1 day ago
Three people have been killed and three others injured during a shooting at a gas station in Puerto Rico.
3 days ago
Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry.
4 days ago
Puerto Rico previously held nonbinding referendums in 1967, 1993 and 1998, with statehood never garnering a clear majority and independence never obtaining more than 5 percent of the vote.
9 days ago
As a child in Puerto Rico, Ismael Cruz was delighted by the colorful characters in "Sesame Street," who not only entertained and educated him, but helped him learn "inglés."
10 days ago
Officials say 48-year-old Reinaldo Diaz Camacho was charged after Puerto Rico police received information that he was having sexually explicit conversations with a 16-year-old boy on Facebook.
10 days ago
Puerto Rico's secretary of state says the deal seeks in part to provide training to farmers, increase literacy rates and develop affordable housing.
11 days ago
Catholics in Puerto Rico are rallying around an archbishop who is reportedly under pressure from the Vatican to resign.
12 days ago
Puerto Rico takes over ex-US naval station land
13 days ago
Coast Guard statistics show that between October 2010 and September 2011, only 13 such migrants were found, and at most five Puerto Rico-bound Haitians were arrested in the two years before that.
16 days ago
Four people have been killed and six others injured in a drive-by shooting in Puerto Rico.
18 days ago
More top officials at Puerto Rico's largest public university have resigned over the governor's signing of a hotly debated law to revamp the institution's board of directors.
63 days ago
The surprising Puerto Ricans first eliminated the star-studded United States, then took care of two-time World Baseball Classic champion Japan two days later in the event's first semifinal.
65 days ago
"Phillips can blame a U.S. batting slump - and 38-year-old right-hander Nelson Figueroa, who became the pride of Puerto Rico when he led his team into the semifinals and ousted the Americans, 4-3.
65 days ago
This time it was 38-year-old right-hander Nelson Figueroa, who became the pride of Puerto Rico on Friday night when he led his team into the semifinals and eliminated the Americans 4-3.
65 days ago
Dozens of teachers in Puerto Rico are protesting a proposal to cut retirement benefits and increase employee contributions to help save the island's crumbling public pension system.
65 days ago
Puerto Rico has been steadily losing population in recent years because of stagnant economy, high crime and other problems.
66 days ago
S&P also downgraded the rating of the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico on Thursday, saying it's not sufficiently independent from the state.
67 days ago
The Puerto Ricans went hitless in their first 12 at-bats with runners in scoring position but still overcame a 3-0 deficit to score once in the sixth inning and three times in the eighth.
68 days ago
Gonzalez pitched five scoreless innings and the Americans beat Puerto Rico 7-1 in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night.
69 days ago
Pitching a short drive from his hometown, Gio Gonzalez will start for the United States in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday against Puerto Rico.
70 days ago
Robinson Cano homered and the undefeated Dominican Republic beat Puerto Rico 4-2 on Sunday night to win their first-round group in the World Baseball Classic.
71 days ago
Ishikawa, a runner-up in Puerto Rico last year, made a hole-in-one on the eighth hole and closed with an eagle and back-to-back birdies on his last four holes.
71 days ago
Federal officials have rescued 71 Haitian migrants found stranded on the shores of a cluster of islands just west of Puerto Rico.
72 days ago
Lawyers have filed a lawsuit against Puerto Rico's police department, accusing it of discriminating against an officer for being an atheist and not adhering to the separation of church and state.
73 days ago
More than 150,000 illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic live in Puerto Rico, the majority in the capital of San Juan, along with thousands of other Caribbean immigrants, mostly from Haiti.
