Miami-Dade
This Florida City Is Playing "Baby Shark" on a Loop to Push Homeless People Out
They're trying to keep people from sleeping at a pavilion that brings in big event fees, primarily related to weddings.
The FBI’s nationwide manhunt for the bomber zeros in on Florida
“Some of the packages went through the mail. They originated, some of them, from Florida.”
Florida mayors are suing Rick Scott for making local gun control impossible
A 2011 law allows the state legislature to punish mayors who try to enforce stricter gun laws.
Miami Officials Say They Won't Check IDs at Hurricane Shelters
Though some counties warn that they will be, which puts undocumented immigrants, sex offenders, and people with outstanding parking tickets in imminent danger.
Scientists and Activists Use Data to Give a Platform to People of Color
Data for Black Lives turns the tables on institutional racism.
The Complicated Connections Between Legal Hydroponics and the Marijuana Black Market
In states like Florida where most weed is still illegal—even for medical reasons—hydroponic gardening stores are battlefronts in the war on drugs.
Judge dismisses lawsuit against Miami cops who killed mentally ill man
The officers were accused of wrongful death and violating the civil rights of 25-year-old Lavall Hall, a black man who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
US declares health emergency in Puerto Rico over Zika outbreak
Officials said there were 10,690 laboratory confirmed Zika cases on the Caribbean island of 3.5 million, including 1,035 pregnant women, and that by year's end a quarter of the island's population could be exposed.
This Florida City Has Been Nearly Destroyed by Poverty and Corruption
Opa-Locka might just be the most corrupt city in Florida, which is really saying something.
How Parents Are Trying to End the 'No-Snitching' Culture of Gun Violence in Florida
The mothers of Miami shooting victims are determined to protect the identities of people who talk to cops. But some fear a new law would deny suspects the right to face their accuser.
The Problem of America's 'Warehousing' of the Mentally Ill in Jails
A panel at the American Justice Summit takes a look at how America's jails became filled with the mentally ill, and discusses how the system can be fixed.
How David Beckham's Miami MLS Stadium Deal Turned Into a Disaster
The English soccer star was supposed to bring the sport to Miami, but failed stadium proposals have him neck-deep in the all-elbows world of Miami politics.