Thomas Bryant scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 18 points and the Miami Heat tuned up for a trip to the play-in tournament by beating the Toronto Raptors 118-103 on Sunday. Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro each scored 17 for Miami, while Jimmy Butler scored 15, Caleb Martin 12 and […]
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Florida tops Buffalo 3-2 in OT to clinch home ice for Round 1
All Florida needed was one point to ensure its postseason run would start at home. And once that task was done, Sam Reinhart decided to put an exclamation point on things. Reinhart got his 55th goal of the season with 1:02 left in overtime, and the Panthers clinched home ice for at least Round 1 […]
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Lionel Messi scores ‘amazing’ goal in Inter Miami FC’s 3-2 win over Sporting KC
Lionel Messi scored his fifth goal and added an assist and Luis Suárez tapped in the winner in the 71st minute as Inter Miami CF defeated Sporting Kansas City 3-2 on Saturday night in front of the third-largest crowd in MLS regular-season history. Many of the 72,610 who filled Arrowhead Stadium to see Messi weren’t […]
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Four years later, Florida’s rescued coral thriving on SeaWorld’s ‘Noah’s Ark’
Four years after scientists raced around the Florida reef tract to rescue healthy coral amid an outbreak of lethal stony coral disease, a bunch still living on Key West time at SeaWorld in Orlando are thriving and making babies. “We’ve been able to basically condition the corals to believe they’re in the wild,” said aquarium […]
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DeSantis bans local governments from protecting workers from heat, limits police oversight boards
Florida is seeing two more recent instances of state government under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis limiting the powers of local government with newly-signed bills that deal with worker safety and police oversight. A bill signed Thursday bans local governments from requiring heat and water breaks for outdoor workers. And a bill DeSantis signed Friday strips […]
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Could Crossbridge Church vote put bayside property, school at risk?
Members of Crossbridge Church Key Biscayne are being asked to decide whether to give up direct control of the church and land on Sunday.
They will vote on amended articles of incorporation that would consolidate power in the three-person Session consisting of Pastor Felipe Assis and two Church elders. The Session would be able to make all decisions for the Presbyterian Church, the waterfront property, as well as the beloved school on the premises, a legal expert said.
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Public gets glimpse of new design for Key Biscayne library
Miami-Dade County unveiled renderings of the new $1.1 million sleek two-story library in Key Biscayne at the Village Council meeting this week. The design, shown to Council by the County’s Library Chief Ray Baker differs from the artsy concept on the Village’s website that had what looked like wooden bellows wrapping around the structure. The […]
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Big Dig chaos: Key Biscayne Council finally approves new stormwater system
The Key Biscayne Village Council Tuesday argued among themselves – for the umpteenth time – about the first phase of the Big Dig’s new stormwater system before approving a $35 million project that was recommended for months by staff and the Village’s own engineers. The 5-2 decision came after at least five Council workshops, multiple […]
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Victoria Méndez removed as Miami City Attorney
Victoria Méndez is no longer the City of Miami’s top litigator. Miami Commissioners voted Thursday to have Méndez step down as city attorney a full two months before her contract was set to expire. “We need to move on,” said Commissioner Miguel Gabela, who led an initial charge to remove Méndez from the post she’d […]
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11th grader wins T-shirt design contest for July 4 parade
A junior at MAST Academy won a contest to design the July 4 parade T-shirt this year. Victoria Nguyen,16, won $500 for her design of red, white and blue fireworks with a “Happy 4th of July 2024” in centerpiece. The artwork will be on T-shirts to support Key Biscayne’s celebration that includes its signature parade […]