One of the (only) fun parts of driving in the traffic hellscape of South Florida is that you never know what you might see: a woman twerking on the roof of a car, a truck towing a flaming boat, or a man sprawled on his stomach on the hood of a Benz blazing in an express lane.
For almost a decade, urban explorer David Bulit has been making his way into forgotten properties scattered across Florida, including Miami Marine Stadium, Glades Correctional Institution, and the Aerojet-Dade rocket facility. Many of them have long, storied pasts, which the 29-year-old Hialeah resident recounts on his blog, Abandoned Florida, alongside his behind-the-scenes photographs.
Political gadfly Fane Lozman had just stepped up to the lectern at the Riviera Beach City Council meeting and begun speaking — this time about the arrest of a corrupt local politician — when one of the council members cut him off.
For months, Ford has been using Miami-Dade County as a testing ground for self-driving cars in a partnership touted as a way to reduce the area’s maddening traffic problems. Now, shiny new Transit Connect vans emblazoned with the words “self-driving delivery service” have hit the road to deliver for 70 local businesses.
Famed environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas lived most of her 108 years in an unassuming English tutor-style cottage in Coconut Grove. Inside the small house, the so-called Mother of the Everglades wrote her seminal book, The Everglades: River of Grass, and organized conservation efforts that would help save the vast, singular natural gem. She called her home “a workshop, more than a house.”
Being a baby isn’t all nap time and cuteness. There’s the whole diaper thing and the limited menu, plus strangers constantly getting in your face. It can be rough.
Broward Teachers Union president Anna Fusco was visiting Olsen Middle School to investigate problems reported to her by teachers at the school. When she came out of a bathroom, she found an angry principal. The school’s head administrator, Valerie Harris, told her, “We’re not going to have any further conversation” and “You need to leave campus.”
On November 2, 2014, Jennifer Harper called 911 about a domestic dispute with her husband. But when Broward Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the couple’s Weston home that night, they decided to take her, not her husband, into custody.
Ever since they found out the company that promised to bring their ideas to life was actually just a massive scam, the would-be inventors who lost thousands to World Patent Marketing have hoped to see the company’s CEO behind bars.
By the time Demarcus Semer’s headlights flashed through the living-room window of the Fort Pierce house, the rest of the guys were already inside. Most nights, the group of childhood friends got together to rap and play videogames at 20-year-old Rhashaad Owens’ North 19th Street home, a three-bedroom ranch with…
Since revelations surfaced last year of a blackmail plot against a commissioner with an undisclosed arrest for cocaine in his past, scandal after scandal has rocked tiny North Bay Village, a two-island town on the 79th Street Causeway. Now Miami Beach Commissioner Ricky Arriola is proposing a dramatic fix: He wants his city to take over the troubled village.
After WLRN caught him spreading misinformation about Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s referral to the controversial Promise disciplinary program, Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie blamed scattered record-keeping in the district. But a former assistant principal at the school where the program is housed now says Runcie is also misleading the public about how student discipline data is kept.
Critics have slammed Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie all day amid news that — contrary to Runcie’s repeated claims — Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz was involved in the controversial Promise disciplinary program before becoming a mass killer. Now Runcie is pushing back by blaming inefficient record-keeping and insisting he gave the best information he had at the time about Cruz’s participation in Promise.
WLRN dropped a bombshell report this morning: After months of denials from Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and other top officials, the district admitted that, in fact, Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooter Nikolas Cruz was assigned to the controversy-mired Promise program.
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio fired off a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding investigations into what Rubio called “alarming” claims made about Broward County Public Schools in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High mass shooting. Many of those claims have already been rebuffed by Broward administrators.
The strip search played out in broad daylight on a sidewalk near Mana Wynwood: As Wendy Matute screamed for help, two male Miami Police officers held down her arms while a female officer held her legs apart. Another female officer, Annette Delgado, unzipped Matute’s shorts, pulled them partway down, and reached inside to grab three baggies of suspected drugs.
Every year for nearly a decade, Fred Guttenberg took the stage at his daughter Jaime’s dance recital for a routine called “Dancing Dads.” The number featured all of the dance dads doing their best to follow choreography and ended with all of the girls joining their fathers onstage.
Last week, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv visited a gun range with his dad and practiced shooting an AR-15. He later posted about the experience on Twitter, where he uploaded a video of himself firing at a silhouette target.
As the white Chevy Tahoe hurtled toward Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Broward schools Superintendent Robert Runcie jammed an iPhone to his ear. Between a never-ending stream of calls from reporters and school staffers and politicians asking questions he couldn’t yet answer, he dialed Sheriff Scott Israel. Just a few hours…
Looking at an Instagram collage that featured Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz smiling for a selfie above a photo of a handcuffed woman on the ground, Civilian Investigative Panel member Courtney Omega had to double check his rank. “This is a captain?” she said during a Tuesday meeting of the…
Ever since Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior David Hogg began pushing for gun control in the wake of the massacre at his high school, he’s been a target for conservatives. An aide to Republican state Rep. Shawn Harrison called Hogg a crisis actor. Laura Ingraham blasted him for “whining” after being rejected…
After the mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, most Florida teachers were horrified by the push from President Donald Trump and GOP legislators to arm teachers. But one vocal Parkland faculty member — science teacher Sean Simpson — said he would be open to packing heat in the classroom.
