The Marlins had a decent shot of derailing the red-hot Washington Nationals last night, taking a 3-1 lead in the top of the sixth thanks in part to a Giancarlo Stanton bomb. But then the Marlins realized they are the sad clowns of Major League Baseball and ended up stumbling…
If you worked hard earlier this month to avoid the gruesome Facebook photo Derek Medina posted of his just-murdered wife, beware: The death scene is now plastered across a tabloid in the supermarket aisle. The National Enquirer has reprinted the bloody shot of 26-year-old Jennifer Alonso that Medina posted to…
David Dubrow, a 21-year-old Miami native who spent this past summer interning at Miami New Times, has died after sustaining injuries from a house fire in Norwalk, Connecticut, last Sunday. He passed away around 1 p.m. Tuesday…
Anthony Lee had to answer the door. Of course he did. If something needed to be done and done right, it was in the 49-year-old’s nature to take charge. Instead of pausing when he saw a stranger at his friend’s door, the bald giant with a quick temper demanded the…
A pungent odor permeates an empty mosaic-tiled room inside a shuttered motel at 304 N. Krome Ave. in downtown Homestead. Mildew seeps through the walls. “Before I owned this place, it was a haven for crack addicts and prostitutes,” says the 43-year-old owner, Ernesto Perez, who bought the place for…
FIU Suspends Frat After Facebook Posts Reveal Drug Deals, Hazing, and Creep Shots
Andrew Mossberg made a painful mistake last month. He thought Miami Beach Police Det. Philippe Archer was a purse snatcher and tried to help the woman he believed was the victim. His thanks? Getting his face obliterated by the cop. In the early evening of June 26, the 50-year-old audio…
Carlos spent his first week of kindergarten sleeping in a hotel and then in a hallway. He lives with his dad, hulking King of Diamonds employee Alex Velasquez, in the Altos de Miami condo building in Little Havana, near Flagler Street and SW 22nd Avenue. His unit is one of…
Before it came for him, Dan Robinson watched the thing grow. It began as a bolus that descended out of the storm, projecting needle-like vortices that lanced the wheat fields near a lone pump jack. Columnar towers a hundred yards wide gathered and darkened against the pale light to the…
While news that Miami-Dade County decided to keep all existing libraries open may have seemed like a win, now Mayor Gimenez has released a new plan that could see some of those spared branches open for only 16 hours a week. That’s three to five hours a day for four…
Last month, Slate concluded that Miami has America’s worst drivers, while Hialeah is third. Well, Allstate came out today with their own version of the list and while those Miami-Dade cities didn’t do quite so bad, there’s still nothing to be proud of. According to Allstate, Hialeah has America’s fourth…
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Traitor! Judas! Backstabber! Apparently there is no “305 til’ I die (or get fired)” clause in Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra’s contract, because Spo gave a big pep talk to the Seattle Seahawks. Well, at least the Dolphins won’t be playing the Seahawks this season…
Governor Rick Scott will be in Miami tonight to grab dinner with former Gov. Jeb Bush, Board of Education chairman Gary Chartrand and State Senator John Thrasher. Of course, John Thrasher has been touted lately as a possible replacement for ex-Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. Though, Scott’s staff says tonight’s dinner…
A Florida woman placed in the back seat of a police cruiser after being arrested for a DUI somehow ended up in the front seat and tried to take off. Which may be the stupidest form of desperate escape, because you know they have tracking devices on those vehicles…
You can get away with killing an unarmed black teenager in this country, but you sure aren’t going to get away with lying to the courts about money. George Zimmerman’s wife Shellie pleaded guilty this morning to a misdemeanor charge of perjury after she lied about the couple’s financial situation…
It was another bucolic summer Sunday afternoon in a quiet suburb north of Orlando: the sun fading gently in the west, a distant thunderstorm rumbling in the distance, and 20-year-old Robin Campbell walking his dog down the block, completely butt-naked. When police came to check out what the nude dog-walker…
In 2011, New Times wrote about Ave Maria University, a $500 million Catholic catastrophe in the middle of the Corkscrew Swamp. Lawsuits, scandals, and a federal investigation threatened to ruin the pious project just four years into billionaire pizza mogul Tom Monaghan’s plans. Two years later, one of Ave Maria’s…
Just after midnight this morning, a stolen car was speeding through Liberty City when it clipped a light post and careened into a Miami Dade College building. The car exploded into flames, killing one person. Four survivors are in custody at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Incredibly, the entire episode was caught…
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With a special permit in hand, Walmart seems to be well on its way to finally plopping a superstore right in the middle of midtown. But now a group of anti-Walmart activists has filed an appeal claiming the City of Miami should have never approved the permit. See also: City…
Have you ever shared your name with a Hurricane? It makes for a rather odd week when Hurricane [Your Name] is churning toward Florida and threatening to destroy it. Well, environmental advocacy group 350.org has come up with a new way to name Hurricanes that would spare people who happened…
