Editor's note: Below is the ninth of ten major stories Miami New Times published about the federal government's dogged pursuit of Augusto Falcon and Salvador Magluta - AKA Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, AKA Willy and Sal, AKA "Los Muchachos," AKA "The Boys" - two Cuban-American boyhood friends from Miami...
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Florida is back to draining swamps, and for once, it's not the Everglades. Long considered one of the most corrupt places in the country, the Sunshine State is apparently raising the bar when it comes to transparency around ethics enforcement.
Veterans Day commemorates the end of World War I, when the guns fell silent across the Western Front at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Since that time, average global temperatures have increased by an average of 1.5 degrees — and experts say that's no doubt affecting today's U.S. military operations.
Boynton Beach's brewery district, like any special district defined by a particular characteristic, is bound together by its cluster of brewing companies. The city joins a tiny club of municipalities in South Florida that have such an amenity. North Miami Beach made one in 2018 to entice new or already...
Prisoners, in general, should not be sitting in solitary confinement. It's a form of torture. But they absolutely should not be sitting in solitary during a historic Miami heat wave, when the heat index says it feels hotter than 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Miami summers have a way of defeating the weak-willed. Locals, who already don't go to the beach that much, truly stop sitting by the ocean. You start ordering takeout for dinner every night because it's too hot to carry groceries outside. Walking your dog for 15 minutes will annihilate any hairstyle and force you to take a shower before doing anything else that day.
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Friday afternoon, a simulated jail cell was placed on the University of Miami's campus to raise awareness about the lack of air conditioning and ventilation in Florida's state prisons.
With all of the reflecting and reminiscing for the 2010s over and done with, now's as good an opportunity as any to look ahead to the next 10 years, specifically, the upcoming decade in Miami sports. While it's impossible to predict whether or not the Miami Heat's Bam Adebayo will...
Amidst controversy, Wynwood celebrated its first-ever LGBTQ pride event this weekend in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.
Tourists can't get enough of Miami. They love it so much they sport "I'm in Miami, Bitch" tank tops on South Beach. You might turn your nose up at visitors and avoid the places they frequent, but you can't really blame them for their enthusiasm. Miami is an escape that offers the sun and sin lacking back home.
Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement published midyear crime statistics that show Miami-Dade County is still the worst place in the state to be a victim of a crime. The data shows that in the first six month of 2018, Miami-Dade County has solved the fewest percent of reported crimes of any county in the state.
You were probably busy crying in the corner. Maybe you were watching videos of long-ago Heat championship parades, Marlins World Series victories, or the Dolphins' undefeated season a half-century ago. So you might have missed this bit of unsurprising news: Everything sports in South Florida — from Sawgrass Mills Mall down to Bayside Marketplace — is a big ol' pile of depressing.
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Local acts INVT, True Vine, Sister System, Jonny From Space, and other will celebrate the United States' foremost consumerist holiday in style by bringing it back to basics.
It's 2019 and Florida lawmakers still want to debate the existence of evolution and human-caused climate change. For that, you can thank longtime state senator and proud son of the Confederacy, Ocala's Dennis Baxley, who recently teamed up with a fringe-right, virulently Islamophobic group to push yet another anti-science bill.
Traditionally, police need two to three months to collect, process, and analyze DNA samples. But with a new kind of technology recently adopted by the Miami Police Department, the entire procedure can be wrapped up in less time than it takes to watch a movie. Soon enough, the agency says, it'll be able to analyze a suspect's DNA before he or she is even released from custody.
Publix remains one of the most popular and beloved retail chains in the entire South, despite the fact that the Fortune 100 corporation has been repeatedly accused of mistreating its LGBTQ workers. The chain has been fighting anti-gay accusations for years — but instead of working to rid itself of...
These days, the U.S. Army predominantly recruits from Southern states. According to 2013 enlistment data, Georgia and Florida have two of the nation's highest per-capita rates of locals joining the Army. However, a study released earlier this month by researchers at the Citadel, one of the military's major universities, issues a warning.
Waffle House has been there for you at your best and worst moments, from picking up bae at the Fort Lauderdale airport at midnight, to nursing a hangover over biscuits before the night is even over. Now, Waffle House might also be there for you for some or all of...
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Here are the fun-filled places where the attractions and shows are worth the long lines and overpriced nachos.
The Miami Hurricanes are 10-0. They're locked into their first appearance in the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game, where they'll take on the Clemson Tigers at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium December 2. And if the Canes can win four more games in a row, they'll be national champions for the sixth time.
Some of Miami's business and political elite have argued that because it might be impossible to stop the effects of climate change, we should let the city flood, capitalize on it, and perhaps become a 21st-century Venice. Vanity Fair has reported that some Miami high-rises are now being built with "washout floors" designed to take consistent flooding.
For years, the FBI has been pushing police to adopt "rapid DNA" testing technology, which would let cops quickly obtain the kind of analysis that crime labs usually take months to pull from hair samples or cheek swabs. But privacy experts have long warned that the emerging technology could also lead to huge databases of DNA used for all sorts of reasons by the federal government or local forces.