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DEA: Mail workers in Puerto Rico trafficked drugs (AP)

September 29th, 2010

AP - Seven U.S. Postal Service workers in Puerto Rico have been indicted on charges they trafficked thousands of parcels of heroin, cocaine and marijuana through the mail, federal prosecutors…

Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron dies at 90 (AP)

August 2nd, 2010

AP - Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican independence activist who spent 25 years in prison for participating in a gun attack on the U.S. Congress a half-century ago, died Sunday.…

New bid to erect Columbus statue in Puerto Rico (AP)

July 29th, 2010

AP - Christopher Columbus is on the move again in the New World, after numerous rejections in a nearly two-decade quest to find him a suitable spot.

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Puerto Rico on alert after drug fugitive’s arrest (AP)

July 18th, 2010

Jose Figueroa Agosto is escorted handcuffed by DEA agents after his arrest in San Juan, Saturday July 17, 2010. Federal authorities arrested fugitive alleged drug kingpin Jose Figueroa Agosto Saturday after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean. (AP Photo/El Nuevo Dia, Tania Dumas) PUERTO RICO OUT - NO USAR O PUBLICAR EN PUERTO RICOAP - With the Caribbean’s biggest reputed drug lord back behind bars, law enforcement authorities in the region are on alert for potential bloody feuds among rivals and lieutenants trying…

Wife of ‘American Gangster’ nabbed in Puerto Rico (AP)

May 21st, 2010

AP - The wife of a 1970s heroin dealer who inspired the movie “American Gangster” has been arrested after officials said she tried to sell 2 kilograms (4 pounds) of…

Man caught at Puerto Rico airport with weapons (AP)

May 19th, 2010

AP - A man was arrested this week trying to board a flight out of Puerto Rico while carrying weapons that included a stun gun, a switchblade knife and four…

US detains NY-bound passenger in Puerto Rico (AP)

April 23rd, 2010

AP - A man on a flight from West Africa to New York City was removed from the plane and detained Thursday after authorities apparently added him to a no-fly…