Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:06 PM EDT
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.
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Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:32 PM EDT
An exclusive resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands that catered to celebrities and offered personal butlers and a pillow menu has closed after less than two years of operation.
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Wed Sep 9, 2009 9:01 PM EDT
The Cayman Islands is sacrificing beauty for bucks.
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Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:53 PM EDT
The 2009 Miss Universe says her title fulfills a lifelong dream — and an improbable one for a girl who finished last in one of her first beauty pageants.
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Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:18 PM EDT
Residents of a Puerto Rican town are vowing to fight a planned monkey-breeding facility for fear that the primates will escape and overrun their community.
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:08 PM EDT
The Miss Puerto Rico Petite competition stripped the reigning queen of her crown Friday, accusing the young woman of "intolerable conduct" that included threatening and assaulting pageant staff.
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Fri May 29, 2009 6:02 PM EDT
Puerto Rico fired nearly 8,000 government workers Friday, the start of a wave of layoffs aimed at closing a budget deficit as the island struggles through its third year of recession.
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Wed May 27, 2009 8:07 PM EDT
It's only the moon, emergency officials in Puerto Rico are telling nervous islanders who have feared that recent extreme tides portend a tsunami or biblical catastrophe.
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Tue May 26, 2009 6:19 PM EDT
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wasn't born in Puerto Rico but she keeps in close touch with family back on the island, relatives said Tuesday.
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Fri May 15, 2009 6:26 PM EDT
As American astronauts overhauled the aging Hubble, European scientists launched an even larger space telescope toward a far-flung orbit, hoping to help answer two questions: How did the cosmos begin and are we alone in it?
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Fri May 15, 2009 6:58 AM EDT
A rocket carrying the largest telescope ever has launched into space on a mission that European scientists hope will help unravel the mystery of the universe's creation.
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Fri May 8, 2009 8:45 PM EDT
Scientists are airlifting dozens of one of the world's largest frogs off of Montserrat island to save them from a deadly fungus devastating their dwindling habitat.
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Tue May 5, 2009 9:33 PM EDT
Four police officers in Trinidad allegedly hijacked a smuggling boat at gunpoint and stole 1,000 endangered birds and monkeys along with 400 pounds of wild animal meat, authorities said Tuesday.
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Fri May 1, 2009 8:53 PM EDT
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.
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Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:51 PM EST
Puerto Rico has found an unlikely solution to ease its surplus of pesky wild monkeys: ship them to Iraq.
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Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:11 PM EST
A U.S. swimmer crossed the Atlantic Ocean this month — but did she swim "across" the ocean?
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Sat Feb 7, 2009 6:29 PM EST
Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.
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Wed Feb 4, 2009 6:51 PM EST
A Puerto Rican man whose mother once slit the throats of two children was charged Thursday with killing a pregnant U.S. tourist in the same way after stuffing her in the trunk of his car.
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Tue Feb 3, 2009 7:26 PM EST
The Pentagon said Tuesday it is sending a top Navy official to review operations at Guantanamo Bay even though it believes they already meet international standards.
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:47 PM EST
The attorney for a Guantanamo detainee accused of masterminding the USS Cole bombing has requested that charges be dropped following comments from a Pentagon official regarding torture.
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:45 PM EST
The Pentagon formally approved war crimes charges Friday against a Guantanamo detainee accused of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, potentially setting up a high-profile arraignment in the final days of the Bush administration.
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Tue Dec 9, 2008 4:25 PM EST
A U.S. congressman and Puerto Rico's governor said Tuesday they have asked the State Department to investigate the treatment of four island businessmen who were detained in China and accused of using counterfeit money.
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Wed Dec 3, 2008 3:28 PM EST
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.
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Tue Dec 2, 2008 3:04 PM EST
About 200 workers have been laid off from a luxury resort in Puerto Rico, officials said Tuesday, adding to the struggles of a Caribbean hotel industry hit by falling revenues and bookings due to the global financial crisis.
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Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:51 PM EST
A group of Algerians who were ordered released from Guantanamo Bay on Thursday have long denied being terrorists, saying they were swept up in Bosnia and handed over to the U.S. as political pawns.
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