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Scientists say one of Costa Rica's largest volcanos is spewing clouds of ash and gas, setting off a small-scale evacuation.Park rangers activated a green alert, the lowest of three levels, after the 10,958-foot (3,340-meter) Turrialba volcano rumbled loudly and emitted thick clouds of ash.Government seismologist Gino Gonzalez said Wednesday that the volcano appeared to be calming, but 20 people and their livestock had been moved from homes on the volcano's flanks.The volcano is 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of the capital, San Jose. It began a series of eruptions in 2007 and several nearby villages were evacuated in 2010 and 2012....
The Columbus Crew signed Costa Rican striker Jairo Arrieta on Thursday, but he not be available until the transfer window opens June 27.The 28-year-old Arrieta, who ...
An appeals court in Costa Rica has exonerated a former president convicted last year on corruption charges and sentenced to five years in prison.Miguel Angel Rodrigu...
Nicaraguan police say a Chilean photographer working for the French news agency Agence France-Presse has been deported because he entered a restricted area near Pres...
Costa Rica is asking soccer's governing body for a replay of Friday's World Cup qualifier against the United States, won 1-0 by the Americans during a snowstorm in C...
Costa Rica is asking soccer's governing body to order a replay of Friday's World Cup qualifier against the United States, won 1-0 by the Americans during a snowstorm...
Mainz inked Costa Rican defender Junior Diaz to a three-year contract Friday.The 28-year-old Diaz will join the German Bundesliga side from Belgian side Club Brugge....
The Columbus Crew signed Costa Rican forward year contract Friday, pending receipt of his ITC and 1 work visa.Vargas, 26, last played for Costa Rican First Division ...
Brad Guzan swatted away shot after shot and the Americans hung on for a 0-0 draw with Mexico on Tuesday night, earning only their second point in a World Cup qualifi...
Boston bombings cloud immigration moves. Senator Reid agrees on potential Obamacare 'train wreck'. Plus - latest Obama nominees.
A Syrian weapons facility was struck early Friday by Israeli warplanes, a U.S. official told Fox News.A source told Fox News that it is not clear whether the warplan...
President Barack Obama said Friday he doesn't foresee any circumstance requiring the U.S. to send ground troops into Syria, even as Washington pursues more evidence ...
President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to tamp down a potential rift with Mexico over a dramatic shift in the cross-border fight against drug trafficking and orga...
The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in hopes of completing a nascent trade bloc that looks to the Europea...
A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under the nation's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty of torture could be brought to trial.A ...
On a recent Friday morning at a gleaming new international airport in Costa Rica, hundreds of tourists from New York and Minnesota emerged blinking onto the sun-blas...
Lionel Messi was sidelined with a leg injury and Argentina managed only a lackluster scoreless draw with Costa Rica on Wednesday in an international friendly at the ...
Calling for an end to "old stereotypes," President Obama on Friday portrayed Mexico as an emerging nation that is remaking itself and said the U.S.-Mexico relationsh...
President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus economic relations between the U.S. and Mexico, even as fresh questions about security cooperation threaten to cast a sh...
Costa Rica wants to move a World Cup soccer qualifying game against the Unites States to cozy old Ricardo Saprissa.The Sept. 6 match was originally scheduled to be h...