Violent clashes between protesters and police in Hong Kong continue weeks after mass demonstrations in the city first turned ugly in June. The unrest, which began in response to a now-shelved bill that would have allowed for the extradition of people to China, has expanded to a wider struggle over Hong Kong’s sovereignty and the use of excessive force by law enforcement.
A Cooper City restaurant has been ordered to pay more than $88,000 to eight workers after a government investigation found it had violated multiple federal labor laws. Servers, bussers, and cooks at South China Restaurant, 5550 S. Flamingo Rd., were paid weekly or monthly salaries, rather than hourly wages. Though…
Parkland father Manuel Oliver isn’t just hopeful that gun laws will be reformed in the United States. He’s certain. “Sometimes I get frustrated because I don’t see the action [on gun control] that I want to see,” says Oliver, the artist whose 17-year-old son Joaquin was one of 17 people gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year.
Every summer, people of the Jewish faith commemorate the day of Tisha B’Av by fasting and mourning. The date memorializes the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem centuries ago. In modern times, Tisha B’Av has become an annual opportunity for activism or charitable acts — a time to practice tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching of “repairing the world.”
The most in-depth story done so far by local media on Miami Dolphins receiver Kenny Stills’ calling out his team’s owner Stephen Ross for political hypocrisy came from a local sports columnist. And it was one of the most pathetic examples of political commentary in memory. But before we get…
Just weeks after a pool boy was accidentally shot by an iguana hunter in their neighborhood, two enterprising Boca Raton teens began stuffing mailboxes with flyers advertising the pair’s extermination services.
Progressives, critics, and basically all people with moral backbones and souls this week are furious at Stephen Ross — the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the gym chains Equinox and SoulCycle, as well as an investor in many other ventures — for quietly planning to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.
Hey, did you hear? The Miami Dolphins are in the news again! We’re talking about an actual football game that happened last night on the football field at Hard Rock Stadium, which sits atop an Indian burial site that probably has nothing to do with the franchise’s long-term bad luck and overall failures.
Pembroke Pines officials said the city will not promote this weekend’s gun show amid cries from protesters for the city to cancel its contract with Florida Gun Shows.
State Attorney Mike Satz has been the top prosecutor in Broward County since 1976. He’s somehow won every single reelection bid, every four years, for the past 43 years. In that time, the criminal-justice world has changed around him.
Florida — home of armed iguana hunters, exploding toilets, and the nation’s grandparents — just so happens to be the perfect petri dish for algal blooms. Because blue-green algae absorb energy from the sun and quickly grow in warm freshwater, the Sunshine State offers optimal conditions for the microorganisms called cyanobacteria to thrive.
Scream at Popcorn Frights Film Festival, gawk at Grave Digger during Monster Jam, and delight in a beer-and-bacon pairing.
Federal immigration agents used limited parking outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Miramar as a pretext to racially profile drivers earlier today, activists say.
As the Florida Gun Show sets up for this weekend at Pembroke Pines City Center, a movement to shut it down is quickly gaining steam. One of the movement’s leaders is the League of Women Voters of Broward County, led by Barbara Markley, who piloted a similar fight in Fort Lauderdale, which has banned gun shows.
Tomorrow night marks the beginning of a shiny new season of Miami Dolphins football. The home team will take on the Atlanta Falcons at 7:30 at Hard Rock Stadium. Preseason or not, it feels good to look forward to an actual game.
At the time they were written, the words were just one teenager’s thoughts about Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Joaquin Oliver, an outgoing and athletic 17-year-old student whose parents brought him from troubled Venezuela for safe harbor in America when he was a toddler, let his feelings flow.
As Floridians continue to ponder the idea of a not-so-distant future in which weed is legal, Democratic state Rep. Shevrin Jones has moved for more sudden action. Yesterday he introduced a bill that would decriminalize possession of certain quantities of marijuana in Florida.
Saturday morning, a white-supremacist terrorist walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, sprayed the building with bullets, and killed 22 people while injuring 25 others. The shooter left a manifesto online stating he targeted the Walmart because he hates immigrants and wanted to kill as many as possible.
The morning of June 20, Michael Morell woke up as he did every weekday, when his alarm clock rang at 6. The 34-year-old father of two sat up and reached over to his bedside table to hit snooze. But when he attempted to lie back down, his muscles became rigid, leaving him frozen in a sitting position.
Wayne Messam is, for reasons that are difficult to explain, still running for president. When he announced his run, the mayor of tiny Miramar, Florida, tried to position himself as a Pete Buttigieg-style outsider, the sort of political newcomer who wouldn’t be indebted to Washington elites and could spout tough truths on the campaign trail.
The court battle over Florida’s abortion waiting period has been ongoing since state legislators passed House Bill 633 in 2015, requiring women to wait 24 hours after meeting with their doctor before having an abortion.
We all know Miami will be underwater sooner or later. But while some folks are plotting how to spend their Atlantean retirement down here, others are asking the all-important question: How much is it gonna cost?
