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A 10-year-old boy on vacation with his family in the Florida Keys was attacked by a shark on Saturday while snorkeling at Looe Key, state wildlife police confirmed Monday. Jameson Reeder Jr. was airlifted by helicopter to a Miami-Dade hospital, where doctors amputated his leg just below the knee “to save his life as it was not operable from the damage the shark had caused,” his uncle Joshua Reeder posted on Facebook. “They said the shark made the decision for him,” Reeder posted on his Facebook page on Sunday. “But his life was spared. Thank you, Yeshua/Jesus!!” The family believes an eight-fo......

MIAMI — Miami-Dade commissioners on Wednesday delayed a hearing on legislation requiring quicker reinspections of older buildings, the centerpiece of the county’s reform plan following the collapse of the condo building in Surfside last year. Commissioner René Garcia, sponsor of the proposal, sent a memo saying he couldn’t attend the Policy committee meeting due to non-COVID illness, prompting commissioners to delay the hearing and preliminary vote until the panel’s next meeting, scheduled for May 11. Garica’s legislation would require 30-year recertifications of buildings countywide, a decade......

MIAMI — When the pool deck at Champlain Towers South collapsed early on the morning of June 24, the building’s fire alarm system quickly sent out a distress signal to its alarm company. It was 1:15 a.m. — seven minutes before half of the 12-story tower came crashing down and killed 98 people. But in that crucial seven-minute span between the pool deck collapsing and the tower failing, no klaxons, sirens or warnings seem to have gone off in the building’s condo units, hallways or lobby, according to a review of audio and video footage and interviews with more than a dozen residents and workers ......

MIAMI — A former federal agent and three others were indicted this week on charges of dealing painkillers in Miami-Dade County, including an allegation that the agent tipped off the ring under investigation. Alberico Ahias Crespo, an ex-agent with the Department of Health and Human Services who had worked on a federal strike force over the past decade, was charged with conspiring to distribute Oxycodone, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Crespo’s defense attorneys, Marc Seitles and Jose Quinon, declined to comment Friday. Crespo, 46, was charged along with three alleged members of ......

MIAMI — Miami Congresswoman-elect María Elvira Salazar will be unable to attend a Sunday ceremony in Washington to swear in members of the new Congress after learning she has COVID-19 during an emergency trip to the hospital, her office announced Thursday morning. Salazar, a Republican who last month defeated Democratic U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala in perhaps the most surprising congressional upset in the country, learned she had contracted the coronavirus overnight after she was admitted to Doctors Hospital with a heart arrhythmia, according to a press release issued Thursday. Salazar was treated ......

MIAMI — At Mount Sinai Medical Center, the phones have been ringing almost without stopping since the Miami Beach hospital announced Wednesday that it would follow a new directive from the Florida governor: Vaccinate senior citizens against COVID-19. Mount Sinai has been scheduling about 800 appointments a day — except for Christmas Day — starting with people over the age of 75. The appointments run through the next several weeks, with the hospital inoculating about 260 people per day on its campus overlooking Biscayne Bay. The growing demand comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced last week d......