Sailors with the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy hit the mother lode of narcotics when they stopped a boat that they thought was being used for drug smuggling on Thursday, authorities say. About eight miles off Mole Saint-Nicolas,

Jury deliberations are underway in the federal trial of four men accused of conspiring to assassinate Haiti’s president, with parts of the alleged plot unfolding in South Florida. Closing arguments concluded today following nine weeks of testimony in Miami federal court.