If you’ve been having a harder time trying to find a random stranger at the club with an extra bump, there might be a good reason for it. There’s been a staggering 40 percent drop in the number of Americans who use cocaine since 2006. “I’ve never seen such a…
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Despite reports that the Miami Heat would not use the NBA’s amnesty clause this offseason, several Heat beat reporters are tweeting that Mike Miller’s agent has been informed that the veteran would be waived under the rule…
Hearing the words “Cuba,” “Missiles” and “North Korean,” tends to make most Americans uncomfortable, and now international officials are trying to figure out the mystery of why exactly those words all ended up together in this headline…
Tremaine McMillian, the 14-year-old boy who was forced to the ground and head-locked by Miami-Dade Police because, among other things, they claimed he was giving them “dehumanizing stares,” had his day in court this morning. McMillian was also facing two unrelated charges, but all charges will be dropped on the…
LeBron James is going to get a second ring this summer. This one will be of the wedding variety. TMZ reports that invitations to the September wedding between James and fiancée Savannah Brinson have gone out to guests, but the invites are low on details. In fact, guests are instructed…
“Just because you’re shaped like some combination of a gun and a dick doesn’t mean you have to act that way,” said Daily Show guest host John Oliver during the show’s recap of the George Zimmerman case. He also suggested that Florida change its nickname from “The Sunshine State” to…
Brian Deutzman braces himself against the pounding surf just off South Beach and slowly waves his fluorescent-colored metal detector underwater. His eyes narrow as faint electronic beeps resonate in his oversize headphones. Tall, pale, and draped in a thin white shirt, he looks like a combination of a hipster Ghostbuster…
Want to know where to go and what to do in Miami? Your essential mobile guide — also known as our Best Of app — just got better. You already know you can count on the Best Of app to offer restaurant, shopping and nightlife recommendations from Miami New Times’…
After 20 years of escaping justice, a Miami doctor who allegedly sexually abused his vulnerable HIV-positive patients has finally been convicted. Homer L. Kirkpatrick, Jr., whose brand of bad medicine earned him the moniker “Doctor Scumbag” in South Beach during the mid 1990s, pleaded guilty earlier this month to forcible…
With County Mayor Carlos Gimenez changing his mind on a tax increase, it’s looking more and more likely that 22 of Miami-Dade county’s 49 libraries will shutter next year. After a week of opposition to his proposed property tax increases, Gimenez will recommend to county commissioners today that no increase…
Right or wrong, the rest of the nation has been side-eyeing Florida ever since the George Zimmerman verdict came down. Even though the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law was not ultimately used as part of Zimmerman’s defense, a new petition is circulating online in which signees claim they’ll boycott Florida…
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Monty Ray Grow spent two years in the NFL with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs, and spent his college years with the Florida Gators. He spent last night in jail. The former footballer was arrested after leaving a three-year-old girl in a car while he went into the…
Just two days after delivering the verdict, a juror in the George Zimmerman trial has already signed with a literary agent in order to write a book. But the juror, known publicly at the moment only as “Juror B37” isn’t exactly a big fan of reading. She says she uses…
If you’re a Miami Beach resident who, say, has a job on the mainland, coming home from work tonight will be the last time you can use the flyover that connects the MacArthur Causeway to Alton Road for about a month. As part of the Alton Road reconstruction project, the…
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office likes to post a “Fugitive of the Day” on their Facebook page. The posts tend to get a few dozen comments, but usually not from the person actually pictured in the mugshot. Well, Matthew Oliver saw his pic up on the page and started commenting…
Dozens of news vans surrounded Arthur Jackson III’s church on Sunday, but the TV crews didn’t stick around long when the pastor announced that Trayvon Martin’s mother wasn’t coming. Sybrina Fulton didn’t show up at the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church’s services because she was still processing George Zimmerman’s acquittal. The…
After Trayvon Martin’s supporters mourned Saturday’s not-guilty verdict, hundreds of thousands have turned to the Department of Justice to urge the feds to make a second attempt to convict George Zimmerman of civil rights violations. The DOJ has confirmed that its inquiry into the case remains open, but mass public…
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old boy from Miami-Dade County, and tonight several high-profile members of the community took to Twitter to express their reaction to tonight’s verdict. Many sent their prayers to the Martin family and expressed grief over the results. See also: George Zimmerman Verdict: Not Guilty…
George Zimmerman has been found not guilty in the shooting death of Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin. After sixteen hours of deliberation, including 12 today, the six-person, all-female, all-white jury delivered the unanimous decision at 10 p.m. tonight. Apparently the jury could not remove all reasonable doubt that Zimmerman was…
The jurors of the George Zimmerman trial are now well into their 12th hour of deliberation, and have remained silent until now. Minutes ago the jury broke their silence for the first time to ask the lawyers on both sides for a clarification of the manslaughter charges. Zimmerman is facing…
