As the Miami Heat nears the end of its season, longtime forward and team captain Udonis Haslem nears the end of his unique NBA playing career that has turned him into a franchise icon. With Haslem's final regular-season home game just about a month away, the Heat announced Sunday … | Continue reading
Are you at risk of losing your Medicaid coverage? Almost a million Floridians are slated to lose their Medicaid coverage starting in April once the federal COVID-19 emergency comes to an end. Florida is one of 11 states that did not expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act … | Continue reading
An Illinois police officer was caught urinating on an ice machine at a Florida bar, news outlets reported. A worker stumbled upon the officer and tried to get him to stop before the cop assaulted him on Monday, Dec. 5, according to police records and the Pinellas County Sheriff's … | Continue reading
OPINION AND COMMENTARY When Hurricane Ian began menacing the West Coast of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency. President Joe Biden then quickly approved an emergency declaration. That cleared the way for federal emergency assistance to the state.(miamiherald … | Continue reading
It was February 13, 2019. I was having a meeting in the offices of Rappler, the news site I helped create, when Beth Frondoso, who heads multimedia, burst into the room. She looked agitated. Our space is open, with glass walls, and I was sitting with my back to the office. I turn … | Continue reading
If the latest IMF and World Bank projections materialize, hunger and violence will escalate even further in Venezuela, and millions more will try to flee the country. | Continue reading
Plantation FL based augmented reality company Magic Leap announces $280 million in funding from Japanese cell phone provider NTT DoCoMo. The startup also reopens Series D round for more investment. | Continue reading
George Zimmerman has been kicked off yet another dating app. Alert Tinder users reported the fake profile. | Continue reading
Prosecutors said at a court hearing Monday Yujing Zhang, arrested at Mar-a-Lago with a bevy of electronics, ‘lies to everyone she encounters’ and that a search of her hotel room found $8,000 cash and a hidden-camera detector. | Continue reading
Miami-Dade’s school system and housing department have a plan to build low-rent apartments at Phillis Wheatley Elementary and at an expansion school at Southside Elementary in Miami. The rents would be targeted at teachers caught in a pricey real estate market. | Continue reading
U.S. Secret Service arrested a woman at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday who had a thumb drive with malware. She said she had been invited to Mar-a-Lago by a Chinese friend she identified only as ‘Charles.’ | Continue reading
A second Parkland shooting survivor killed himself, Coral Springs police confirmed. The death comes just about a week after a recent Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School graduate took her own life after being diagnosed with PTSD. | Continue reading
A second Parkland shooting survivor killed himself, Coral Springs police confirmed. The death comes just about a week after a recent Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School graduate took her own life after being diagnosed with PTSD. | Continue reading
Despite speculation that he might run for president, Andrew Gillum’s “major” announcement in Miami Wednesday was a roll-out of his initiative to register 1 million voters ahead of the 2020 election. | Continue reading
The Knight Foundation announced it will invest $300 million over the next five years to bolster local and investigative news, defend the First Amendment and educate the public on real news and accurate reporting. | Continue reading
The Knight Foundation announced it will invest $300 million over the next five years to bolster local and investigative news, defend the First Amendment and educate the public on real news and accurate reporting. | Continue reading
A Canadian crypto-currency exchange says the only password to investor accounts worth up to $190 million has been lost after its co-founder died unexpectedly in India. | Continue reading
Tom Brokaw’s ignorant comments about Hispanic assimilation and ‘brown grandbabies’ in the context of President Trump’s border wall are another ugly moment for America. | Continue reading
Last year, Miami Beach created a municipal prosecutor program to target “quality of life” offenses like drinking in public. The majority of the cases prosecuted involved homeless people, records show. | Continue reading
Newly released police and court documents offer a detailed look at Dale Leary, the Cutler Bay man who sexually abused exchange students for years before killing himself in 2017. One of his former students is suing CCI Greenheart, the company that cleared Leary to be a host, as we … | Continue reading
Miami-Dade County has more than 100,000 homes that still use septic tanks, a form of waste water treatment that sea level rise is breaking. More than half are malfunctioning now, and a fix could cost billions. | Continue reading
Tampa Bay Monitoring in Clearwater, Florida, offers parents sturdy GPS ankle monitors to put on their teens so they can track them. The service costs about $10 a day, and includes two-way communication and a piercing siren. | Continue reading
Palm Beach predator Jeffrey Epstein got away with ‘Lolita Express’ trafficking ring because powerful men like Trump Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta allowed it, making a mockery of Florida’s sex offender laws. | Continue reading
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary plea deal. | Continue reading
The University of Miami has raised objections to moving the Ultra electronic dance music festival to Virginia Key, where research tanks are, citing potential damage to fish. Turns out ocean noise pollution is on the rise. | Continue reading
After 46 years in public office, he finally met his match in Gov. Rick Scott, whose vast personal fortune, trademark aggressiveness and single-minded discipline proved to be just enough. | Continue reading
Miami-Dade launched its manual recount for the U.S. Senate race between Rick Scott and Bill Nelson at 7:31 p.m. Thursday. Just before 1:30 a.m. Friday, the operation shut down, with plans to resume at 8 a.m. | Continue reading
Attorneys representing the U.S. Senate campaign of Florida Gov. Rick Scott filed emergency motions in Broward and Palm Beach courts Sunday seeking to have state police and local sheriff’s deputies impound voting machines while not in use during a statewide recount. | Continue reading
The Miami-Dade County Elections Department began the process of recounting more than 800,000 ballots on Saturday after state officials ordered recounts in the races for U.S. Senate, governor and agricultural commissioner. | Continue reading
Amid accusations of incompetence, Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes accidentally mixed 12 rejected ballots in with 193 valid ones Friday night. | Continue reading
When it made landfall in Florida’s Panhandle, Hurricane Michael was one of those rare storms where a confluence of water and wind came together perfectly to build a monster storm. | Continue reading
Facing severe food and medicine shortages, Venezuelans are increasingly open to extreme options like foreign intervention and leaving the country in order to stay alive, according to a Meganalisis study. | Continue reading
Brookhaven officials say three crack pipe vending machines disguised as pen dispensers have popped up in Suffolk County on New York’s Long Island. They offer makeshift pipes for $2, authorities said. | Continue reading
Bank of America has been accused of asking citizenship questions and for proof of residency, then freezing customers’ accounts after failing to properly recognize their current residency status. | Continue reading
Ron DeSantis, Republican nominee for Florida governor, is accused of using a “racist dog whistle” after calling Democrat Andrew Gillum, who is black, “articulate” and saying his election would “monkey this up.” | Continue reading
A new genetic study of Florida’s invasive pythons found most are closely related and easily adapting to their new home. But a small number also show signs of crossbreeding between Burmese and Indian pythons that could make them able to live on a wider landscape. | Continue reading
Despite rising threats from pollution fueled by increasing development and climate change, Florida has repeatedly cut back on monitoring its water and providing critical data that scientists need to understand how problems like algae blooms and red tide occur. | Continue reading
Christian churches have been raided and Bibles confiscated as China’s officially atheist ruling party undertakes an ambitious new effort to dictate _ and in some cases displace _ the practice of faith in China. | Continue reading
Burro, or donkey, herds have nearly disappeared in one section of Venezuela as thousands were slaughtered for their meat by hungry Venezuelans suffering through a near-famine. | Continue reading
The next time you use Uber, check your bill. The trip could turn out to be very expensive, not just for the distance but for a type of fraud that is on the increase. | Continue reading
A Saudi "sultan" tried to con Jeffrey Soffer, the super-rich real estate developer behind Turnberry Associates, owner of the Fontainebleau resort hotel and Aventura Mall in South Florida. | Continue reading
The city of Miami has told scooter companies like Lime and Bird that they are not covered by existing legislation. So the companies are pulling out. | Continue reading
The Army judge in the 9/11 mass murder case is circulating a pretrial hearing schedule that makes clear the Guantánamo trial won't start before 2020, McClatchy has learned. The five men accused of plotting the terror attacks that killed 2,976 people on Sept. 11, 2001 were arraign … | Continue reading