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June 10, 2020

• ‘Policing in Florida is tied to racism.’ Activists discuss Miami’s police brutality.
• ‘Like a bad dream.’ After sudden death of mentor, Heat’s Silva braces for return to court
• Alcohol sales surge during pandemic, lockdowns. Here’s what people are drinking
• Seminole Hard Rock casinos and guitar hotel are reopening after COVID-19 closures
• Legendary Cuban entertainment star Rosita Fornés dies in Miami
• Homestead-Miami Speedway will be test lab Sunday as NASCAR gradually welcomes back fans | Opinion
• Ransom Everglades teen making a difference with cleanups of Bird Key in Biscayne Bay
• As businesses reopen, workers can refuse to return to unsafe conditions | Opinion
• Disgruntled customer pulls gun on Miami body shop worker. Cops want to find him.
• Sports on TV: Wednesday, June 10, 2020
• Schedule, format, rules (no jersey-swapping) for MLS is Back Tournament in Orlando
• Miami Marlins open draft with pitching and select Minnesota’s Max Meyer at No. 3
• What a weekend with UFC and WWE NXT airing special live shows during these times
• FIU researchers think of a way to speed up a vaccine for COVID-19. Now there’s a $1M grant.
• Meeting flooded with demands for Miami-Dade to shift police dollars into housing, aid
• Esserman-Knight awards its first journalism prizes and investigative journalist fellowship
• The beaches are back, but so is Miami’s typical summer weather pattern, forecasters say
• ‘Say their names.’ Baby-name website creates tribute to black lives lost
• She jumped off a hotel balcony to get away from abusive boyfriend, Florida Keys police say
• Billionaire developer pays $62 million for downtown Fort Lauderdale development site
• The planned merger of two mall giants is off — or is it? Two Miami centers are affected
• Aventura real estate agent arrested as the suspect in a Miami Beach hit-and-run
• MLB commissioner Rob Manfred: ‘We’re going to play baseball in 2020. 100 percent.’
• American satisfaction with direction of US plunges, poll says. What’s biggest reason?
• Blue blood from horseshoe crabs can help in COVID-19 fight. Here’s how
• The safety ropes have failed when it gets too cold. That’s why they’ve been recalled
• These agencies helped many after Parkland shootings. Now they’ll get a cut of $9.8 million
• Where’s my money? 35 million still waiting on stimulus checks, feds say
• From Miami Beach to Key West, new app lets you rent your neighbor’s pool by the hour
• Another precautionary boil water notice got issued Wednesday afternoon
• West Matheson Park reopens but so does a long-running neighborhood conflict
• Miami songwriter behind ‘Despacito’ sings of quarantine-related themes
• Marco Rubio called them ‘extremists.’ They’re really Miami rappers. They want a retraction.
• Is Splash Mountain racist? Some Disney fans say it’s time to change ride’s theme
• Investors foreclose on Southland Mall in Cutler Bay for defaulting on payment
• Miami Dolphins executive is doing his part to increase diversity among NFL staffs
• Miami real estate agent gets fired for trying to make money off George Floyd riots
• This real estate broker helped organize downtown’s David Guetta concert
• Franchisees are back in the real estate game, thanks to the pandemic
• Lopez Obrador doesn’t even have bank account. How can he run Mexico’s economy? | Opinion
• How scientific community is using #ShutDownSTEM to support Black Lives Matter movement
• She was driving along Interstate 95 in Miami. Then she was shot at, troopers say
• A roofer’s 19th OSHA fine since 2014, on a Tamarac job, got reduced by almost $54,000
• Two bodies on the beach. A police chase onto I-95. Is a Pennsylvania man the connection?
• Coiffed Miami Lakes is forced to confront racism in the wake of George Floyd murder | Opinion
• What does Florida’s future look like after COVID-19? Watch our discussion
• UM Sports Hall of Fame starts GoFundMe page, pleads to fans: ‘Help keep our doors open’
• Florida Panthers reopen practice facility as part of ‘Phase 2’ in NHL restart plan
• Bahamian restaurant opens first U.S. location at Miami Beach food hall
• Biscayne Bay Kiwanis Club surprises Booker T. Washington senior with 4-year scholarship 
• Miami school board member wants anti-racism curriculum. All but one colleague agreed.
• Here’s how Miami-Dade Schools transformed a secret migrant camp into a makeshift summer school
• As Miami-Dade beaches open after coronavirus closure, people hurry to hit the water
• ‘White coats for black lives’ — doctors, nurses protest; teen leads march in Miami Beach
• Columbus, Ponce De Leon statues vandalized in Miami, protest turns chaotic
• How did Miami land Jacolby George? UM finally put together an exciting offensive staff.
• Suspected Walmart shoplifter shoots a mother, father then fires at FL deputy, cops say
• Watch an alligator take a casual Sunday stroll through a Florida Walmart parking lot