Real estate is a game of bravado, especially in Miami Beach where multi-million dollar penthouse suites fly off the market every week to a dizzying swarm of overseas investors. Kevin Tomlinson, a 48-year-old with One Sotheby’s International Realty, knew how to play that game as well as anyone, bragging on…
This past March, Killian High School was rocked by a shocking attack — a 17-year-old female student stabbed 15-year-old star football player DeAndre Johnson in the chest, leaving him clinging to life. Then news emerged of an alleged crime that had sparked that assault. Months earlier, the female student had…
Jeisa Chiminazzo and Oliver Ripley are a couple out of a modern day fairy tail. She’s a transfixing Brazilian supermodel, discovered at the age of 13, who has appeared on the cover of at least 5 international editions of Vogue, modeled for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and starred in campaigns…
Police received reports that a three-year-old child had been shot in the head inside of his Little River home. Though police have not confirmed the details surrounding the incident, his mother tells The Herald that the child was crawling around, found a loaded gun in a drawer, and accidentally shot…
The body bobbed to the surface of Biscayne Bay right along a seawall behind Mount Sinai Medical Center February 6. Judging by her blond hair and small frame, passersby at first told the media that a teenager had been pulled from the cool water. But five days later, police announced…
Efrain Veiga was perhaps one of the hottest restauranteurs in Miami back in the ’90s. His Yuca restaurants (one of which, under different ownership, still operates on Lincoln Road) helped to put Cuban fusion cuisine on the map, and Veiga also had a celebrity boyfriend in Billy Bean, the former…
Miamians are known for being hot headed and a bit rude, but come to think of it, the entire state of New Jersey isn’t exactly known for their even tempers or mild manners. One would think that a Miamian’s stereotypical attitude might actually fit in fine there actually, but apparently…
Like so many others, Yovaris Pardo fled Havana and seemed to have found a happy new life in South Florida. In 2004, Pardo and her husband Rogelio built a four-bedroom house in Homestead; eventually, the couple had three boys, who loved laughing and dancing with their parents by the pool…
“I had just came in from out of town,” Yathomas Riley tells a Lee County, Georgia 911 dispatcher. “And my wife — I don’t know what’s going on, but she’s in a room, and she got blood coming out of her.” A young child screams in the background. It’s 8:30…
It’s been a busy day for U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office, and a (thankfully) bummer of a day for South Florida ISIS-sympathizers. On the same day Ferrer and Piro took part…
Harlem Suarez wanted to bring terror to the Conch Republic, according to the FBI. The 23-year-old, also known as Almlak Benitez, was arrested after Feds claims the uncovered a plot in which planned to build a bomb and then plant it under the sands of a Key West beach. Suarez…
Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer’s awkward but emotional accidental reunion with a former middle school classmate who stood before her as a defendant in bond court went viral earlier this month. Well, Glazer just took a vacation on the Carnival Breeze and when she got back to work on Monday she…
An 80-year-old man suffering from advances Alzheimer’s disease stabbed his to death on Sunday afternoon at their home in Southwest Miami-Dade and then drove to Publix to report it. According to police, Abner Peckman Lawton stabbed his wife multiple times at their home near Southwest 90th Street and 103rd Avenue. Then, with…
Smart Amanda Wiz was three years old, with reddish brown fur, pointy ears, and a distinctive white mark above her nose. The Western Reining horse was beloved by her owners and had recently competed in her first show. Early Thursday morning she was found dead in the Hialeah field near…
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced today that they will not be bringing charges against Miami Beach police officer Jorge Mercado for the Stun Gun-caused death of 18-year-old graffiti artist Israel “Reefa” Hernandez-Llach. Back in August 2013, Hernandez-Llach was caught tagging a shuttered McDonalds on 71st Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach…
Last May 4, 23-year-old Ernesto Hernandez just wanted to help. Hernandez was a big guy who had recently graduated from the police academy. Like dozens of others he had come to the Nixon Sandbar, off Key Biscayne, to spend the day on the water; when he saw the boat operated…
As the Cuban flag was raised over Washington, D.C., on Monday, some 20 anti-Castro demonstrators gathered outside Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana to protest warming relations between the U.S. and Cuba. In Washington, a man rushed the embassy gate with red paint splattered across his shirt, yelling “This is Cuban…
One year ago, Dan Markel pulled into the driveway of his Tallahassee home, opened the door slightly, and was suddenly shot in the head. The nationally recognized, 41-year-old FSU law professor died a few hours later. His death rattled the FSU campus and entire academic legal community, down to Miami, where…
Miami prosecutors have charged a South Florida man today with multiple crimes after investigators stumped him with a simple question: “Where’s The Beef?” Carlos Hernan Del Valle, a 61-year-old Weston, has been arrested and charged with grand theft and organized fraud for his role in a meat exporting fraud scheme that…
On May 28, 2013, 44-year-old Anthony Lee — a drag queen who went by South Beach Wanda — went to his friend Tiffany McKinney’s house in East Tampa. He heard she was sick and came over to make her dinner. When someone knocked on the door, Lee answered it. McKinney…
Shots rang out late Thursday afternoon in Homestead. Officer Anthony Green was believed to be responding to a 911 call about a man with a gun hanging from his belt. Through the passenger window in his patrol car, Green made contact with Edward Foster, a 35-year-old father of six. There…
In 1999, two Florida tweens made headlines when they shot and killed their father’s 29-year-old girlfriend, Sonya Speights, with their father’s 9mm semi-automatic as she worked on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle in their home just outside Cocoa Beach. Thirteen-year-old Catherine Fairchild Jones fired the first shot into Speight’s torso and…
