South Florida

The Miami River's Murky History

Joseph Cooper, Bonnie Berman and Paul Leary — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Pursuing Reckless Cops Wins Sun-Sentinel Its First Pulitzer

Christine DiMattei — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

It was a humdinger of a story.

A Miami police officer in a marked squad car is pursued, pulled over and handcuffed by a Florida state trooper after speeding down the turnpike like race car driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

A dash-cam video of that pre-dawn October chase in 2011 went viral and sparked a three-month investigation by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper into how local police officers routinely endangered the general public through reckless driving.

WLRN Live Chat Tuesday at 11 AM: Tell Us Why Miami Is 'Flawed But Fabulous'

Nathaniel Sandler — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:37:58 +0000

Well everybody, I have a new assignment. I'm WLRN's Flawed-But-Fabulous beat reporter.

What These Eyes Have Seen: Reporter Reflects On Four Decades at Miami Herald

Phil Latzman — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:26:39 +0000

After nearly 43 years, John Dorschner has left The Miami Herald, and he will be sorely missed around here.

How The Cuban Missile Crisis Shaped Miami

Rich Halten — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:06:48 +0000

Where were you on October 22, 1962?

If you aren’t old enough to remember, ask someone over 50. That day, when President Kennedy revealed in a national TV broadcast that there were missiles in Cuba, was life altering for many, especially in South Florida.

It was a day that inspired Miami native Charles Carter, who was 16, to skip school and go to the Army Recruiting Office. With his parents' consent, he successfully enlisted in the military and was assigned to one of the four, hastily built missile sites in the Everglades - a mere 90 miles from a potential nuclear threat.

Producer Rich Halten spoke to Carter and several other people who lived through that time, tapping their memories about the Cuban Missile Crisis, as this week marks the 50-year anniversary.

Archival audio is from the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives.

We were also fortunate to gather tales and memories from members of the Public Insight Network to enhance the already incredible story Halten produced. You can listen to the radio story above, and you can read what contributors remembered and thought of those two horrifying and sleepless weeks below.

Two Sleepless Weeks