Puerto Rican Americans
Overview
The island of Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) is the most easterly of the Greater Antilles group of the West Indies island chain. Located more than a thousand miles s...
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After months of denials, Puerto Rico's governor acknowledged Monday he is the target of a U.S. grand jury investigation into campaign finances _ a revelation further jeopardizing his bid for re-ele...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico(Reuters) - Hundreds of
people, angered over an alleged "pet massacre" in Puerto Rico's
northwest town of Barceloneta, joined in a protest march
Sunday from the island's Supre...
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Dozens of foreign-trained doctors accused of obtaining Puerto Rican medical licenses through fraud or bribery were arrested in raids across the island Thursday.A federal grand jury indicted 88 doct...
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Authorities have arrested three people in the slaying of a Puerto Rican labor leader, including the administrator of a beachfront vacation complex for union members that was under scrutiny for fina...
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A Puerto Rican police officer assigned to a DEA anti-drugs unit has been charged with carrying out a $515,000 armored car heist with three relatives and another man, and the FBI said Saturday it is...
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A Puerto Rican soldier killed in a mortar attack in Baghdad's Green Zone was the first Army nurse to die from combat-related injuries in the Iraq war, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Friday.Army Capt. ...
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The mayor of the city where contractors allegedly took pets from public housing projects and hurled them off a bridge said it will build its own shelter to hold captured animals.Barceloneta Mayor S...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Someone doused
her make-up and clothes with pepper spray, but Ingrid Marie
Rivera put on a happy face and managed to win the beauty
pageant that selected Puerto R...
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FBI agents on Monday searched a Puerto Rican labor union's oceanfront recreation complex that is at the heart of an alleged murder-for-hire scheme in the U.S. island territory.More than two dozen a...
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Puerto Rican Americans
Puerto Rican governor target of probe
