FairWarning: As long as there have been billboards, trees have been getting in the way. And billboard companies have been removing them — sometimes legally, sometimes not.

Howard Goodman: In a three-month investigation, the Sun Sentinel documented nearly 800 police officers from a dozen agencies driving at 90 mph to 130 mph on the region’s toll roads. Many times, they weren’t on duty — just commuting to and from work.

FairWarning: Billboard companies are moving aggressively to plant digital signs along U.S. highways and city streets. But debate persists on whether the eye-grabbing displays, which typically change messages every six to eight seconds, pose a risk to traffic safety.

ProPublica: One type of airport body scanner deployed by the TSA has raised health concerns, but a safer type has registered such high false-alarm rates that Germany and France have nixed it.

Ralph De La Cruz: South Florida officials want TSA to prove the safety of “backscatter” scanners — or pull them from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Ralph De La Cruz: After taking on FDOT and the turnpike system, Joel Chandler has turned his attention and his records requests to private prisons in Florida.

Ralph De La Cruz: A $100 bill at a Florida Turnpike toll booth has one man facing off in federal court against FDOT and the company that manages the turnpike.

Ralph De La Cruz: Gov. Rick Scott’s lawyer, Charles Trippe Jr., provided the Florida Supreme Court with bad information in the high-speed rail case, possibly affecting the court’s ruling.

ProPublica: The five-foot tear in the roof of a Southwest 737 last week has not only brought renewed attention to the problem of aging planes, but also to problems in oversight of the airline industry.