{"id":241597,"date":"2026-04-22T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:59:06","slug":"miami-top-stories-medical-school-covid-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241597\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami top stories: Medical school, COVID, murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A rendering of Larkin University\u2019s future Jacqueline Nicole Michel College Of Osteopathic in South Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Larkin University<\/p>\n

A new medical school in South Miami-Dade and a decade-old double murder heading to trial are among the top stories from the Miami Herald on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

\u2022 New medical school planned for South Miami-Dade: Larkin University plans to open<\/a> the Jacqueline Nicole Michel College of Osteopathic Medicine on a 48-acre campus in the Naranja area, with a target opening of fall 2028. The school aims to address Florida\u2019s projected shortage of nearly 18,000 physicians by 2035 by training doctors to stay and practice locally.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Suspects in Miami Gardens execution-style murders reject plea deals: Two men accused of the 2013 torture and killing of church minister Annette Anderson, 70, and her grandson Tyrone Walker Jr., 20, will head to trial May 6<\/a> after Reginald Louis Jackson rejected a 40-year plea deal. Prosecutors say they will seek seven life sentences if the pair is convicted.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2018Cicada\u2019 COVID variant detected in Florida: The BA.3.2 variant, which has about 70 mutations compared to strains used in 2025-26 vaccines, has been found in 25 states<\/a> as of March 19, including two cases in Florida. Health experts say the variant may be more contagious but doesn\u2019t appear to cause more severe disease, and vaccination is still recommended.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rendering of Larkin University\u2019s future Jacqueline Nicole Michel College Of Osteopathic in South Miami-Dade. Courtesy of Larkin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-241597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}