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Video: False Report of Gunshots Sparks Minor Stampede Near Ocean Drive

After another year of fear-mongering news reports and an overwhelming police presence at Memorial Day festivities in South Beach, the worst gun-related incident of the weekend came after a false rumor of gunfire. A brief panic erupted around 8:15 last night near Ocean Drive, sparking a minor stampede that left one person injured.
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Florida’s Food-Stamp Crackdown Increased Arrests and Cost Money, Study Says

In 1996, Democrats and Republicans of all stripes were united in what they then referred to as "welfare reform," a project designed to make it more difficult for low-income Americans to obtain benefits such as food stamps or Medicaid. By making it harder to get assistance, politicos argued, the poor would try harder to get work. After passing a law banning felons with drug convictions from receiving food stamps, the feds said the reforms would also strike a blow to drug crimes.
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Immigrants Sent to ICE Custody After Paying Bail Sue Miami-Dade County

In January 2017, Carlos Gimenez became the first big-city mayor in America to capitulate to Donald Trump's hollow Twitter threats. Miami-Dade County was not, in fact, a "sanctuary" community, he said before ordering his jails to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement "detainer" requests. The county began holding immigrants for up to 48 hours on ICE's behalf. The county commission even ratified Gimenez's rule change a month later.
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The 20 Best Miami Songs of 2018

With the federal government shut down and Donald Trump tweeting angrily at anyone who dares defy him, it's safe to say 2018 was a shit year. We hope 2019 will be better, but let's be honest: It will probably be worse. But one thing that certainly wasn't shit this year...
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What’s in Your Weed? Touring Florida’s Marijuana Testing Lab

Medical marijuana is not at all like other prescribed drugs. It's a living, cultivated product. Whereas most pharmaceuticals are mass-produced according to recipes that result from chemical testing and engineering, cannabis is a crop. And just like tomatoes or soybeans, there's no real guarantee that one harvest will be the same as another.
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Secretary Says Asbestos at Miami-Dade Courthouse Gave Her Lung Cancer

There's no question the historic Miami-Dade County Courthouse, completed in 1928, is in bad shape. County commissioners have described the building as "hazardous" and "experiencing corrosion, rust, water intrusion, algae and mold penetration, termites, poor air quality, and potential asbestos exposure." Yet voters have been clear they don't want to pay to rebuild it.
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Azabu Offers Quality Japanese at Reasonable Prices on SoBe

What comes to mind when you think of Ocean Drive? Overpriced frozen margaritas? Rowdy, scantily clad revelers? The weirdest traffic jams on the planet? Well, try this on for size: a hushed place where your order is taken promptly and food arrives quickly. You'll be checked on periodically and, once...
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I Mom So Hard Brings Honest Mommy Humor to Hollywood

The internet has been a boon to modern moms in many ways. It has provided stay-at-home moms with contact and communication with the outside world. It has practically created the work-at-home mom. And just as important, it has given moms a way to vent, to get real — often with hilarious results.
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La Centrale Is Miami’s Most Ambitious Food Hall

La Centrale, the 6-month-old, 40,000-square-foot food hall in Brickell City Centre, might be the area's most massive experiment in eating. Started by a group of New York investors and first planned for Bloomingdale's flagship in New York City, it offers three stories filled with hundreds of types of Italian fare.
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Mentally Ill South Florida Man Starved to Death in Prison, Lawsuit Alleges

When Vincent Gaines was sentenced to five years in prison on robbery charges in June 2013, state officials recommended he be placed in a mental-health unit because he had regular visual and auditory hallucinations. So Gaines was transferred to the Dade Correctional Institution in South Miami-Dade County, where he was placed on a "boneless diet" that left the five-foot-nine man 40 pounds lighter — dropping from 190 to 151 — in just 18 months.