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December 17, 2021

• Luxury condos replacing low-income housing in Brickell. Related Group teams with Marriott
• 2 Florida men helped ring rip off federal loan program for $35 million, took cut of proceeds
• Ghislaine Maxwell, declaring prosecutors didn’t prove anything, says she won’t testify
• Good bloodlines give junior star Jagger Leach a chance to make his mark in tennis
• In another unpredictable season, COVID’s impact reemerges as Dolphins pursue playoffs
• Coronavirus weekly need-to-know: Holidays, booster side effects, long-COVID & more
• Your brain doesn’t like uncertainty — and that will help you cope with COVID | Opinion
• Paying law-and-order public servants low salaries comes at a high — and dangerous — cost | Opinion
• Biden’s commission too timid to say the Supreme Court should be expanded | Opinion
• COVID-19 decimated Caribbean economies. The U.S. should do more to help, leader says
• UM COVID cases surge after Thanksgiving break, finals pivot online, grad parties canceled
• New federal probe at Miami Seaquarium delays lease change; 3 more animal deaths reported
• Florida COVID update: Cases nearing September highs as 8,785 added, figures not seen in months
• Two large alligators tumble out of SUV after teen driver crashes, Florida cops say
• COVID infection when fully vaccinated gives you ‘super immunity,’ study suggests
• Let the portal caravan begin: Miami gets USC DL transfer who played prep ball in Broward
• Florida Panthers shut down through Christmas as team deals with COVID-19 outbreak
• UF was in a hurry to grant tenure to DeSantis’ new surgeon general, letter alleges
• Cardinal Gibbons, South Florida’s newest dynasty, wins third state title in four years
• Americans stocked up on alcohol early during COVID, study finds. What did they buy?
• ‘It’s a dynasty, baby’: Central completes threepeat for Dade County record 8th state title
• Magic, dealing with COVID-19 issues, signs four from G League to have enough to play Heat
• Seeing more police in South Florida schools? A TikTok threat has officers on high alert
• South Florida sports schedules are being altered by COVID-19. Where things stand
• Avoid J&J COVID vaccine if Pfizer or Moderna are available? Explaining CDC decision
• UM’s Cristobal makes another signing splash, flips elite TE Jaleel Skinner from Alabama
• The final verdict on Dolphins’ poor 2021 free agency foray. And injury, COVID updates
• Miley meets Miami: Singer leading party patrol duties for New Year’s Eve with SNL star
• ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ already smashing records. See the box office projections
• Miramar High School student arrested after bringing gun to school, police say
• It’s time for U.N. peacekeepers to return to Haiti — and to get it right this time | Editorial
• Deer dashes across road — then crashes through CBD storefront in Massachusetts video
• They’re 4! Anna Kournikova shares rare pictures of her adorable twins in Miami
• In Miami-Dade, signs Christmas may overlap with a new COVID wave as omicron spreads
• Man threatened to kill US senator and ‘take back Washington,’ feds say. He’s prison-bound
• Former Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Miami’s longest-serving commissioner, dies
• Florida Board of Education chair found not guilty in Keys land case
• Omicron will bring about 40K new COVID cases a day in Florida by February, UF model says
• Inter Miami trades goalkeeper Dylan Castanheira for Atlanta United midfielder Mo Adams
• Dolphins get two players back from COVID list. Where things stand and who’s available
• Shorthanded Florida Panthers, with seven players in COVID-19 protocols, fall to Kings
• Podcast: Grading Cristobal’s first Miami signing day. And first impressions of new AD
• Cardinal Gibbons’ defense holds the line against Cocoa to secure third state title
• Mold on lettuce, rodents and 2 Boston Markets: South Florida restaurants’ dirty dozen
• Looking to get a COVID test ahead of the holidays? Here’s where you can go
• Too much poop in Hollywood’s Harrison Street Beach to go swimming, health agency says
• Dem members of Congress, you have no credibility on Cuba when you ignore repression | Opinion
• Ordering Nochebuena or Christmas dinner from Publix, Sedano’s, etc.? Here’s your deadline
• The ‘¿Qué pasa USA?’ play is coming back to Miami. Here’s how to get tickets
• Sports on TV: Friday, Dec. 17, 2021
• Air Force releases few details on what prompted Homestead Air Reserve Base evacuation
• Take a moment from the Christmas rush to remember the baby born in a manger | Opinion
• Pedestrian grandmother is victim of a hit-and-run in Little Havana, Miami police say
• Broward jail deputy guilty of pepper spraying inmate. No probation — just anger management
• ‘My heart and soul’: Fat Joe gives shoutout to autistic son on his birthday in rare post
• Jackson Health is changing visitation rules as omicron variant spreads, hospital says
• Hall of Famer more nervous watching grandson’s tennis match than playing in the NBA Finals