Every day hundreds of cyclists pedal over the Rickenbacker Causeway connecting Miami to Key Biscayne, joined by more runners and pedestrians. Often it feels like Russian roulette, and sometimes athletes do get killed or injured. Miami-Dade County is finally proposing a $4.5 million plan to calm speeding automobiles along the way. The plan sets [...]

  A boater was killed by lightning on Sept. 5 in Biscayne National Park. According to a Miami Herald report, “U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer Nick Ameen said the man was struck while standing on a 14-foot boat with an aluminum hull.” A spokesperson for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said the lightning struck the 37-year-old boater around 1 [...]