Category: Broward News

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

Two groups — one in favor of an American military intervention to stop the Venezuelan crisis and one against it — gathered Saturday afternoon in front of the U.S. Southern … Click to Continue » ... 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

A group of activists in favor and against Nicolás Maduro gathered in Doral on Saturday, February 23, 2019. … Click to Continue » ... 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

Renato Elia was on a business trip in Brazil when his wife called from their home in Venezuela to tell him their daughter and two sons had escaped a kidnapping attempt in a country that was growing increasingly volatile. Ten years later, they are American citizens living in Miami-Dade County. “We came for a week to wait for some security at home but then my wife said let’s stay another week, and then a month, and then a year,” Elia, 53, said. “The situation started deteriorating in... Read More

Several of the top Venezuelan generals who the Trump administration says can allow aid into Venezuela have family living in the United States that could be expelled from the country, … Click to Continue » ... Read More

South Florida has lost one of its staunchest — and most visible — advocates for the homeless. Few captured international attention the way this nonagenarian who clashed with Fort Lauderdale … Click to Continue » ... Read More