No bond for Key Biscayne gymnastics coach accused of sexual battery of students

Thirty years ago, Florida enacted a law that gives prosecutors unfettered powers to try children as adults. A yearlong Miami Herald investigation reveals the impact and systemic disparities of the statute’s enforcement.

‘water has a shape’ is a 10-minute collaborative music and dance film, where the dancers explore the connection between the act of skating and the elements of a fleeting, frozen world.

In the span of just over a decade, Key Biscayne police received a series of complaints about a gymnastic coach’s allegedly abusive behavior with young girls, police reports and interviews with the Herald reveal.

A nonprofit is in charge of distributing the rapidly growing state funds. But financial troubles at one pregnancy center highlight gaps in its review of organizations that receive money.

A proposed draft of a physical education eligibility form in Florida was voted down Thursday night by the Florida High School Athletic Association. The form would have required high school student-athletes to reveal their menstrual history but it drew major concerns over a potential invasion of privacy and possible discrimination against transgender students. Miami Herald investigative reporter Clara-Sophia Daly joined Anne-Marie Green and Shanelle Kaul to discuss.

Being displaced is never easy, but having it happen today, with rents having soared, is particularly bleak.

A superheated real estate market has put unrelenting pressure on trailer parks, which are vanishing faster than ever, with a huge toll on residents.

Florida has nearly 160 “crisis pregnancy centers,” many affiliated with the Catholic Church. The centers, which do not receive significant medical oversight by the state, are enjoying a fresh infusion of taxpayer dollars — as much as $25 million per year among them — courtesy of staunchly anti-abortion lawmakers, who are firmly in control of the Legislature.

While abortion clinics say women deserve a choice, many crisis pregnancy centers believe that women do have a choice: between raising their child or giving him or her up for adoption.

Abortion bans are confusing doctors about what’s still legal. Reveal investigates the effects on pregnant women and the growing influence of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.

Florida’s new immigration law, set to take effect on July 1, has undocumented workers worried — and afraid. They fear losing their jobs. They fear being forced to leave the state. And they fear having no choice but to return to their home countries, leaving their lives in South Dade, where some have been for decades, behind.

As Florida lawmakers have ratcheted the ever tighter restrictions on abortion, including a just-passed six-week abortion ban aimed at emptying clinics, a Miami Herald investigation found clinic waiting rooms as crowded as ever and maybe more so.

Republican lawmakers in Florida are proposing a more than fivefold increase in taxpayer funding for anti-abortion centers like the Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics, to $25 million from $4.45 million in 2022.

Just like adults, Florida juvenile offenders can be slapped with fees for the cost of prosecution and supervision, as well as the cost of a public defender — and, at the discretion of the judge, restitution. Records show that in the vast majority of those cases — roughly 90% in 2019, according to a University of Miami study — those assessments go unpaid.

In Miami, Turkish immigrants worry, rally support for homeland

Florida residents without insurance were left to clean up after Hurricane Ian on their own. Photo by Clara-Sophia Daly.

3 Miami Dade College graduates head to prestigious MIT

A group of students at Ransom Everglades High School in Coconut Grove will see their science experiment launched on a Blue Origins rocket, as part of a program sponsored by NASA.

Miami-Dade Schools defends decision to pull Pulitzer play

The University of Miami and Miami Dade College expand medical school program for Blacks, Hispanics