The Nation : 485 Homeless as Rains Lash Puerto Rico

A tropical depression churned over the Dominican Republic after dumping heavy rains on Puerto Rico, where it killed three people and left 485 homeless. The depression, with maximum winds of 35 m.p.h., struck land in the Dominican Republic after passing 150 miles south of Puerto Rico, according to the National Weather Service in San Juan. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the weather system was headed west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. and expected to move along the northern coast of Cuba for the next 12 to 24 hours. The depression dropped 6.6 inches of rain on Puerto Rico in 24 hours. Two men and a boy were killed in Puerto Rico in two separate incidents when trees crushed their cars, police said.