THE DISAPPEARANCE
Published Feb. 12, 1989
Tiffany Sessions, a 20-year-old finance major at the University of Florida, was indulging in one of her favorite pastimes — power walking — when she disappeared on a dark, wooded road near her Gainesville apartment.
She is an avid athlete whose family’s wealth has allowed her to indulge passions for skiing and horseback riding.
Two years ago, she took up power walking as an... [...]
Edgardo Defortuna has been flying high for years, hiring star architects and erecting a string of ultra-luxury condo and hotel towers on his way to becoming one of Miami’s most prominent developers. He recently announced his first foray outside South Florida, unveiling a design for a trio of luxury towers in Paraguay.
But three separate lawsuits against Defortuna and his Fortune International Group suggests there may be a dark side to the... [...]
The First Presbyterian Church of Miami, the oldest organized congregation in the city, has been hit with a $7.1 million tax bill by the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser, which claims the church has violated its religious exemption status by leasing a portion of church grounds to a for-profit school and food trucks.
The church, located at 609 Brickell Ave., has run a K-8 religious school on the property since 2008. The bill comprises a tax lien... [...]
Jose Smith, the former city attorney from Miami Beach — and then North Miami Beach — is contract shopping in Miami-Dade municipalities on behalf of Bryant Miller Olive, where he was recently hired to lead its new full-service municipal government practice.
The longtime government operator has leveraged his many Miami-area contacts in recent months to informally angle for new contracts and city attorney positions in at least North Bay... [...]
Florida law enforcement officers can invoke the state's "stand your ground" self-defense law to protect them from criminal prosecution in some instances of deadly force, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.
The court issued its 7-0 decision in the case of Peter Peraza, a Broward County sheriff's deputy charged with manslaughter in the 2013 fatal shooting of a man carrying what turned out to be an air rifle.
Peraza's lawyers... [...]
