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Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.
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.
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.
Police say a robber has made off with nearly $500,000 worth of luxury watches from a jewelry store at the Caribbean's largest shopping mall.
A judge has set bail at $2.6 million for a Puerto Rican man accused of fatally shooting a police officer and wounding a second before stealing their squad car earlier this month.
A jury in U.S. federal court has convicted four Puerto Rican police officers in the beating death of a man in their custody.
The Caribbean is reporting an unexpected jump in tourism as vacationers once bound for Mexico's sunny shores turn to new destinations amid worries about swine flu.
A soldier who had told his family he did not want to return to Iraq apparently killed himself in a Puerto Rican motel days before he was to join his unit and head back to the war zone, police in the U.S. territory said Monday.
Puerto Rican actor Miguelangel Suarez, whose career included minor roles in last year's epic "Che" and Woody Allen's "Bananas," died on Wednesday. He was 69.
Ramon Hernandez and his Venezuela teammates are headed to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic.
Former Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila entered a federal court to the cheers of supporters and pleaded not guilty to campaign finance charges that could send him to prison for 20 years.
Rough weather halted the search Monday for survivors of a small plane that crashed into the Atlantic after authorities recovered remains of one of six people on board.
Several co-defendants in a federal corruption trial against former Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila have agreed to testify against him.
The U.S. Coast Guard says it will no longer respond to distress calls sent by analog signal starting Feb. 1.
A former Puerto Rican lawmaker has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges that could send him to prison for more than a decade.
An initial examination of the wreckage of a small plane that plowed into a Puerto Rican rainforest this week turned up no evidence of engine malfunction, a U.S. investigator said Friday.
Roselyn Sanchez has gotten married at a historic San Juan fort in front of 250 guests that included Eva Longoria Parker.
A 4-year-old boy accidentally killed himself with his police-officer mother's gun as she dropped her children off at school, police said Thursday. The gun apparently fell between the two front seats of the car as the mother leaned over to comb her daughter's hair.
A Puerto Rican judge on Wednesday found a contractor and two of his workers not guilty of animal cruelty in a highly publicized massacre of dogs and cats seized from a housing project and hurled off a bridge last year.
A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
Three men accused in the killing of pets seized from a public housing project waived their right to a jury as their trial began Monday, saying heavy publicity would make it impossible to find impartial jurors.
An FBI agent may have accidentally killed a Puerto Rican policeman in a late-night shootout with alleged kidnappers, the island's top police official said Friday.
Authorities say a former official with a Cuban-American group that was once the foremost voice representing the exile cause in Washington was shot dead in a Puerto Rican suburb.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed businessmen to use a powerful law enforcement tool in a lawsuit alleging fraud in tax sales in Cook County, Ill.
WASHINGTON - The unrelenting contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has put the focus on what used to be overlooked details of the presidential nominating process.
ACORN sting conducted in National City [Corruption comes to my home town, San Diego]A duo posing as a prostitute and a pimp who secretly recorded themselves getting financial advice nationwide from the community organizing group ACORN conducted the sting in National City in July, an ACORN spokesman confirmed Wednesday afternoon.
Video Shows ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Plotting America's Downfall. By Matthew Vadum. on 7.29.09 @ 8:23PMOn his TV show today, Glenn Beck spotlighted a fascinating interview that ACORNcracked.com editor Kyle Olson conducted with disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
Shouldn't Presidential Candidates be held to the same conduct standard you are held to?
The Ladder of Drug War JusticeDrug War Joe Biden's daughter may have been caught on video snorting cocaine.
Federal Reserve Characteristics of a Crime Syndicate Faces LawsuitsIncredibly, with shock to many, the USFed will continue to withhold internal memos as well as information about trade secrets and commercial information.
Obama RICO ComplaintsThere IS a RICO investigation of ACORN and the Obama campaign underway - this has now been established by the mainstream media. Right now it's rumored here in Chicago that Patrick Fitzgerald is heading it (confirmation on that has not come yet).
U.S. islands brace for Hurricane OmarOmar strengthened into a hurricane and took aim at the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Wednesday after drenching the southeastern Caribbean.
Quake shakes Virgin Islands, Puerto RicoA strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and nearby Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages.
How Washington's Right-Wing Wrecking Crew Robbed Us BlindConservatives have turned a vast government built for our protection into a device for exploiting us.
Lawyers Press Russian Case Against a U.S. Bank The NYT reports: The Russian government sought Thursday to make Bank of New York Mellon liable under United States racketeering laws for $22.5 billion in damages arising from a money laundering scandal that helped undermine the Russian economy in the late 1990s.
Fired US Attorney: 'I was working for the Sith Lords'"It's fascinating to know that we're going to be treating this administration like the Gambinos," remarked Stewart.
Clinton wins Puerto Rico primary - Yahoo! NewsDude! If Clinton keeps this up, she'll be able to make it so Obama will not have enough delegates to call himself the "presumptive nominee".
Michael Vick has no friends, except for meMichael Vick is being villified in every mainstream and blog news and opinion piece I've found, other than a few rare pieces at the LRC it seems.
Michael Vick and the Feds: Who is more Barbaric?Second, there is no legal justification for federal involvement.
Geezer Gangster Spills Mob Secrets Admittedly, it's a little hard to sympathize with a confessed Mafia hit man who gets self-righteous about the failure of his cohorts to live up to their criminal code.
Court: Microsoft, Best Buy must stand trial for racketeeringIn reversing a U.S. District Court ruling that had tossed the lawsuit, the court of appeals says there is enough substance to the complaints to bring the companies to trial under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, often called the "RICO" act.
Gangster Government'Scooter' Libby finally outed 'Mr. Big,' the perpetrator of the heinous disclosure of the name of secret agent Valerie Plame. It was the President of United States himself—in conspiracy with his Vice-President.
skype to be whacked by Streamcast with RICO lawsuitIt's a tactic usually reserved for the wiseguys of organized crime (or the RIAA), but now VoIP outfit Skype could feel RICO's sting.
Skype hit with racketeering chargesStreamcast are hitting Skype with Racketeering Charges
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