David Beckham’s hopes of launching a Major League Soccer franchise in Miami took a giant step towards becoming reality Tuesday after city officials approved the sale of land crucial to a proposed stadium project. Miami-Dade County commissioners voted by 9-4 to approve the transfer of a three-acre parcel of land worth $9 million to Beckham’s … Read more
A gray dinosaur statue outside south Florida’s largest power plant is meant to symbolize two decommissioned fossil fuel reactors, but it also could be seen to represent a nuclear industry crumpling under mounting costs. Almost a decade ago, Turkey Point was aiming to become one of the country’s largest nuclear plants. Florida Power and Light … Read more
David Beckham is set to learn next month whether his long-gestating plans for a Major League Soccer franchise in Miami will come to fruition, it was reported on Friday. The Miami Herald said the Miami-Dade County Commission would rule on June 6 whether or not to approve the transfer of a three-acre site valued at … Read more
A US policeman who shot and wounded an unarmed black therapist who was trying to help an autism patient has been arrested and charged with attempted manslaughter, officials said Wednesday. The shooting happened last July in Miami outside a group home where the man with autism lived and behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey worked. It triggered … Read more
About one in 10 women in the United States who were infected with Zika virus while pregnant had a fetus or baby with deformities last year, US government scientists said Tuesday. The study released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracked 250 pregnant women who had confirmed Zika infection in 2016. … Read more
The appeal of programs that put at-risk youth on a path to redemption is as old as “Scared Straight!,” the groundbreaking 1980s documentary. Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, lends his celebrity to the similarly themed “Rock and a Hard Place,” which hews closer to reality TV than most of HBO’s nonfiction efforts. The film centers … Read more
Until Donald Trump became president, Kelsey Thomas spent her time studying, hanging out with friends and lounging on the beaches of Florida. But not anymore. Now she has become fiercely political, joining the new activist movement in America that has come to be called the “Resistance.” For Thomas, a 29-year-old university student, the turning point … Read more
Miami Marlins star pitcher Jose Fernandez had cocaine in his system when he and two friends were killed in a boat crash last month off Miami Beach, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s office said Saturday. Associate Medical Examiner Kenneth Hutchins listed “boat crash” as the cause of death and also said Fernandez was legally drunk … Read more
U. S. authorities said Thursday they have identified the first batch of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, where the first locally transmitted cases of Zika in the continental U.S. have been found. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said in a statement that three mosquito samples from a … Read more