Liz Marie Perez Chaparro was celebrating her quinceañera on a Carnival cruise with her parents last summer when an employee convinced the family to join an excursion in St. Thomas. What he didn’t mention, Chaparro’s family says, is that a heated gang war was raging in the area.Chaparro died on a tour…
Miami Beach mail carrier mauled by dog
Miami missed the rapture for many sinful reasons
Just another Tuesday night down at the Trailerama Trailer Park in Marathon last night, where a crazily bearded fellow named Fidel grabbed a rusty machete and attacked his roommate, who narrowly escaped a gruesome end by hurling cinder blocks at Fidel’s head. Life in the Keys!…
If Julio Robaina walks away with the County Mayor election today — despite scandals over Ponzi schemes, shady real estate deals and his support for the Marlins Stadium — there shouldn’t be all that much mystery about how he pulled it off. The latest campaign finance reports have come in,…
Want to know who will replace mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez on the County Commission? Too bad! The results will be secret thanks to a bizarre ruling last night by a judge who wants more time to decide whether candidates had enough time to file for the race. Even stranger is…
Last Monday, Lucretia McKinney was delivering mail on her route of mansions along Pine Tree Drive when she turned the corner to a horrifying sight: Mariana Cruz — former soft-core porn actress and wife of longtime Miami Beach Commissioner Simon Cruz — standing in front of her house with her…
We’ve all been waiting for this moment: the day South Beach claimed its first NFL lockout victim. Because even when pro football players have a job to go to in the morning, they manage to get arrested on Washington Avenue at a rate that would make Rod Blagojevich blush.Take away…
Remember the Eastern European B-Girls who worked for a Russian mob that allegedly set up fake nightclubs on Washington Avenue to rob single male tourists of tens of thousands of dollars? As if you could forget.Today comes news from Philadelphia that among the dozens of victims was John Bolaris, a…
The Marlins blew another game in late innings last night against the hapless Cubbies, but it wasn’t all bad news at Sun Life Stadium. A kind-hearted, completely buck-naked fellow with stringy caveman hair gave all the kids something to cheer about when he sprinted out to right center field late…
This week in gruesome and depressing Florida lawsuits: A Panhandle woman has filed suit against a local ambulance company for allegedly flushing her miscarried child down the toilet.Jennifer Ward says she called Lifeguard Ambulance Service last February when she started to miscarry, and that when the EMTs arrived they cut…
Guns online: No permit needed
The blogger-retaliatin’, Happy Holidays sign swindlin’, possibly ethics and campaign finance violatin’ reign of North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner has come to an end.Rosner lost a runoff vote last night to activist George Vallejo, who picked up 57 percent of the ballots cast. Au revoir, Myron! We’ll miss the…
Two years ago, New Times brought you the story of a handful of indigenous Bolivians who have taken to federal court in Miami to seek justice against their nation’s former leaders, who they say engineered a bloody massacre of protestors outside La Paz in 2003.The landmark case (one of the…
Stop us if this sounds familiar: An antagonistic South American strongman invites one of America’s worst enemies to build long-range missiles in his country, sending the region — and damn near the world — to the brink.Hugo Chavez apparently would love nothing more than to follow his buddy Fidel down…
The father-and-son Miami imams charged this weekend with aiding Pakistani terrorists will make their first appearance in court today at 1:30 pm as South Florida’s Muslim community tries to come to grips with the accusations.The Miami Herald says that the case against Hafiz and Izhar Khan is actually a bright…
Nikki Beach exec and Turks & Caicos leader accused in rape scandal
Miami police are looking for multiple gunmen with assault rifles who attacked a group in Liberty City early this morning, leaving one man dead and two seriously wounded.Dean Nathan Young, who was 45 years old, died shortly after he and two others were “ambushed” on the front lawn of a…
Basic values like “academic integrity” and “common decency” usually lead universities to accept big donations only under strict guidelines: namely, that the benefactors trust the school to use the money without meddling.So it’s really awful what’s going on up at Florida State University, where the Economics Department took $1.5 million…
Start with a premier so corrupt that the United Kingdom actually shut down his idyllic island’s government. Add a sexy beach resort trying to move into new territory. Top it off with a glass of spiked wine, a beautiful woman, and allegations of sexual assault. You’ve got either the plot…
On July 5 last year, Miami Police Officer Joseph Marin fired a single shot into the head of a 36-year-old, unarmed man named DeCarlos Moore during a traffic stop in Overtown. Moore’s death touched off a firestorm that has escalated in past ten months as MPD officers have killed six…
Wow. We knew you guys detested the Marlins Stadium deal, but now we’re afraid Miami needs some serious, professional therapy (or at least a big morning hit of Valium) to cope with the Little Havana boondoggle.We got nearly one hundred suggestions after we asked for a snarky nickname for the…
