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A Dominican Republic tribunal has ordered the Washington Nationals to pay $40,000 in damages to a scout who was fired after signing a prospect who lied about his age.
Authorities plan to relocate soldiers and their families to border communities that are home to thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants and increasingly fewer Dominicans.
A Dominican official says an alleged Colombian cocaine trafficker arrested in the Dominican Republic has been extradited to the United States.
Police raiding a Dominican Republic farm allegedly owned by a drug fugitive found a menagerie of exotic animals including ostriches and a wild boar.
A monument to baseball greets visitors to this city known as "the cradle of shortstops." Children in San Pedro de Macoris grow up playing ball behind tin shanties and on fields cut from sugar plantations.
Dominican authorities have intercepted packets presumed to be cocaine sewn in the lining of dictionaries.
Dominican authorities say two suspected drug dealers have died of smoke inhalation after trying to burn cocaine before police could find it.
The next crop of Dominican mayors, legislators and other elected officials will get to serve an extra two years in office under a new measure that aims to cut costs by holding all elections on a single day.
Dominican police are investigating the decapitation of a migrant from neighboring Haiti.
A Canadian father-and-son team that operates real estate businesses in the Dominican Republic defrauded hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada who invested some $170 million in luxury vacation properties, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
The last time we heard from Bert Blyleven, the circumstances weren't so pleasant — another miss in his frustrating, 12-year bid for a spot in the Hall of Fame.
More than 30 percent of the players in MLB today were born outside the United States, and that trend is expected to rise in the next 10 years.
Ever since Alex Rodriguez acknowledged taking "boli," a curious thing has happened in this country: It's become harder to find the drug.
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer says it has sold eight Super Tucano light attack planes to the Dominican Republic.
A passenger jet bound for Toronto made an unscheduled landing in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday after an agitated passenger tried to tamper with an emergency door, an airline official said.
Roughly 900 workers at the Dominican Republic's largest nickel mine will lose their jobs due to high production costs and a drop in the metal's value, international mining company Xstrata said Thursday.
Four Dominicans have been charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly helping to organize an illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico that ended in the deaths of 29 migrants.
Five migrants rescued after 15 days lost at sea ate their dead comrades to stay alive, a Dominican official said Sunday.
Grammy-winning merengue superstar Juan Luis Guerra is planning to teach at his Boston alma mater.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic issued an arrest warrant Friday for New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos after a crash involving his SUV that killed two women.
President Leonel Fernandez promised to boost agricultural production and warned of dire economic times as he was sworn in for a third term on Saturday.
About 20 people, including Italian tourists, were killed Friday when two buses collided head-on in the Dominican Republic, officials said.
Former Pan American Games wrestling medalist Wilson Santiago Rojas was shot to death when he tried to prevent his cousin from being robbed inside a Santo Domingo electronics store.
Sammy Sosa would like to represent the Dominican Republic in next year's World Baseball Classic.
The Roving Runner: One Actress, Many Characters - Well Blog - NYTimes.comIt can be difficult to keep a straight face, or even stay upright, when you are running next to Sarah Jones and she suddenly becomes Chinese or Dominican or Kenyan. Or a Jewish grandmother.
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Dominican Republic Holiday Sickness Strikes British Tourists AgainBritish tourists staying at the four star Bahia Principe Hotel in the Dominican Republic have once again been hit by an outbreak of sickness and diarrhoea. The holidaymakers may be suffering from the same bug that hit the same hotel two years ago..
Lord, stop me talking nonsense A Dominican monk has released a book of Catholic prayer aimed at teenagers, which includes a prayer asking God to stop you talking bollocks when drunk.
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