LaSpada’s Throws Meat Because South Florida Loves Subs

Ricardo “Handsome Rick” Dunn was just starting out at LaSpada’s Hoagies when several bloody slices of roast beef sailed through the air and pelted his face. It was July 4, 2016. He was supposed to be making a sandwich. “You can’t arc it when you throw,” says Handsome Rick. “It’s…

WSVN Cut Away From End of Epic Dolphins Game to a Sitcom, Infuriating Fans

The Miami Dolphins opened their season with 28 minutes and 49 seconds of entertaining football against the Tennessee Titans. The Fins’ retooled offense seemed to be firing on all cylinders, the defense was holding its own, and the home-opener crowd seemed livelier than usual at Hard Rock Stadium. The Dolphins led 7-3 about a minute before halftime.

Pilots Protest DHL: “You Have a Foreign Company Controlling American Companies”

Pilot Mike Griffith and his colleagues at Atlas Air blame the firm that hires them, German delivery company, DHL, for depressing pay and even skirting American law. They claim that pilots who work for FedEx and UPS are paid $300,000 annually on average, while they receive half that. Benefits are better, too. DHL is based in Bonn. Its U.S. headquarters is in Plantation.

Miami Art Fair Heist Sparks Court Battle Over Stolen Painting

With Art Basel just a few months off, galleries and art collectors are making plans for a really big show. But they better be careful. Art thieves have been known to visit. And big money paintings are everywhere. Take Art Miami, for instance. Back in 2014, when a tent belonging to…

Burt Reynolds, Dead at 82, Had Deep Ties to South Florida

He was known for his iconic film roles in Deliverance and Boogie Nights, as well as that unmistakable ’70s porn stache. Burt Reynolds’ agent announced today that the iconic film star and onetime Hollywood sex symbol died of a heart attack earlier today in Jupiter.

Brett Kavanaugh Refused to Shake a Parkland Dad’s Hand at Hearing Today

As he’s done nearly every day since his daughter Jaime died in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February, Fred Guttenberg spent this morning trying to push for gun control. Today he made his way to D.C. for Senate confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh so he could ask Trump’s first Supreme Court pick where he stands on anti-gun-violence measures.

Mother Held by ICE Over Traffic Ticket Freed After Posting $20,000 Bond

Earlier this year, New Times detailed the horrific case of Maria, a 24-year-old who fled persecution in Guatemala, gave birth to multiple American children, and wound up jailed in an ICE detention facility in South Florida after she was arrested while trying to pay a $150 traffic fine. Speaking from inside the detention center, Maria told New Times in Spanish that she was allowed to see her three young children only an hour or two each week and that her 9-year-old daughter was afraid she’d also be detained if she visited her mom.

Ron DeSantis Was Reportedly an Admin of Racist Facebook Page

Click on a page called “Tea Party,” which boasts 94,000 followers and claims to be “the oldest and largest #TeaParty group on Facebook,” and you’ll find that one of the first posts this morning is a glaringly racist meme showing side-by-side photos of Melania Trump and a heavily Photoshopped Michelle Obama with the headline “Make the White House Beautiful Again.”

More Than 100 Female Candidates Won in Florida’s Primaries

This year, record numbers of women across Florida are mounting campaigns for office, most of them progressives motivated by anti-Trump fervor and emboldened by the Women’s March. The so-called Pink Wave had its first real test Tuesday, Primary Day. And the early returns suggest the wave is real.

DeSantis Already Compared Gillum to a Monkey on Fox News

After last night’s primary results made it official, Floridians assumed newly minted GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, a Confederate-flag bumper-sticker come to life, would run a wild, dog-whistling, and entirely Trumpian campaign against Democrat Andrew Gillum. But people perhaps didn’t expect DeSantis to start throwing around racial slurs this early…

Andrew Gillum’s Platform Inspired Florida Democrats for the First Time in Years

The running joke among Florida political journalists is that the state’s inept Democratic Party runs a centrist from Tampa every single year for governor. The past few decades of Democratic gubernatorial candidates have been milquetoast centrists who love palling around with their Republican colleagues in Tallahassee and sharing stories about staggering home from bars during their time at FSU. Florida, it seems, does not create populist firebrands.

Embattled Marjory Stoneman Douglas Teacher Bypassed Campus Security, Yelled at Administrators

In September 2015, social studies teacher Fran Wernersbach was reassigned from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High while the school district investigated a slew of allegations against her, including that she’d ridiculed her class, sworn at administrators, and spread rumors about a student. She was told to contact the principal if she needed to set foot on campus, because her daughter was a student.