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With a simple app on your cellphone, you can summon a car and driver almost everywhere in the United States. Before long, the car might even come by itself. But you still can’t use that cellphone, or any other single device, to pass through highway toll booths across the country, despite the October 2016 deadline Congress gave the states to make their electronic toll systems “interoperable.” Swiftly flow the years. The goal of “interoperability,” in plain English, means your... Read More

A U.S.-backed campaign to force President Nicolas Maduro from power met strong resistance Saturday from Venezuelan security forces who fired tear gas on protesters trying to deliver humanitarian aid from Colombia and Brazil, leaving two people dead and some 300 injured. Throughout the turbulent day, as police and protesters squared off on two bridges connecting Venezuela to Colombia, opposition leader Juan Guaido made repeated calls for the military to join him in the fight against... Read More

A massive effort to break President Nicolas Maduro‘s blockade of humanitarian aid descended into violence and chaos Saturday across the string of border flash points — showing both the growing defiance of Juan Guaidó and the U.S.-backed opposition but also Maduro’s willingness to fight back. In a day of fast-moving developments at various points, anti-Maduro crowds at a Colombian border town faced tear gas fired by Venezuelan units, cheered as dozens of Venezuelan security... Read More

A cargo jetliner originating from Miami crashed with three people aboard into a bay east of Houston early Saturday afternoon, officials said. “Knowing what I saw I don’t believe anyone could have survived,” Sheriff Brian Hawthorne of Chambers County told reporters, describing the recovery of some human remains from the water. “It looks like total devastation from the aircraft.” The plane, a twin-engine Boeing 767 cargo jetliner operated by Atlas Air and serving Amazon Prime,... Read More

An Amazon cargo plane originating from Miami crashed into a bay east of Houston early Saturday afternoon, apparently killing three people on board, local officials said. “Knowing what I saw I don’t believe anyone could have survived,” Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told reporters, describing floating debris. “It looks like total devastation from the aircraft.” The plane, a twin-engine Boeing 767 cargo jetliner operated by Atlas Air Inc., crashed into Trinity Bay near... Read More

A 25-year-old Tamarac man is dead and his 30-year-old female passenger was critically injured after a motorcycle accident on the Turnpike early Saturday, the Florida Highway Patrol said. FHP Lt. Alvaro Feola said Matias Rasuk died at the scene after losing control of his 2010 Kawasaki ZX100 bike near mile marker 94. His passenger, Jennifer Huntley of Dania, was taken to St, Mary’s Medical Center with severe injuries. Initial reports show that at about 12:38 a.m., Rasuk was driving south... Read More

After a tourist boat exploded beneath Stefanie Schaffer’s seat, mangling her legs, she lay in a hospital bed wondering whether she would ever walk again. But before she surrendered to despair, her doctors unknowingly inspired her. “Every day when the trauma team would do their rounds, I would hear them outside my door,” said Schaffer, 22, about her stay at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. “And they’d say, ‘The girl in this room is a miracle.’ And it just made... Read More

A year and a half before the Stoneman Douglas massacre, some of the shooter’s teachers were surveyed about his behavior. They wrote that he made threats. He was fascinated with guns. They were afraid of him. Nikolas Cruz told an administrator that shooting guns helped him relieve stress. And when the school district judged whether he might harm other students, he met all of the criteria for aggression and depression. Those observations, however, were never relayed to police or to mental... Read More

A night out at a pub in a KMart shopping plaza in the Florida Keys ended with three men in jail after accusations of a punch thrown over a woman, rocks shattering a windshield and a man trying to mow down two others with his car, deputies said Friday. William Cobaugh, 49, told the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office he pre-emptively punched Nicholas Michael Jones, 22, in the face at the Brass Monkey bar early Friday in Marathon because Jones was acting aggressively and “had that look in... Read More

Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, faces charges of soliciting another to commit prostitution after an investigation into illegal activities at a day spa in a northern Palm Beach County strip mall. The 77-year-old billionaire, who lives in Massachusetts and has a home in the Palm Beach area, will face two counts after being caught on video at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa, the Jupiter Police Department said Friday. Jupiter Police Chief Daniel Kerr said he was... Read More