Jury duty is time well served

I’m sitting in the jury-pool room at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, home to Miami-Dade’s criminal courts, serving my time on behalf of the American justice system.

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Operation Migration marks decade of helping cranes

An effort started a decade ago to return the whooping crane to its original numbers in eastern North America seemed outlandish at the time but Operation Migration is still going strong.

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The Dolphins Nearly Pulled It Off This Time. Honestly!

The Flying Bag of Penis that is the Miami Dolphins nearly went and fucked things up by almost winning a game yesterday. But Suck For Luck is alive and well after the New York Giants woke up from … Continue reading “The Dolphins Nearly Pulled It Off This Time. Honestly! ” > Read More

The Dolphins Nearly Pulled It Off This Time. Honestly!

The Flying Bag of Penis that is the Miami Dolphins nearly went and fucked things up by almost winning a game yesterday. But Suck For Luck is alive and well after the New York Giants woke up from … Continue reading “The Dolphins Nearly Pulled It Off This Time. Honestly! ” > Read More

Miami Cop Fausto Lopez’s 120 MPH Turnpike Drive Caught On Video

​How often does one grainy police video end up capturing the best and worst of local cops? One on side, there’s Fausto Lopez — a 35-year-old Miami police officer whose name immediately joins th… Continue reading “Miami Cop Fausto Lopez’s 120 MPH Turnpike Drive Read More

Federal court refuses to speed up review of new Florida election law

By Mark Matthews in our Washington D.C. Bureau WASHINGTON — A federal court today denied a motion by Florida to speed up a judicial review of controversial changes to the state’s voting laws — a decision that all but guarantees Florida will hold its Jan. 31 presidential primary under two Read More

Occupy Miami Is Growing In Numbers and Ideas

“I slept here last night during the Occupy monsoon,” protester Eduardo joked about his time of damp tent living. The torrential rains and some flooding of the campsite didn’t keep 60 people from … Continue reading “Occupy Miami Is Growing In Numbers and Ideas” Read More

Driver accused of hitting sign-waver: ‘I thought I hit a stop sign’

A sign of the time: Being a human billboard is downright dangerous work. You stand near busy roads waving a sign and hope folks who are passing within feet of you aren’t drunk or texting. Etem Alajbegu, 27, is accused of driving a Porsche SUV onto the sidewalk and fatally striking Read More