By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and DAVID OVALLE The pilots of the Amazon cargo jet that overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday were not fully in control of the aircraft as it touched down and appeared to have temporarily considered aborting the landing, according to a timeline of the final seconds before the deadly crash that federal investigators unveiled late Tuesday. The sequence of events detailed by National Transportation Safety Board investigators likely cost t

By VIMAL PATEL The American Bar Association, the lawyers group that sets standards for the legal profession, eliminated earlier this week a diversity requirement for law schools after facing pressure from the Trump administration. The bar association said that the diversity requirement could jeopardize its role as an accreditor that oversees nearly 200 juris doctorate programs. The association’s mandate had said that law schools should demonstrate by “concrete action” a commi

A tree branch hangs on a power line in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. Hurricane Lowell flooded roads and knocked out power for thousands in Kauai. About 90 percent of the island was out of power as emergency crews cleared downed trees and power lines. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, BILLY WITZ and ERIN SCHAFF As Tuesday dawned on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, roaring winds quieted into a more familiar breeze, no longer drowning o

By THE STAR STAFF LUMA Energy, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and private developer Energiza LLC submitted a joint verified status report to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) this week confirming that physical construction of Energiza’s proposed 528‑megawatt (MW) generation facility has not yet begun and remains at zero percent completion. Tuesday’s filing was made within a five‑day extension granted to PREPA after the agency requested additional time to

A Treasury Department employee who pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery scheme admitted to using his privileged access to agency systems to submit false information in exchange for bribes, thereby erasing tax debts, evading taxes and misappropriating funds. By THE STAR STAFF A Treasury Department employee pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery scheme in which he received payments to eliminate taxes owed by individuals and businesses -- a case that caused an est

By THE STAR STAFF The State Elections Commission (SEC) held a drawing on Wednesday to determine ballot positions for the New Progressive Party (NPP) special election scheduled for Sept. 27 to select the new mayor of Cataño. “The State Elections Commission is committed to guaranteeing voters an orderly, secure, and reliable process, just as we have done in the two previous special elections held during this election cycle,” SEC Commissioner Jorge Rivera Rueda said in a written

Former Sen. Migdalia González Arroyo Calls for transfer to municipality By THE STAR STAFF Former Mayagüez district senator Migdalia González Arroyo urged the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) on Wednesday to publicly clarify the status of the former Mayagüez Zoo, which has remained closed and deteriorating for years. González Arroyo, who serves as vice president of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), said the agency has shown “no interest” in advancing

Jennifer Marie Torres Castro was slain on June 24. (Facebook via Jennifer Marie Torres Castro) By THE STAR STAFF Justice Secretary Lourdes Gómez Torres announced on Wednesday that a 67-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly causing the death of 36-year-old nurse Jennifer Marie Torres Castro -- who died on June 24 in Caguas -- through mechanical asphyxiation and severe bodily trauma. “From the very beginning, the Caguas Prosecutor’s Office and the

Dr. Pablo Menéndez Lázaro advised the island government during the 2015 drought. (imed.isid.org) By THE STAR STAFF A former member of Puerto Rico’s Drought Committee is warning that cloud‑seeding remains an unreliable and largely unproven tool for the island, even as the government has restarted operations over the Carraízo and La Plata reservoir basins to confront an intensifying water crisis. Dr. Pablo Menéndez Lázaro, who advised the government during the 2015 drought, sai