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May 8, 2020

• Want to get outside, Miami? Here are some of the places to get fresh air in quarantine
• Royal Caribbean crew go on hunger strike until company proves it is sending them home
• Miami restaurants may be reopening soon, but are buffets gone forever?
• This Mother’s Day, be grateful for the blessings in your life amid COVID-19 pandemic
• Stop cooking! Some of your favorite Miami restaurants reopened for takeout, delivery
• Floridians aren’t following virus safety measures, survey says. Thousands won’t stay home
• While revenue falls, Medicaid could cost Florida an extra $1B, health agency warns
• Number of new coronavirus cases in Florida lowest in a week as death toll rises to 1,669
• Do Starbucks workers have to wear masks? At a Miami hospital store, they weren’t
• Family mourns passing of Miami Dolphins legend Don Shula in private funeral service
• NFL TV tidbits, including coronavirus contingency. And Le Batard returns to television
• Secrecy about coronavirus data leads to one conclusion: We’re on our own in Florida | Opinion
• Democrats want Ron DeSantis to stop coronavirus reopening efforts across Florida
• Coronavirus got you and your family anxious? Try a mental ‘check-in,’ psychiatrist says
• The Florida Keys aren’t open to tourists yet. But you can make a hotel reservation now
• Did you call your spouse by your work wife’s name? Florida really misses coworkers
• Child vaccinations drop in COVID-19 pandemic, creating a new outbreak risk, study says
• At-home deaths are up in Miami-Dade, but ER visits are down. It could be COVID-19 fears.
• ‘I just hope Mom remembers me when I can hold her hand again’ | Opinion
• A stabbing rampage destroys a Florida Keys family, and now there’s sadness and a void
• Own your business? PPP funds are still available — if you know how to apply
• Mother’s Day weekend kicked off with a surprise virtual visit for Inter Miami player
• Miami-Dade reopening some businesses on May 18 after weeks of COVID-19 closures
• ‘It’s not like flipping a switch’: DeSantis says Palm Beach County will reopen Monday
• Florida’s lax oversight of nursing homes spills over from one deadly crisis to the next
• He says he has COVID and has never been to Haiti. But ICE still wants to deport him there.
• Florida oncology network that bilked cancer patients gets $67 million in COVID-19 aid
• With DeSantis calling the shots, Florida will never get a true picture of coronavirus’ damage | Opinion
• Watch Navy’s Blue Angels salute South Florida’s healthcare teams and first responders
• Nurse sent by the Cuban government to treat coronavirus patients dies in Dominica
• Big crowds, no masks led South Beach park to close. After national buzz, it will reopen
• Joe Biden hosted a virtual campaign rally in Tampa. It didn’t go great
• Senior dependents don’t get coronavirus relief checks. Can the next bill change that?
• Paying the bill for COVID-19 stimulus
• Can you trademark #coronavirus? It’s just one of many trying to cash in on pandemic
• Miami musician mentors band together with a little help from the superintendent
• ‘They are huge’: Watch iguanas take over a small park behind The Falls mall
• Miami-Dade commission rejects sick leave for contractors after Cuba comparisons
• Moishe Mana’s got milk. The real estate mogul just bought Miami’s MacArthur Dairy
• Recruiting heats up for Nova Southeastern University and Barry men’s basketball
• Baseball player converts to Barry switch-hitter, thanks to unusual training routine
• Innocence Project of Florida requests new trial for Miami man convicted of murder in 1973
• Oral herpes could cause Alzheimer’s disease, new study says. But how?
• Sports on TV: Friday, May 8, 2020
• Burger King manager stole from the safe to pay for car, rent and a new TV, police say
• In Florida, Gimenez leads as DeSantis lags and demands COVID-19 nursing-home data | Editorial
• Suicides, alcohol, drugs: Pandemic could result in 75,000 ‘deaths of despair,’ study says
• Nearly all social distancing arrests in Brooklyn were people of color, data show
• ‘I run for life. And I don’t ever want to have to run for my life’ | Opinion
• Illegal fishing in Keys halted in ‘no-take’ zone. Locals caught with 700 pounds, cops say
• Fight over Lake O levels rages on with proposed changes to water bill
• If ‘good’ white people don’t decry Arbery’s death, then, maybe, you’re not that good | Opinion
• Dead man found inside house, teen with multiple gunshot wounds across the street
• Two-thirds of Americans worry their states are reopening too soon, poll shows
• ‘Really surprised to see that’: Watch a bunch of cows roam the busy streets of Doral  
• Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia are repressive regimes. They don’t belong on U.N. Human Rights Council | Opinion
• New at-home coronavirus test gets FDA approval. This one only needs your saliva
• Florida prisons boss can’t release inmates amid COVID-19. But can he furlough them?
• How did Gronk end up in Tampa? Coach Bruce Arians says Brady was “adamant” about reunion
• Luxury condo sales continue. This Sunny Isles penthouse went for $21 million
• Charter boat crews will fish for the hungry in the Keys during the coronavirus crisis
• Still waiting for a coronavirus stimulus check? The direct deposit deadline is coming
• Barber shops and salons can reopen Monday — except in South Florida, DeSantis says