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Hunt will plead no contest to two counts of misdemeanor battery, misdemeanor contributing to the dependency of a child, and two counts of felony interference with child custody.

Walmart’s plans to build a superstore in the heart of midtown Miami are now just one vote away from becoming a reality. The retail giant won an appeal with the city’s zoning board last night, overcoming hours of pleas from residents who say the store would turn one of Miami’s…

Eight months after a Miami New Times investigation revealed that Coral Gables anti-aging clinic Biogenesis was slinging performance-enhancing drugs to pro athletes, the fallout keeps growing. Fourteen baseball players were suspended by August. Hometown superstar Alex Rodriguez’s career hangs in the balance as he appeals his historic 211-game ban. One…

Coconut Grove’s Blanche Park and Merrie Christmas Park were both recently closed after tests uncovered high levels of arsenic, copper, barium, cadmium, and other contaminants in the soil. But it seems they’re not the only Miami parks sitting atop former dumping grounds for incinerator ash. According to records uncovered by…

“They are stealing my, my boat in the back,” Yasmin Davis stuttered into the phone. Seconds earlier, the pretty Peruvian architect had been eating lunch in her $2 million Miami Shores mansion. As she tucked a slice of sushi into her mouth, she glanced out the huge glass windows and…

The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display…

On a cool November night, just days before Thanksgiving, a spaceship landed on the corner of Collins Avenue and 16th Street. In an instant, traditional gawker fodder cruising through the streets of South Beach — the Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Bugattis — were made irrelevant by comparison. In terms of strangeness and…

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Despite scores of scandalous Facebook posts depicting rampant drug dealing, hazing, and creep shots of allegedly underage women, members of Florida International University’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will not face any criminal charges. Pi Kappa Alpha frat brothers — or Pikes, as they are known — have apparently closed ranks,…

The Health Insurance Marketplace ostensibly opened yesterday. Beginning at midnight, Americans could create an account and shop for coverage plans that would go into effect at the beginning of next year. The operative word here being “ostensibly.” Somehow the biggest hindrance to the rolling out of Obamacare wasn’t a policy…

Tonight, critics will once again outline their opposition to Walmart’s midtown Miami plans. And while the Planning, Zoning, and Appeals Board meeting won’t be the last time the issue arises, it will likely be opponents’ best shot to derail the big-box store’s development project. It was the same board that…

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