The condition that the Florida Marlins change their name to the Miami Marlins as part of the deal for their new stadium has been well known locally for years. But the baseball-loving world at large (which we assume does not care much about the Marlins otherwise) apparently learned of the news last…
Tourist Manuel Olguin wound up with three young women, whom he had met on the streets of South Beach at 3 a.m., in his hotel room yesterday morning. Unfortunately for him, this was not the beginning of a Cinemax-worthy fantasy. The trio ended up robbing him…
The death of an 18-month-old boy is being investigated by Miami-Dade homicide detectives after his body was found in an alleyway outside a Homestead day-care center yesterday afternoon around 3:30…
Joakim Noah aside, lots of sports stars are coming out in favor of GLBT rights. Few however are willing to take their convictions far enough to end up shirtless and oiled on the cover of a gay magazine. Then again, Miami Hurricanes legend Michael Irvin has never been like most…
If former Carol City High football star Willie Williams played his cards right, he’d be spending his summer locked out of the NFL. Instead he’s once again locked behind bars. Cincinnati.com reports Williams is being held in jail on charges of second-degree robbery in Ohio…
Today’s photo comes from Burnt Umber’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group.Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
Elisha Dawkins, the veteran of the Army and Navy who was jailed for passport fraud and subsequently found out he was not an actual American citizen, has settled his case. He will be allowed to walk free and will now be able to obtain legal American citizenship…
ll have our payday rituals. A 63-year-old man in Fort Pierce, for example, liked to hire a few hookers on Friday nights after he got his paycheck — different ladies every time if he could swing it. Prostitutes can certainly wear a guy out, so the man would fell asleep…
ast time rapper and former co-owner of The Source magazine Benzino was arrested in Miami Beach in 2001, he threatened to boycott the city. Of course, he didn’t, and Benzino (AKA Raymond Scott) was back in SoBe last week and was arrested for erratic driving. Police also found in his…
Update: The funding campaign seems to have been suspended by Kickstarter’s staff.Wanna get high? There’s not an iPhone app for that yet, but thanks to the ingenuity of Miamians there is now an iPhone case for that. A couple of local guys, according to their Kickstarter page, are trying to…
We’re actually kind of surprised it took this long for someone to appoint Kendrick Meek to something. The White House has announced that it will nominate the former South Florida congressman to a representative position at the United Nations…
Who knew the Casey Anthony verdict would have implications on the United States’ interpretation of the Geneva Conventions? According to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the failure of a Florida jury to convict Anthony proves the need to try terrorist suspects at military tribunals outside of the American legal system…
Today’s photo comes from Dkeros’ Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group.Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
Three California men accused of the brutal gang rape of a visiting college student at the Fontainebleau resort on Miami Beach will be allowed to walk free without facing trial. The state attorney’s office has dropped all charges, reportedly due to lack of evidence…
You might not know it from trying to find parking at Aventura Mall, but apparently Miamians love to do a good bulk of their shopping online. More than residents in any other major city in America, actually, and by a large margin…
Where do you take your pregnant wife for your first wedding anniversary after the very public exposure of your extramarital online dalliances forced you to resign your congressional seat? Miami Beach, apparently. And where do you dine so news of your apparently loving dinner gets leaked to the gossip press?…
LeBron James helped turn Miami, a pretty solid football town, into a major basketball loving city almost over night, but can he get people interested in the University of Miami men’s basketball team? The Heat superstar has inked a sponsorship deal with the Hurricanes team, and next season the team…
South Beach has played host to some of television’s worst reality shows, but we can’t imagine an hour of programming that will be more locally loathed than South Beach Tow. The show follows the family and employees behind Tremont Towing, the ruthless company that makes sure you’ll never catch a…
Dwyane Wade could be taking his talents across the ocean. The Miami Heat guard was in suburban Chicago with Chicago Bears (and former Miami Hurricanes) player David Hester while the two were hosting camps for kids. Wade told the AP he’d be open to playing for the foreign league if…
Somehow all crazy things in Miami-Dade County are connected. Rolando Gutierrez, the second Miami Beach cop fired today for this weekend’s bizarre ATV crash, is married to Marisleysis Gonzalez. She’s better known as the woman who was Elian Gonzalez’s “foster mom” while he was in Miami…
Today’s photo comes from kafoster27’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group.Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
Tallahassee finally got around to putting an end to Florida’s out-of-control pill-mill mania, and the move couldn’t have come soon enough. New numbers released today show that deaths linked to prescription pill overdoses were up 61 percent between 2003 and 2009, and 16,650 Floridians were killed by prescription pill ODs in…
