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  • Family hurt in Texas pipeline explosion files suit 13 Nov 2009 02:34 GMT
    ... with burns, said Potter County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Roger Short. "My home is about 20 ... organization has reported. Yet local and federal government agencies have allowed the company to run ... the only privately-owned loading dock facility in Puerto Rico. A family whose members suffered burns when ...

  • Manny Pacquiao: One more Chance in Politics 12 Nov 2009 00:16 GMT
    ... if he can get elected to a political post or as congressman of his district ... Mindanao in the Philippines during the last election almost three years ago. He lost to ... of the Philippines and Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico will face each other in a boxing ...

  • Lawmakers lean on Pelosi and Rangel as rum squabble mounts 12 Nov 2009 12:10 GMT
    ... as rum squabble mounts The tug-of-war between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands over rum ... liquor company paid from U.S. rum taxes. Puerto Rican legislators are outraged that Diageo, the British-owned ... Morgan, is receiving tax dollars the U.S. government intended for the territories’ economic development and ...

  • Lawmakers lean on Pelosi and Rangel as controversy mounts over taxes on rum 12 Nov 2009 20:14 GMT
    ... over taxes on rum The tug-of-war between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands over rum ... liquor company paid from U.S. rum taxes. Puerto Rican legislators are outraged that Diageo, the British-owned ... Morgan, is receiving tax dollars the U.S. government intended for the territories’ economic development and ...

  • Hartford cop shot during foot chase 12 Nov 2009 21:34 GMT
    ... " Every poster about this could use an English lesson. ... can blame a culture. Not every black, puerto rican, mexican, haitian etc can be viewed as ... rising tide of shortfalls. So, until all politicians grow a set and are willing to ...

  • 'Manny Pacquiao has the power' 12 Nov 2009 23:33 GMT
    ... Manny Pacquiao will send Cotto packing, says trainer Manny ... Glory awaits should Pacquiao defeat the teak-tough Puerto Rican. Pacquiao, already a major crossover star in ... in Asia who intends to move into politics next year, will become the first boxer ...

  • H.R. 2499's opponents' plan for Puerto Rico is nonviable 10 Nov 2009 23:37 GMT
    ... H.R. 2499’s opponents’ plan for Puerto Rico is nonviable By Roberto Arango, Senate majority ... regarding their preferences as to the territory’s political status. In a recent letter to the ... this straightforward bill, H.R. 2499, the territorial government could conduct periodic referenda asking voters if ...

  • Politics of health care 11 Nov 2009 16:51 GMT
    ... the 'moral high ground'. It's NEVER about 'politics as usual'! "It'll 'sound' good in a ... Have we as a people forgotten the election and prefer to “demure” in malaise and ... state, including the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Types of ...

  • Column: Greater civic engagement will make Latinos a political force 8 Nov 2009 06:36 GMT
    ... Column: Greater civic engagement will make Latinos a political force This year's elections in key Massachusetts ... now Latino. In Springfield, Jose Tosado, a Puerto Rican, received the most votes for city council, ...

  • Dominican town plagued by birth defects; is U.S. company to blame? 8 Nov 2009 12:56 GMT
    ... local homes for years while the company, politicians, prosecutors, environmental activists and bureaucrats argued - ... moistened residue from a coal-burning plant in Puerto Rico owned by AES. The Puerto Rican government was pressuring AES to rid the ...

  • Dominican town plagued by birth defects wants to know if U.S. company is to blame 7 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... local homes for years while the company, politicians, prosecutors, environmental activists and bureaucrats argued - ... moistened residue from a coal-burning plant in Puerto Rico owned by AES. The Puerto Rican government was pressuring AES to rid the ...

  • Changes in AP Latin American, Caribbean operations 11 Nov 2009 22:30 GMT
    ... hosted dozens of Latin American presidents, emerging political power brokers, opposition leaders and dissidents. Yet ... Caribbean operations, closing a service limited to Puerto Rican news within Puerto Rico while adding editors and reporters elsewhere for ...

  • PR's Calle 13 leads Latin Grammy nominations, ceremony to remember Mercedes Sosa 7 Nov 2009 19:36 GMT
    ... categories including album of the year, the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Calle 13 is a favourite ... whose real name is Rene Perez, offended political figures from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Santiago, Chile with his cutting populist ...

  • 11/8 WORLD BRIEFS: Iran frees3 jailed journalists 8 Nov 2009 05:34 GMT
    ... among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the ... overblown. U.S. tourist dies ‘car surfing’ in Puerto Rico SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Police say ... and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town. Police spokeswoman Yolanda Hernandez SAID ...

  • Day - 5 b4 e-day 8 Nov 2009 15:12 GMT
    ... discarded like a Garapan condom on the Puerto Rico solid waste landfill of the dustbin of ... to eternity, we still operate out of political structures prevailing more than two centuries ago! ... to adjudicate differences of views and actions-a government of check and balances based in distrust ...


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