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April 17, 2020

• Did you lose a loved one to coronavirus? Help us honor their memory through your words
• A penthouse in Brickell Flatiron sold for $11.2M, despite the pandemic
• Should you be hooking up during coronavirus pandemic? Tinder, Bumble downloads surge.
• COVID-19: Signs of the time of coronavirus
• Who we’ve lost in South Florida: a cop, a nurse, a banker, a grandma and so many more
• Florida sees most new coronavirus cases reported after three-day drop in numbers
• Coach Joel Quenneville talks possible return and the potential of the Florida fan base
• The ringtone that plays 24-7 for Miami Hurricane and the ‘weird’ NFL Draft each faces
• The check belonged to a Villages resident. The handwriting belonged to a caretaker
• Amid pandemic, FDA seizes cheaper mail-order drugs from Canada, leaves patients stuck
• Amid rebukes over secrecy, Florida prison system begins to reveal ravages of coronavirus
• Free doughnuts, pizzas and even Crocs. Many showering first responders with gratitude.
• ICE detainee with COVID-19 in Miami detention center will be released — with nowhere to go
• Watch a manta ray swim in the water right off Hallandale Beach: ‘So cool’ 
• NBA offering Miami Heat face masks as part of new initiative benefiting food banks
• South Florida natives Bea Mompremier, “Kiki” Herbert Harrigan selected in WNBA Draft
• Can debt collectors seize your stimulus check? It depends on your state
• 11 dogs trapped in feces-filled cages, given no water or food. Deputies came to rescue
• Maker of essential N95 masks says it’s targeting Florida’s fraudsters and profiteers
• Flanagan grad Mikiah Herbert Harrigan heads to Lynx in first round of WNBA draft
• Watch as Maxi, Zoo Miami’s spotted hyena, undergoes abdominal surgery 
• Casino bartender, jailed during coronavirus crisis, gets felony charge over $36 in drinks
• HCA hospitals restrict use of N95 masks for healthcare workers
• Wildfire is burning in Big Cypress after extreme dry weather. No help in forecast
• NBA’s Adam Silver offers update on where league stands during coronavirus shutdown
• Perez Art Museum has cut staff amid the COVID-19 crisis. It hopes to reopen Sept. 1
• Schools in the Archdiocese of Miami will stay online and not reopen this school year
• No car needed: Walk-up coronavirus test sites to open in Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach
• Cruise industry has enough cash for 10 cruise-less months. But will passengers come back?
• Miami Beach’s Flamingo Park is closed, but this 6-foot python flouted the law
• From one isolation to the next: Astronauts return to an Earth battling coronavirus
• Inside the Zoom workouts keeping Miami Heat players in shape during the NBA shutdown
• Remembering a beloved priest and a dear childhood friend who died from COVID-19
• Keep your distance: Cameras may soon watch you on the job to keep coworkers apart
• Transit union is suing Miami-Dade for more masks and hand sanitizer for bus drivers
• Miami reality star in coronavirus lockdown: I can’t wait to go back out to the bars
• Can you catch coronavirus from a dead body? It’s a possibility, researchers say
• There can’t be a gathering to remember the Holocaust, but films and programs are streaming
• Florida Keys city is about to ease a coronavirus restriction at marina boat ramp
• American flag latest display on Matterhorn in solidarity during coronavirus pandemic
• Electrician steals 1,600 N95 masks slated to be donated to New Jersey hospital, AG says
• Eastern Orthodox Christians to celebrate their Easter services virtually on Sunday
• CEOs predict big changes when pandemic subsides
• Is your high school student struggling with class? FIU med students tutor for free.
• Neighbor hires detective to spy on Jewish prayer groups after coronavirus closes temples
• There is still time to get critical financial documents in place
• First, a hurricane, Then, an algae bloom. Now, Keys fishermen try to weather a pandemic
• The medicine didn’t dissolve as it should. That can be a serious problem
• Don’t open Miami-Dade parks until coronavirus experts say it’s OK | Editorial
• Another ulcer and heartburn drug is recalled for possibly too much of a carcinogen
• Owners of retail properties, as well as tenants, will feel pandemic’s bite: Opinion
• In the week ahead, Netflix shareholders will learn if their optimism in the company is well-placed
• China just raised its coronavirus death toll by 50 percent in Wuhan
• Miami police chief says he’s tested positive for COVID-19. ‘My symptoms are mild.’
• Florida’s gig workers may finally be able to apply for unemployment — in a week
• Coronavirus cases climbing at state VA nursing home in Pembroke Pines, with two vets dying
• Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club temporarily furloughs 153 workers
• Baptist Health developed its own coronavirus lab test. The feds just approved it.
• Miami-Dade’s jobless rate doubled in March. And that’s shy of the true picture
• Refugees of Mariel overcame bias and made Miami a richer place | Opinion
• Six quarterbacks were drafted before Tom Brady in 2000. He wants you to remember them
• From Mariel to 1980 Miami: chaos, reunions, and a city Cubanized, forever changed | Opinion
• Worried about coronavirus complications? Exercise could help protect you, study finds
• Miami prosecutors stop firm’s sale of coronavirus ‘cure,’ calling it a fraud scheme
• Mickey and pals to the rescue: Disney’s Bedtime Hotline returns to help kids sleep
• Being deemed ‘essential’ saved some jobs but not all jobs for publicly-traded WWE
• Miami-Dade schools wants to feed more students. Teachers union makes website to help.
• Breathing exercises help other lung conditions, but what about coronavirus?
• Miami-Dade prepping park rules for COVID-19. Basketball games risky, singles tennis OK.
• It’s hard to say, but Trump is worse than sexual-assault allegations against Biden | Opinion
• Factories rush to make more masks amid coronavirus. Here’s why they’re so hard to make
• This is why stranded U.S. citizens have to pay so much for repatriation flights
• Latin America to face post-COVID economic crisis, but it won’t last too long | Opinion
• Dolphins lost out on Burrow, but Miami’s five wins had tangible benefit in this area
• What will Dolphins do in the draft? History, logistics provide clues of Grier’s plan
• Sex trafficking survivor released in Ohio after Kim Kardashian spotlights murder case
• A look at one position where the Miami Dolphins are solid but could use more in NFL Draft
• Miami Congresswoman Donna Shalala named to $2 trillion stimulus oversight commission
• Sports on TV: Friday, April 17, 2020
• Pitbull is now the owner of the sound ‘EEEEEEEYOOOOOO.’ Say it and you may owe him money
• Murder victim’s family wants rapper YNW Melly in jail despite contracting coronavirus
• Parts of Florida reopening beaches despite virus. Some say this is a ‘crazy, bad idea’