Grant Everett apparently thought he was in some even more twisted version of Grand Theft Auto. After crashing into a pole, he drove away then stopped to let his passenger out — a 7-year-old girl — and continued on his way only to crash into more things…
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice slammed City of Miami cops for a string of unjustified shootings. But Miami has new competition for the title of the state’s worst police department. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is currently investigating cops in Lakeland for having copious amounts of sex,…
Just in time for the latest round of Jeb for Prez speculation, the juiciest scandal tied to Florida’s former governor is headed back to court. The courts are revisiting a two-decades old charge that a company Bush cofounded spent millions bribing Nigerian officials with federally loaned money to secure a…
The verdict in the murder trial of George Zimmerman could come as early today, so in anticipation, the Miami-Dade Police Department has set up two “First Amendment zones” to try to corral protests and public gatherings. Never mind, of course, that all of America is technically covered by the First…
After more than 20 years of sitting in disrepair, Miami Marine Stadium is now closer than ever to returning to its former glory after the City of Miami Commission voted yesterday to give control of the stadium’s renovation to a nonprofit group. Now they just need $20 million…
Police routinely use Tasers as a (usually) non-lethal alternative to guns, but they can occasionally lead to potential lethal problems like heart attacks and cardiac arrest. People with pre-existing health problems may be more at risk. Well, sitting before the City of Miami Commission today, Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa…
If police have an X-ray machine, there’s really no place you can attempt to hide contraband. No, not even there. Cynthia M. Scholes of Gainesville was caught trying to smuggle not one, but two crack pipes into jail by hiding them in her vagina…
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Every incoming University of Miami freshmen must either pledge their allegiance to the studious kingdom of Stanford where they will be surrounded by intellectual nerds who do nothing but study or the wild land of Hecht which is home to drunken hedonists. Just kidding. Their identical (and quite ugly) pairs…
Disgraced former Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito is none too pleased that the Department of Justice found that his former department engaged in routine excessive force and violated the constitution under his watch. The man who was once caught on tape calling his own officers “predators,” now calls the DOJ…
The real estate market in Miami may be slowly recovering, but that’s not good news for everyone. Foreclosures in the Miami metro area surged last month with one in 236 housing units in the market receiving a foreclosure notice. That’s more than four times the national average. The recent surge…
The NBA off-season is less “off” and more a whole different full season as teams frantically try to keep up with the Joneses during a down time that begins just days after the finals. This week, free agency opened and teams began signing the players they think could put them…
A 19-year-old man from Sunrise has been arrested for catfishing local men, luring them to his apartment and relieving them of valuables. Police charged Glenford Williams with three felony counts of armed robbery on Tuesday. Using the name “Diana,” Williams allegedly used the social site Moco Space to entice his…
For years, Ultra Music Festival avoided the deadly drug overdoses that had done in many other mega-events. This year, however, Riptide revealed 24 people were taken to the hospital during Ultra. One of them, a 20-year-old New Jersey native named Anthony Cassano, died from a suspected drug overdose. But even…
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Raonel Valdez strolls through the quiet parking lot behind a salmon-colored Coral Gables apartment building. As dawn pales a warm autumn morning, the small-framed 33-year-old Cuban refugee with short, gelled black hair patiently scans a third-floor window, waiting for signs of life. Known to his cohorts as “Matojo” for his…
Tropical Storm Chantal was pronounced dead today at approximately 4:40 p.m. after dissipating in the Caribbean Sea about 260 miles south of Cuba. So all you relatively newly arrived folk who haven’t gone through this hundreds of times before can all stop freaking out. Though, Chantal’s remnants could still make…
“I inhale propane gas to get high, but I am not the least bit nutty,” Reid Welch once told New Times. Today a jury found differently. Welch has a had a number bizarre run-ins with the high-profile City of Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. The court found him guilty of 21…
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Miami-Dade is perhaps a bit more free-spirited than most American beach towns by designating a small sliver of Haulover Beach for nude sunbathing, but for Thomas Wittbold that wasn’t enough. Wittbold sued Miami-Dade County, alleging that not allowing him to be nude elsewhere in Haulover Park was infringing on his…
