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MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center in Miami says a tropical depression over the eastern Caribbean could reach tropical-storm strength before turning north in the next couple of days.

The tropical depression is the 15th of the season and would be named Omar if it strengthens as forecast.

Tropical-storm watches have been issued for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands and parts of the Dominican Republic.

As of Monday night, the depression had top sustained winds near 35 mph. Its center was about 340 miles southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and it was nearly stationary.

Far out in the Atlantic, the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Nana continued to weaken.

WEST PALM BEACH — Former U.S. Rep. Paul G. Rogers, a Democrat who earned the nickname "Mr. Health" for his work on environmental and health-care legislation during a 24-year career in Congress, died Monday. He was 87.

Rogers died at a rehabilitation hospital in Washington, his brother, Doyle Rogers, said. He had recently undergone an operation for lung cancer.

Elected in Florida to fill a seat left vacant by his father's death, Paul Rogers served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1955 to 1979. His nickname came from his position as chairman of the House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health and the Environment for eight years. He also left a legacy of health-care legislation, including his work on the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act.

JACKSON — Roy K. Moore, an FBI agent who oversaw investigations into some of the most notorious civil rights-era killings, including those depicted in the movie "Mississippi Burning," is dead at 94.

Moore's daughter, Sandra Gig-lio, said he died Sunday in a Madison, Miss., nursing home of complications from pneumonia and other ailments.

Moore, a former Marine and native of Oregon, had established a solid reputation in the FBI when Director J. Edgar Hoover sent him to Mississippi in 1964 after the disappearance of civil-rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.

Nearly two months later, their bodies were dug out of an earthen dam in Neshoba County. "Mississippi Burning," released in 1988 and starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, was based on the case.

Nineteen men were indicted in 1967 on federal charges of violating the civil rights of Schwer-ner, Chaney and Goodman. Seven were tried and convicted and served six years or less in prison.

HONOLULU — Two sisters-in-law were struck by large waves on the Kauai shore and were pulled out to sea, and a snorkeler also died over the weekend as high surf hit Hawaii.

The women were strolling along Queen's Bath in Princeville on Sunday when a large wave knocked one woman down and a second wave swept both women into the water, according to Clayton Arinaga, assistant Kauai police chief for patrol services.

The women were identified as Heather Westphal, 33, of Washington, D.C., and Tonya Cataldo, 38, of Parker, Colo.

Earlier Sunday, a body surfer at a beach in Kapaa found the body of a snorkeler in the water. Arinaga said the man was 74-year-old Hiroaki Kinjo of Saitama Ken, Japan.

Drowning appeared to have caused all three deaths, but autopsies were scheduled today.

CINCINNATI — U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt of Ohio suffered broken ribs and vertebrae when she was struck by a car while jogging last week, but the damage wasn't discovered until after she fainted from pain on an overseas trip, her spokesman said Monday.

The Republican congresswoman was heading to a weekend fact-finding visit to Afghanistan when severe pain caused her to pass out while the plane was landing at a U.S. Air Force Base in Germany. A hospital examination then found the breaks in two ribs and two vertebrae that hadn't been detected earlier, spokesman Bruce Pfaff said.

Schmidt, 56, subsequently flew back to Ohio and was resting Monday in her home just east of Cincinnati, Pfaff said.

The avid marathoner was struck by a car last week. Police still haven't found the driver.

CINCINNATI — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Ohio prisoner who argued he is too obese to be executed. Richard Cooey is scheduled to be put to death today.

The court denied his request for a stay without comment Monday.

Cooey is 5-foot-7 and weighs 267 pounds.

State officials said the prison staff examined Cooey's veins and found no problems that would interfere with the execution.

Cooey has one more appeal pending before the court.

It argues that Ohio's method for lethal injections could cause an agonizing death and violates the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

Cooey, 41, raped and killed two college students in 1986.