Tropical Storm Humberto, which formed Wednesday near the Caribbean islands, was located 465 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph on Thursday morning, forecasters said. It was traveling northwest at 8 mph. Humberto was expected to strengthen significantly to become a hurricane in a day or so over the central Atlantic and a major hurricane over the weekend.

A cluster of storms located west of Humberto dropped heavy rain Thursday on the Dominican Republic. On Wednesday, the disturbance caused flooding in parts of Puerto Rico, sweeping away one car and killing its driver as he attempted to cross a bridge, authorities said. The man’s body was found Thursday in the southwestern town of Yauco. The disturbance is expected to soon become a tr

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