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Latin superstar Ricky Martin said Thursday he is teaming up with a German broadcaster to support his foundation and build a youth center for children in his native Puerto Rico.
Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case.
Authorities in Puerto Rico say a school bus has fallen off an overpass, killing an 8-year-old girl near the capital of the U.S. Caribbean territory.
Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals.
A U.S. agency has overturned its 2003 research that said no health hazards were caused by decades of military exercises on Vieques, a bombing range-turned-tourist destination off Puerto Rico's east coast.
The Associated Press on Wednesday announced changes in its Latin America and Caribbean operations, closing a service limited to Puerto Rican news within Puerto Rico while adding editors and reporters elsewhere for the expanding Spanish market in the Americas.
A New York lawyer was robbed inside his room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Puerto Rico by assailants who tied him up before dawn Monday and stole $800 in cash, police said.
The FBI said Friday there is no evidence of sabotage in last week's explosion at a Puerto Rico fuel depot, which burned for more than two days and forced the evacuation of hundreds of people.
Puerto Rico lawmakers have voted to adopt one of the world's lowest legal limits for drunk driving.
Happy cows apparently do not come from this U.S. Caribbean territory.
The owner of a neighborhood bar and grocery where seven people were shot to death was arrested and charged with drug trafficking Tuesday, authorities said.
Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of a lagoon in Puerto Rico's capital.
Federal investigators entered a smoldering fuel depot for the first time Sunday to investigate what may have caused an explosion that forced hundreds to evacuate and spewed thick, toxic smoke across the region.
A Cuban volleyball player who vanished from his team's hotel in Puerto Rico appeared at a U.S. immigration office and requested political asylum on Tuesday.
Gunmen opened fire on a crowd celebrating the reopening of a newly renovated neighborhood bar and grocery, killing at least seven and injuring 20, police said Sunday.
Puerto Rican officials said Saturday they have canceled a concert featuring Grammy-winning band Calle 13 after the group's lead singer insulted the governor and other Latin American politicians during an MTV awards show.
Thousands of demonstrators swarmed Puerto Rico's financial hub Thursday, blocking highways and setting fires in the streets of the capital to protest massive layoffs of government workers.
Labor unions are calling for an island-wide strike and a march near the capital on Thursday to protest government layoffs in Puerto Rico, where more than 20,000 public employees have been dismissed as the island struggles to pull out of a three-year recession.
A needle exchange program in Puerto Rico is testing a vending machine that provides drug users with clean syringes after-hours to fight the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.
The headaches began just after Hermogenes Marrero arrived on Vieques, the small Puerto Rican island where the young U.S. Marine guarded stores of Cold War-era chemical weapons.
A Dominican smuggler has been sentenced to three years in prison for a sea voyage carrying illegal immigrants to Puerto Rico that took the lives of three people.
Thousands of laid-off government employees in Puerto Rico will be doing the conga for free, thanks to Gloria Estefan.
Some 500 law officers swarmed into a public housing project and other sites Friday to dismantle a trafficking ring allegedly run by the island's top drug suspect, a man described as an aspiring Robin Hood and a patron to reggaeton stars.
Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer "extreme animal abuse."
A Florida Marlins shortstop prospect wounded in a drive-by shooting on this U.S. island was the innocent victim of gangsters battling for control of drug distribution in nearby public housing projects, police said Thursday.
Suspect charged with murder in slaying of gay teen in Puerto RicoThe suspect in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and four other counts, the prosecutor in the case told CNN.
Life returning to normal for Ben OwnbyA year after their son and another kidnapped boy were rescued from a pedophile, Don and Doris Ownby are working hard to give him as normal a childhood as they can, given what he went through and the intense media coverage of the case.
Pierluisi lauds House healthcare bill"Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi hailed the inclusion of Puerto Rico in sweeping legislation rolled out by U.S. House Democrats Thursday to extend healthcare coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance.
Fire rages at Puerto Rico fuel depot (UPDATED)(CNN) -- A massive fire raged Friday at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico, sending a thick black cloud of smoke over large parts of metro San Juan and forcing firefighters to scramble to keep the blaze from spreading.
Man held in 1968 hijacking to appear in courtMore than four decades after he hijacked a jetliner from New York to Cuba, Luis Armando Pena Soltren was arrested at the same airport upon his return from exile, authorities said.
Racism & Cultural Studies: A Commentary on US Racism/ImperialismREVIEW OF Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference by E. San Juan, Jr. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002) By Dr. Jeffrey Cabusao Dept of Cultural Studies, Bryant University, Rhode Island
Real-life 'Blue Guy' shrugs off his skin colorPaul Karason gives new meaning to the phrase "feeling blue." The auburn-bearded 57-year-old Californian goes through life being stared at because his skin is the color of a ripe Concord grape. He explained why on TODAY.
A year after ordeal ended, kidnapped boy doing wellIt was a bittersweet Christmas for Craig and Pam Akers and their 16-year-old son, Shawn Hornbeck. Sweet because Shawn was back home after having been kidnapped and held for four years; bitter because of the thoughts it evoked of all the holidays the family had missed.
Bum note as soprano falls into orchestraPuerto Rican opera singer Ana Maria Martinez has been taken to hospital after falling into the orchestra pit at Glyndebourne, a spokeswoman for the British festival said.
Hurricane Bill weakens to Category 3 stormHurricane Bill weakened slightly to a Category 3 storm on Wednesday as it roared across the Atlantic Ocean.
For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor's Success Stirs PrideIn the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York — and probably, he thinks, the entire United States.
Captain Morgan Would Like To Thank You For The TARP MoneyBack when the Troubled Asset Relief Program was being shoved through Congress, some legislators tacked on hidden tax breaks for firms in dozens of industries.
Legal group to send Sotomayor's files to SenateA Puerto Rican civil rights leader said he was preparing to send a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's past to the Senate panel considering her nomination.
Man stole 88 panties from Neighbor A Puerto Rican was accused of stealing 88 panties from his 29 year old neighbor. The man was put to prison and his bond is $20,000
Killer of pregnant tourist gets 105 yearsA judge in Puerto Rico has sentenced a man to 105 years in prison for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a pregnant tourist from Georgia.
Man Admits Killing Pregnant Ga. Woman- A Puerto Rican man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting and killing a pregnant Georgia woman faces a maximum punishment of life in prison at a sentencing hearing.
Plane's hijacking alarm flub forces jet escortAuthorities say a cockpit hijacking alarm was mistakenly tripped on an American Airlines flight carrying more than 150 people, forcing fighter jets to escort the plane onto the runway in Miami.
Gunmen kill tot, father, teen in Puerto RicoThree men have been arrested in Puerto Rico after a 2-year-old girl, her dad and a 16-year-old boy were killed in a drive-by shooting.
In an old spanish-heritage city I found a lot of young girls and women wishing to take a look, although distant, to famous actor Johnny Depp. They wanted, at least, to see him in the horizon, so they could tell tales about him at work or to their closest friends at home.
Real-life 'Blue Guy' shrugs off his skin colorPaul Karason gives new meaning to the phrase "feeling blue." The auburn-bearded 57-year-old Californian goes through life being stared at because his skin is the color of a ripe Concord grape. He explained why on TODAY.
Cuba in a Time Warp - The Atlantic"The greatest achievements of Communism are health care, sports, and education. The greatest failures of Communism are breakfast, lunch, and dinner." (via Cuba in a Time Warp - The Atlantic Food Channel).
Jury: Ex-butcher killed, dismembered bossA former butcher has been convicted of murdering and dismembering his boss, then bagging the body parts and scattering them on street corners for collection.
Willie Aames wards off demons, armed robberA gun-toting desperado who held up the former child star last week could not have known he had selected as his target a man who hit rock bottom, and bounced back.
Sighting Report of UFOs Emerging from Ocean-UFO Casebook FilesSimilar stories are common in the island. I know!
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