operates the majority…
After ranking all 34 cities within Miami-Dade County, we couldn’t help but wonder where the major cities of Florida would stack up. So we decided to answer that question ourselves, naturally. Because what fun is the internet without arbitrary rankings? So we assembled a list of Florida’s most notable cities,…
Just two years ago, Tony Bosch was the go-to source for customized steroid cocktails for some of the biggest names in professional baseball. Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, and Nelson Cruz all paid the unlicensed doctor thousands to cook up testosterone creams and lozenges that could beat Major League Baseball’s drug…
Detective Suberto Hernandez, a heavyset undercover cop with a scraggly beard and long greasy hair, pulled to a stop in an unmarked car just south of Calle Ocho on a quiet Little Havana corner across from a vacant grass lot. Wearing clothes that made him look like a grungy construction…
Long before they could tackle issues like Florida’s economy, education funding or crime rates during tonight’s televised debate, Gov. Rick Scott took a proud stand on a far more important issue: Charlie Crist’s fan. Crist, for the uninitiated, has always insisted on having a fan blowing his direction during live…
The Skytrain at MIA is supposed to make airport travel less hectic for Miamians and visitors alike. Of course, if something goes wrong, they can go very wrong. One of the system’s trams broke down today, leaving passengers inside for over two hours. Luckily author, singer, and life coach Carlos…
The Miami Gardens Ravens were gearing up to take on the Carol City Chiefs at Miami Carol City Park. Both teams plays in the Flo Rida-sponsored Florida Youth Football League, which includes children as young as five. The park was packed with families. Then something odd appeared. Young girls in…
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Rankings-happy real estate site Movoto pulled out all the stops this week. It ranked nearly every ZIP code in the nation from best to worst. Of course, it’s a real estate site, so the criteria for “best” really means something more like “nicest to live in.” It also means the…
Tonight, Gov. Rick Scott and ex-Gov. Charlie Crist will take a break from sliming each other in TV ads to share a stage at Broward College, where instead they’ll slime each other in a statewide televised debate. Voters will continue reviling both men, whose unfavorable ratings have each trended toward…
The Florida Panthers’ new management has decided there will be no more freebies. You’re cut off, South Florida. No more free tickets with the purchase of a Publix sub. The Panthers want you to pay to watch them play, and as you can see from the above photo of their…
The news hit Miami Beach residents back in April like an early season tropical depression: the decaying Venetian Causeway would have to close for the better part of a year for a rebuilding project. For residents who’ve lived through more than a year of Alton Road traffic-pocalypse, losing the causeway…
Our cover story this week is Tim Elfrink’s latest dip into the apparently never-ending pool of scandal surrounding the Coral Gables “anti-aging” clinic turned one-stop steroids shop Biogenesis. Amongst the latest scoops: Miami Police Department officers turned up on the client lists of Tony Bosch’s clinic, and steroids connected to…
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Support for Florida’s medical marijuana amendment has been riding high in polls for so long that it almost seemed like its passage would be a foregone conclusion. But a funny thing seems to have happened on the way to the ballot box. Two new polls show that the amendment is…
Apparently to outsiders, Miamians are intimidating. We’re those hotties you see at the bar and work up your confidence all night to go talk to, only to be instantly shut down. At least that’s the impression we get from Travel + Leisure’s 2014 version of America’s Favorite Cities survey. The…
In Miami, construction cranes are multiplying like late-summer swarms of mosquitoes, and every week it seems a new luxury high-rise hits the marketplace. Only New York has more million-dollar listings than the Magic City. And residents without the wallets to drop a few mil on a condo with a Ferrari…
Last September, county officials discovered that soil in Coconut Grove’s Merrie Christmas Park was holding toxic waste leftover from a long-gone incinerator, including harmful toxins such as arsenic, barium, cadmium, and lead. The contaminated section of the park was closed, but just a couple of weeks ago the city revealed…
Inside a conference room at Major League Baseball’s modernist Manhattan headquarters, Rob Manfred stared down Alex Rodriguez. The fate of both men — the future commissioner of baseball and the era’s greatest slugger — hung in the balance. Rodriguez was furiously fighting a record suspension for buying steroids from a…
More than three years after police on Miami Beach shot more than a 100 rounds into a car driven by Raymond Herisse during a busy Memorial Day weekend because they felt he was trying to run an officer over, the Miami Beach Police Department has enacted a new policy under…
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The City Beautiful has a problem ugly. Police say they’re dealing with some perverted crimes, including peeping Toms in the northern part of the city, and hope to put an end to it. First order of business: locating a man who allegedly snuck up and exposed himself to a female…
