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A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto Rico.Puma Energy Caribe LLC says 56 gas stations across the island will participate in the program starting Wednesday. Puma says that if the program is successful, it will extend it to all its gas stations in the U.S. territory.Ethanol is routinely mixed with gasoline on the U.S. mainland as part of a 2007 federal renewable fuels law.Puma last year bought all of Chevron's gasoline stations and underground storage tank facilities in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The agreement included 185 Texaco-brand gas stations in Puerto Rico and seven stations in the U.S. Virgin Islands....
TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is mistreating squatters in a largely Dominican community, according to an unusual petition filed Wednesday to the Inter-Ame...
Major League Baseball is launching a training program in Puerto Rico aimed at talented teenagers who cannot afford specialized academies, an effort to spark player d...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is giving islanders one more month to use their original birth certificates before they are no longer recognized, as offices...
Two Puerto Rican sites have been named U.S. historic landmarks: the colonial district of Old San Juan and the home of a poet and literary critic.Old San Juan is the ...
Jose Antonio Torres Martino, a Puerto Rican painter and writer who helped create and expand art and journalism institutions on the U.S. island, died Friday. He was 9...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Throngs of supporters greeted a Puerto Rican nationalist leader Tuesday as he returned from nearly 30 years in prison for participating ...
Voters crowded polling stations across Puerto Rico on Sunday and rejected constitutional amendments that would have reduced the size of the U.S. territory's legislat...
In a story July 22 about cockfighting in Puerto Rico, The Associated Press reported erroneously that cockfights are not allowed elsewhere on U.S. territory. Cockfigh...
Puerto Rican voters will once again ponder the decades-old question over the island's political future when they go to the polls Tuesday: What kind of relationship d...
A gunbattle erupted Friday as FBI agents surrounded the hideout of a Puerto Rican nationalist leader wanted in the 1983 robbery of Connecticut armored truck depot, a...
No one is safe from the crosshairs of La Comay.This five-foot-tall character with a foam head painted with outrageous red lips, a shrill voice and a penchant for sal...
Puerto Rico's representative in Congress is seeking an unprecedented yes-or-no vote on whether the island should become the 51st state, a bill that is riling many in...
Puerto Ricans were facing a fundamental question on Election Day: Should they change their ties with the United States?Citizens in the U.S. island territory cannot v...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President Barack Obama may have been in Puerto Rico for only four hours, but his brief fundraising visit has unleashed a growing political fu...
Dallas Mavericks point guard Jose Juan Barea arrived in his native Puerto Rico on Wednesday to a hero's welcome that included a two-hour caravan under a blistering s...
Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno weighs in
A Puerto Rican retiree who served in some of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War received a belated appreciation Friday from the U.S. military, receiving one of ...
Haitians have fled their troubled country for years, attempting to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by heading north across the open sea or trekking across ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- President Barack Obama may have been in Puerto Rico for only four hours, but his brief fundraising visit has unleashed a growing political f...