Mayor says farmhouse where Puerto Rican militant killed in shootout with FBI should be museumMAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico — A bullet-scarred farmhouse where the fugitive leader of a militant Puerto Rican nationalist group was killed in a shootout with FBI agents is a historical site deserving preservation, a mayor in this U.S. territory said Wednesday. Bermuda police make arrest as investigation of Emerald Financial Group announcedSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Bermuda police on Wednesday announced they are investigating the Emerald Financial Group, an offshore investment company in the wealthy British territory. Puerto Rican legal advocacy group to send documents to Senate panel evaluating SotomayorWASHINGTON — A Puerto Rican civil rights leader said Tuesday he was ready to start sending a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s past to the Senate panel considering her nomination. Puerto Ricans fight monkey-breeding facility, cite previous runaway problemSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — 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. Puerto Rican police say man robs San Juan hotel-casino of $340,000 by showing threatening noteSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Police in Puerto Rico’s capital are searching for a lone man who robbed $340,000 from a popular hotel and casino by threatening a supervisor’s family. Petite Puerto Rican beauty stripped of crown for coarse language, death threats, pageant saysSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — 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. Police in Puerto Rico arrest man accused of snatching 88 pieces of underwear from neighborSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico police said they have arrested a man accused of snatching 88 pieces of underwear from a neighbor’s clothesline. The man was charged with theft and illegal appropriation. Police said Wednesday that he returned all $1,000 worth of underwear to the woman. Guantanamo prisoner on prolonged hunger strike released, returns to Saudi ArabiaSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo prisoner who had been on continual hunger strike for almost four years has been released. Guantanamo detainee who allegedly committed suicide had been prisoners’ representativeSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo Bay detainee who left his cell to meet with military commanders as prisoner representative never returned, and was instead sent to a psychiatric ward where he died five months later, a former detainee recalled. New details emerge about Guantanamo detainee who allegedly committed suicideSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Almost five months before he was found dead at Guantanamo Bay, a detainee volunteered to represent prisoners in talks with the military and left his jailhouse for a meeting with the detention camp’s most senior commanders. But he never returned — from then on, he was held in the prison’s psychiatric ward, a former detainee recalled. New Jersey law professor alleges Pentagon inflates recidivism of freed Gitmo detaineesSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A New Jersey law professor and his students are alleging that the Defense Department has inflated recidivism rates of former Guantanamo prisoners to sway public opinion against the men. Lawyer: Guantanamo detainee wants to keep military counsel for terrorism trial in USSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo detainee transferred to the U.S. for trial in the American embassy bombings in Africa wants to keep his military defense team, one of the attorneys said Tuesday. Sotomayor self-portrait: A nagging insecurity and a taste for pig innards and ‘Law & Order’WASHINGTON — She likes to eat pig intestines and watch “Law & Order.” She felt like an alien in the Ivy League. She reads fictional courtroom dramas and hands down imaginary rulings on the lawyers’ objections therein. US returns body of Guantanamo detainee who died of apparent suicide to YemenSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. has returned the body of a Guantanamo detainee who apparently committed suicide to his native Yemen. Pig intestines, Mmm! Sotomayor’s portrait shows vivid family life, uncertainty in Ivy LeagueWASHINGTON — She likes to eat pig intestines and watch “Law & Order.” She felt like an alien in the Ivy League. She reads fictional courtroom dramas and hands down imaginary rulings on the lawyers’ objections therein. Wine collection, private jet up for liquidation in alleged Caribbean Ponzi schemeSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A court-appointed receiver wants to sell off a wine collection, a private jet and two Cadillacs, among other property, to pay off victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme involving a Caribbean offshore bank, according to court documents. Military: Gitmo detainee who died in apparent suicide had recently given up hunger strikeSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay who died of an apparent suicide this week was not on a hunger strike at the time of his death, but he had been force-fed with a nasal tube in the past, a prison spokesman said Wednesday. Military: Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay dies in apparent suicide in cellSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. His is the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore U.S. prison, which President Barack Obama hopes to close by January. The Joint Task Force that runs the U.S. prison in Cuba said guards conducting a routine check found Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Monday night. Sotomayor nomination ‘virtually filibuster-proof,’ leading Democratic senator saysWASHINGTON — A leading Democratic senator says that President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is “virtually filibuster-proof” when his colleagues look at her record. Puerto Rico begins mass layoffs of government workers to help cut $3.2 billion deficitSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — 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. Attorney says Guantanamo prisoner slashed wrist, hurled blood during prison meetingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Yemeni held at Guantanamo slashed his wrist and hurled the blood at his lawyer during a meeting at the prison, the attorney said Monday, describing the incident as a suicide attempt by a psychologically troubled man who should be returned home immediately for treatment. Attorney says Guantanamo prisoner slashed wrist, hurled blood during prison meetingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A lawyer for a Yemeni held at Guantanamo says the prisoner slashed his wrist and threw the blood during a meeting at the U.S. prison. 2-pound ‘mountain chicken’ frogs hop on planes, flee fungus in MontserratSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — 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. US regulators warn Procter & Gamble plant over unsanitary conditions at Puerto Rico plantSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.S. regulators warned Procter & Gamble Co. over unsanitary conditions at a plant that makes Olay skin care products and Vicks cold medicine in Puerto Rico, according to a letter released Tuesday. 2 Atlanta tourists located after spending night in Puerto Rican rainforestSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Authorities in Puerto Rico have found two tourists from Atlanta who were forced to spend the night in a rainforest after getting lost in El Yunque. 5 Caribbean countries report double-digit drop in tourist arrivals this yearSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Five Caribbean countries are reporting double-digit drops in tourist visits as the global economic slowdown wreaks havoc on the region’s top industry. US Senate Republican leader McConnell demands Obama explain where Gitmo detainees will goSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President Barack Obama came under fire Tuesday for including $80 million to close Guantanamo in a massive funding request to fight America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The $83.4 billion request to Congress was submitted on April 9, when lawmakers were on break over the Easter holidays. Search on for 10 missing Haitians in CaribbeanSAN JUAN - The US Coast Guard has launched a massive search operation for 10 missing Haitians whose boat capsized in the Caribbean Sea Monday, the EFE news agency reported Wednesday. |
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