News flash: Your Marlins baseball club is building a new stadium that will cost taxpayers $4.7 bagillion and, far more tragically, will probably not be sponsored by Jimmy Buffett’s crappy beer. In happier news, they will also drop the “Florida” from their name — as if they were ever really…
Less than an hour after midnight New Year’s Eve, a bullet fell from the sky and plunged into the chest of a 6-year-old Italian tourist hanging out in the Design District with his family. City leaders were horrified and immediately set about to help the victim: Miami’s good image. OK, OK,…
Last week, the U.S. narrowly avoided a terror attack from a Nigerian man flying from Holland and acting on orders from Yemen-based terrorists. For counterterrorism experts, there was only one logical response: ironclad new security rules for Cuban travelers. Say whaaaaaa? OK, geography might not be a strong suit at TSA headquarters…
First, let’s give the feds some credit.If the Miami Herald’s Sunday story updating the Allen Stanford Ponzi-o-rama is accurate, it took the daily only about ten months to finally begin probing the dozens of federal officials who took millions in cash from the (alleged) scam artist and then looked the other way…
Back in February, I visited the Guantanamo Bay prison camp during President Obama’s inauguration. At the time, it sure seemed like I was witnessing the last days of a ugly chapter in American history. Obama’s first act as president was an order to close the place. The head of the…
In 2001, a start-up phone company set up shop in a Miramar office park, looking to corner the market on international calls from Little Haiti to Port-au-Prince.It was a great business plan in Miami. Unfortunately, according to the feds, the company’s execs decided there was only one way to make…
Revolico isn’t just the best place on the web to ogle rusted-out Yank tanks for sale in Havana. As we wrote in September, it’s also the most remarkable example yet of how the Internet is changing life in Cuba, whether the Castro brothers like it or not.So we were pissed…
A good lesson for Art Basel-goers: If you try to get millions in art for a buck, a cup of coffee, and a hastily brandished firearm, you’re going to have some trouble with the fuzz. Miami-Dade Police have arrested a local man accused of stealing millions of dollars in paintings…
There’s a reason David Lynch long ago joined the small pantheon of adjective-ized American artists alongside Hitchcock, Kubrick and Bon Jovi. (What? You’ve never heard a Bon Jovian song?)The director’s tightrope walk between macabre and mundane was plastered all over the walls of OHWOW last night in a show that,…
The California judge overseeing the long and bloody fight between Doral-based clone-maker Psystar and Apple has accepted a settlement between the two firms, setting the stage for Psystar to keep fighting in appeals court. Judge William Alsup’s order leaves Psystar on the hook for $2.8 million in damages plus legal fees to…
Don’t write Psystar’s obituary just yet. Psystar, which we recently profiled in depth, has been locked in a heated legal battle with Apple since last year because the tiny Doral-based firm sells unauthorized “clones” of Mac computers, running Mac OSX on PC hardware. Apple claimed copyright violations, and on Nov…
The Panthers aren’t exactly having the finest season on ice. They choked away their third game in a row last night, dropping to 10-12-4, good for the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference.But it wasn’t the 4-3, last-second loss to the Thrashers last night that stung like a Paula Deen…
Dear Miami: Think about this the next time you hear Lou Dobbs or Glenn Beck slobbering about the evils of immigration.Almost half of Miami’s workforce was born outside the U.S. of A. Take away Miami’s immigrant workers and you’re left with Tulsa by the Sea.So says a new report issued this…
Police across South Florida are on the hunt for a Miami man this morning suspected of gunning down four relatives at a Thanksgiving party in Jupiter last night.Paul Michael Merhige, a 35-year-old with no significant police record, is suspected of walking into a party packed with 17 family members and…
We’re not sure how many surveys you need to tell you what you already know — namely that Miami International Airport is to flying what George W. Bush is to presidencies. But hey, it’s Thanksgiving, so consider this your excuse to do the thanksy-dance that you’re not staring at a…
Should South Miami-Dade teen Dewayne Pinacle get life in prison for rape and robbery?
The sad saga of Marlon “X-Large” Moore has come to an end with a decidedly un-X-large prison sentence.Moore, you may remember, was arrested this summer after one of the best diabolical schemes ever hatched somehow failed to net him a $14 trillion payday. Fresh out of the federal pen after…
View Larger MapIn a bizarre coincidence, two men died and another clings to life this morning after separate shootings 15 miles apart at virtually the same time. The deadly hour was 6:30 a.m. One shooting left 43-year-old Conrado Antigua Gallardo dead on the street at 1550 SW 131st Ct.. in…
If there was any lingering confusion about why Tomás Regalado chose his old friend Miguel Exposito as Miami’s new chief of police, the veteran officer quickly cleared it up at his official introduction earlier this afternoon.Flanked by the surviving members of our quickly shrinking city commission, Exposito delivered a speech…
View Larger MapWelcome to the hot seat, Miguel Exposito.Just a few hours after Tomas Regalado named his choice for new chief of the City of Miami PD, the first murder of the not-yet-official Exposito era crackled across the police radio. The details are still sketchy, but sometime before 8:15 p.m…
The only free Liberty City Seven member, Naudimar Herrera, sticks up for his jailed comrades
At Northwestern University, there’s a remarkable student-led initiative called the Innocence Project. Since 1991, the J-school program has helped free 11 wrongfully convicted men with good old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting on the flawed cases. In the case of Anthony McKinney, sentenced to life over a 1978 shotgun killing, it looked like…
