Following a flawed 2019 internal investigation by the Miami Police Department, a second review of a motorcyclist's death on the Rickenbacker Causeway in 2018 — ordered by Chief Jorge Colina after outside scrutiny — has determined that an unknown City of Miami officer was in fact pursuing the group of bikers at a high rate of speed. The conclusion from the department's Professional Compliance Section was not based on new evidence, but rather a review of video footage previously viewed by the...

Most Florida prisons are more than 40 years old. The state's oldest facility, the Union Correctional Institution located between Gainesville and Jacksonville, was built in 1913. Across the Sunshine State, the use of air-conditioning did not become widespread until the 1950s and '60s. Therein lies the problem. The majority of state prisons are not fully air-conditioned, a shortcoming the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) has attributed to their age. Nevertheless, a 2019 report from the...

Good morning! How'd you sleep last night? Were you kept awake by your crippling thoughts of Miami's ever-rising coronavirus case count, or perhaps by nightmares of being snatched into an unmarked van by your very own government? Fuggetaboutit! The year of our lord 2020 has another ghoulish surprise in store. Last night, the National Weather Service officially declared Tropical Storm Isaias the latest thing Floridians need to worry about. Meteorologist Jim Cantore tweeted this morning that the...

Well, that escalated quickly. Isaias became a tropical storm yesterday, and the National Weather Service has now issued a hurricane watch for the east coast of Florida from Deerfield Beach to the Titusville area. The current forecast has the storm moving over the Bahamas today, up toward Florida's east coast Saturday afternoon through Sunday, and on to the Carolinas early next week. The 11 a.m. advisory does not include any hurricane watches or warnings for Miami for now. That said, South...

On May 30, as protests swept the nation in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a demonstration in Miami turned chaotic as night fell. Protesters took their march onto Interstate 95. Officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a crowd near a Miami Police Department parking garage. Looters targeted shops at the nearby Bayside Marketplace. At the scene, Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz captured a striking image of a person waving an upside-down American flag while a police...