Thirty-year-old Lytisa Small says that last November she was talking to her ex-boyfriend, Irrington Roberts-Isaacs, outside his home on NW 140th Street in Opa-locka when another woman approached. The woman, a friend of both Roberts-Isaacs and his current girlfriend, was incensed that Small was speaking to Roberts-Isaacs and smacked her…
Thirty-year-old Lytisa Small says that last November she was talking to her ex-boyfriend, Irrington Roberts-Isaacs, outside his home on NW 140th Street in Opa-locka when another woman approached. The woman, a friend of both Roberts-Isaacs and his current girlfriend’s, was incensed that Small was speaking to Roberts-Isaacs and smacked her…
First it was 228 Miami-Dade police officers facing layoffs, then it was 110. Now, apparently, it’s zero. At a press conference yesterday, Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos Gimenez said that no officer job cuts were now on the table for next year’s budget after he had come to new agreements with…
At a breakfast networking event in Wynwood this morning, Miami Parking Authority chief Art Noriega, addressing the ongoing parking changes that have rankled the neighborhood’s businesses, called Wynwood a kind of “Wild Wild West” of parking and said his agency is working to refine its system. “We knew that the…
After a summer that has seen the area’s deadliest spate of boating accidents in recent memory — and just a few days ahead of the upcoming Labor Day weekend — numerous county agencies announced at a press conference yesterday that they were forming a new task force aimed at cracking…
Amid rampant strife from local businesses over ongoing changes to Wynwood parking, the city’s parking chief, Art Noriega, is set to defend the new regulations in a discussion with the changes’ most vocal critic, local tech entrepreneur Mario Cruz. The parking showdown will commence later this morning at the neighborhood’s…
Two local residents are recovering after a crocodile bit them early Sunday morning in Coral Gables. And now they’re famous: “This is the first time that we’ve ever had a crocodile bite a human being in the United States,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) spokesman Jorge Pino told…
A video that surfaced last Friday on TMZ shows an early-morning brawl outside a nightclub in South Beach. Not all that unusual — except this one involves Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie wide receiver Mike Evans. And the two Miami Beach cops who appear in the frame do little more than…
More than five years after Miami-Dade County commissioners approved taxpayer funding for Marlins Park, the stadium is still so unpopular it’s inspiring political attack ads. Earlier this month, Miami-Dade residents began receiving colorful flyers plastered with images of the stadium and the smiling face of District 8 commission candidate Daniella…
A month and a half after Israel launched “Operation Protective Edge” in response to Hamas rockets — a military conflict that has now resulted in more than 2,000 Palestinian deaths and 67 Israeli casualties — Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine announced plans for a fall business trip. To Israel. And…
Wednesday evening, a cop in Key Largo saw two motorcycles whiz by on Overseas Highway at more than 100 mph. The cop, Dep. Brian Cross, decided it was too dangerous to pursue the two bikes, so he radioed an alert instead. Half an hour later, one of the motorcyclists attracted…
Amid searing criticism from the Miami-Dade County police union for a budget that had slated layoffs for nearly a quarter of its force, County Mayor Carlos Gimenez proposed a revised plan last night that would see the number of layoffs reduced by half, with a chunk of the savings coming…
Next Tuesday 400 Miami-Dade County police officers will gather in a large banquet hall at FIU’s football stadium in University Park, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. The occasion? A frank talk about the officers’ future unemployment. Under county mayor Carlos Gimenez’s current proposed budget, 228 officers — or about a…
After Miami Beach Police Sgt. Mike Muley was caught drunk while working an off-duty assignment at Mango’s last month, new Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates responded with a harsh edict: Beginning this month, MBPD cops are banned from working nightclub security jobs. The union balked, complaining that banning the…
For Karen Deilke, Coconut Grove’s monthly drum circle isn’t just a key piece of the neighborhood’s tight-knit artistic community and a vestige of its fading bohemian roots. The acclaimed Texas-born painter sees it as a way to give back and unite the area — especially the past two years, when…
For Karen Deilke, Coconut Grove’s monthly drum circle isn’t just a key piece of the neighborhood’s tight-knit artistic community and a vestige of its fading bohemian roots. The acclaimed Texas-born painter sees it as a way to give back and unite the area — especially the past two years, when…
When news broke last month that the University of Miami had sold an 88-acre plot of endangered pine rockland forest to a Palm Beach developer that planned to build a Walmart, environmentalists and activists were outraged. The rare forest is the only habitat of several species, most famously the Bartram’s…
After Miami Beach Police Sgt. Mike Muley was caught drunk while working an off-duty assignment at Mango’s last month, new Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates responded with a harsh edict: Beginning this month, MBPD cops are banned from working nightclub security jobs. The union balked, complaining that banning the…
Four were killed and several seriously injured in the Fourth of July Dinner Key boating tragedy, when a 32-foot Contender powerboat slammed into the side of a 36-foot Carrera. But the carnage might actually have been worse if not for the heroic response of a marine tow crew, which was…
When local developers Alex Mantecon and Guillermo Vadell bought the property at 123 SW North River Dr., they realized they had something of a logistical problem: The property had a prime location along the Miami River, but it was also sandwiched between massive, looming freeway bridges. “We kind of analyzed…
This weekend saw yet another death in a summer of tragedy on Biscayne Bay. Around 4:45 p.m. yesterday 39-year-old Jose Daniel Napoles was killed after the boat he was driving crashed into a pier at a small island across from Pelican Harbor then catapulted into a seawall, Florida Fish and…
It was 95 and humid today. It was 95 and humid yesterday. It will be 95 and humid tomorrow. So who’s ready to go ice skating? While eating gourmet food at a fancy hotel with exclusive access to the beach? Soon, you can actually do this! A new South Beach…
