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Puerto Rico ( or ), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (, —literally, "Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"), is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.
Read More at Wikipedia ›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 ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Federal authorities and police in the Dominican Republic have arrested one of Puerto Rico's most sought-after criminals.Miguel Diaz Rivera w...
The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: make Puerto Ricans fluent in English.Gov. Luis...
Here are some players to watch as likely top 10 picks in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, which gets underway June 4.1) MARK APPEL, RHP, STANFORDWh...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Born in a U.S. territory where he has lived all his life, Jose Marrero Rivera didn't know his name and social security number were racki...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's top health official warned Monday that the U.S. island could face its worst-ever dengue fever outbreak if people don't act...
The paradise island of Puerto Rico is characterized by a heady mix of laid-back Caribbean charm and infectious Latin American swagger, tinged with a distinctly Ameri...
The tropical U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is increasingly a backdrop in American and European cinema, standing in for Baghdad war zones, Brazilian slums, or cookie-...
Six-year-old Jaycco Paris has only tossed the ball toward the basket for a few minutes when he plunks himself down on a bench to rest before he starts wheezing.Jaycc...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Juan Mari Bras, an elder statesman of Puerto Rico's independence movement who gave up U.S. citizenship in an act that inspired hundreds ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Edwin Rodriguez has lived and breathed baseball for a long time. The moment he first stepped onto the field Monday at Hiram Bithorn Stad...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — New federal research shows that the overall health of waters in the bombing range-turned-tourist destination of Vieques is comparable to...
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...
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...
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...
Puerto Ricans are debating an upcoming referendum that would give judges the right to deny bail in certain murder cases.The proposal has the backing of both the gove...
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...
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...