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June 16, 2020

• Hallandale residents split over whether to disband or reinstate SWAT team. City listens
• Florida’s crash testing program offers snapshot of COVID-19’s deadly toll in long-term care
• Face masks protect less with each cough, study finds. Should you keep wearing it?
• Target and Nike offer Juneteenth as paid holiday, joining other national companies
• Saharan dust to reach Southeast soon. How it affects hurricanes, sinuses and sunsets
• Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa establishes scholarship endowment at his old high school
• Flushing toilets can launch coronavirus droplets, study says, but there’s an easy fix
• Police already struggle to find recruits. Public scrutiny makes it harder, poll shows
• A man who opened fire on a Key West street gets a new trial over what the jury was told
• Hialeah joins growing list of police departments to ban controversial neck restraint
• Can dogs smell the coronavirus? Company training new COVID-detection dogs
• Coronavirus death toll in US to reach 200,000 by fall, model says. What changed?
• Boy Scouts to honor Black Lives Matter movement with a new badge and other changes
• Inter Miami team submits upzoning plan for Miami Freedom Park — a special area plan
• Croquetas are canceled: ABC just axed a show about a Miami bakery and fans are fuming
• Love in the time of lockdown: Lil Wayne has a new girlfriend (apparently)
• Here’s what’s showing at Hard Rock stadium drive in (besides Dolphins Super Bowl wins)
• Haiti says it has hit a COVID-19 peak. However, PAHO cautions potential crisis awaits
• About 1 in 5 people worldwide at risk of a ‘severe’ COVID-19 infection, study finds
• Trump nominates key adviser for Latin America to head regional bank
• Here’s a first look at quarterback Tom Brady in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform
• Ex-Miami Dolphins safety Bacarri Rambo arrested and charged with raping college student
• Miami-Dade chosen for new Rockefeller initiative to boost minority business
• Miami prison officer charged after video shows him slapping inmate in the back of the head
• Miami police detain six people in connection with a shooting near The Grand condomium
• ‘Forget Confederate statues, just treat me like the human being that I am’ | Opinion
• Miami travel pricing tech firm Farelogix is acquired for undisclosed price
• Liberty Gardens in North Miami: where virtual meets reality
• This Miami hackathon wants to help fight racism
• Make Downtown Miami safer for the homeless, and the residents who feed them | Opinion
• Lissette Calderon bought another development site in Allapattah. It’s her third
• Sunny Isles Beach residential project moves forward with $97M construction loan
• Survey: 93% of black domestic workers in Miami-Dade have seen job cuts
• LeBron James signed card expected to get more than $1 million at auction. Take a look
• Florida finds no evidence of fraud by Miami hospital charging $150 for COVID-19 tests
• August elections — not November — may be the real prize for Miami street protesters
• Some lawmakers want to take away federal funds if schools don’t reopen by Sept. 8
• Doctors can prescribe a video game for kids with ADHD after landmark FDA decision
• Bam Adebayo on NBA restart: ‘We’re the Miami Heat. I don’t think anybody is going to sit out.’
• Adam Silver on NBA restart plan: ‘It may not be for everyone.’ Also, Heat bonus watch
• Lamar Jackson becomes second South Florida athlete to grace the cover of Madden
• These South Florida twin golfers have excelled on the golf course and in the classroom
• Marlins player rep Rojas calls out MLB commissioner’s ‘tactic ... to buy some more time’
• US missionary pleads guilty to sexually abusing girls at Kenyan orphanage, feds say
• Miami rabbi’s son, a promising high school soccer player, killed in bicycle accident
• ‘No criminality’ by Shake Shack workers after union said cops were poisoned, police say
• American Top Team’s Alexey Oleynik made history during UFC’s history making return
• Sports on TV: Tuesday, June 16, 2020
• He saw his dog floating in the lake. That wasn’t the worst of it.
• 82-year-old woman with dementia who left hospital and went missing is found, cops say
• Ever watch a camel give birth? Now you can with the latest video from Zoo Miami
• Ken Dorsey is on the ballot for CFB Hall of Fame, but Schnellenberger gets snubbed again
• Norwegian Cruise Line extends cruise suspensions as coronavirus pandemic continues
• Ron DeSantis on climbing coronavirus case numbers: ‘We’re not rolling back’
• NHL commish: Return plan keeps playoffs’ ‘integrity,’ but gives teams like Panthers shot
• The state changed a Miami-Dade school grade to an F. The school district pushed back.
• University of Miami students to return in the fall to Gables campus, despite coronavirus
• Miami-Dade civilian police oversight panel clears initial County Commission vote
• A fake U.S. Treasury website and fake testimonials — a new COVID-19 scam targets seniors
• An 84-foot fall killed a 20-year-old. His employer repeatedly fails at fall protection