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Today Headlines - 1:28 PM 7/16/2012: ACLU REPORT SAYS 1700 PUERTO RICAN POLICE OFFICERS ARE CRIMINALS | Fortuño again on Council of Governors - By CB Online Staff | Analysis: U.S., FCC must focus on Puerto Rico’s broadband deficiency | PR gets $19M for health preparedness | 3 Puerto Rico Reggaeton Singers Under DEA Scrutiny - AP | Puerto Ricans complain of US 'deadly legacy' 06 Jun 2008 - Hot Latest News | PR chief justice touts role of drug courts in crime fight | Puerto Rico cop gets 40 years for helping gangs - WGME | Kiaraliz Medina crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2012 - Examiner.com |

 Today Headlines - 1:28 PM 7/16/2012: ACLU REPORT SAYS 1700 PUERTO RICAN POLICE OFFICERS ARE CRIMINALS | Fortuño again on Council of Governors - By CB Online Staff | Analysis: U.S., FCC must focus on Puerto Rico’s broadband deficiency | PR gets $19M for health preparedness | 3 Puerto Rico Reggaeton Singers Under DEA Scrutiny - AP | Puerto Ricans complain of US 'deadly legacy' 06 Jun 2008 - Hot Latest News | PR chief justice touts role of drug courts in crime fight | Puerto Rico cop gets 40 years for helping gangs - WGME | Kiaraliz Medina crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2012 - Examiner.com |


ACLU REPORT SAYS 1700 PUERTO RICAN POLICE OFFICERS ARE CRIMINALS 


Fortuño again on Council of Governors - By CB Online Staff 


Analysis: U.S., FCC must focus on Puerto Rico’s broadband deficiency

 - “Puerto Rico is a digital problem that can be solved. But it is time for Congress, the FCC, and Puerto Rican leaders to come together to find an effective solution for the island, before its people are left in the digital dust... ”

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Kiaraliz Medina will represent Puerto Rico at the Miss America 2013 pageant. She qualified for the Miss Puerto Rico pageant by winning the Miss Moca pageant.
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3 Puerto Rico Reggaeton Singers Under DEA Scrutiny - AP

3 Puerto Rico Reggaeton Singers Under DEA Scrutiny

By DANICA COTO Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico July 12, 2012 (AP)


Three Puerto Rican reggaeton stars have come under U.S. scrutiny after recently performing at the wedding of an alleged drug trafficker in Colombia who had been presumed dead, a federal official said Thursday.
Singer Arcangel and duo Jowell & Randy were among seven Puerto Rican artists present at the wedding who the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration wants to question, said Pedro Janer, acting special agent in charge of the DEA's Caribbean division.
"We're definitely going to look into it," he said. "This guy was a pretty notorious drug trafficker."
The artists were performing at the weeklong wedding party of Camilo Torres, who is nicknamed "Fritanga" after a Colombian dish of fried meat. Colombian authorities raided the party in late June just hours after the wedding and arrested Torres, who Janer said had assumed a new identity after someone filed a false death certificate for him in 2010.
The party was held on the island of Mucara off Colombia's Caribbean coast and featured theme nights, fireworks and a bikini-clad bride.
The DEA wants to know how the artists were contracted, how much they were paid and how they arrived in Colombia, among other things, he said.
"This guy was a significant trafficker, and to find seven guys from Puerto Rico there, even though they claim they were working, or performing, that's fine, but it's not the typical venue," Janer said.
The Puerto Ricans know things that "would probably be of very good use to the Colombian authorities," he added.
Uka Green, a publicist for Arcangel and his managing company, Pina Records, said DEA agents are welcome to interview anyone who was at the wedding. She said none of those present knew who was financing their performance.
"Of course they did not know the groom or the bride or anyone else," Green said. "This is a very unpleasant situation for all those involved. Obviously, we don't want to be making comments that do not contribute to the security and well-being of the employees who were there."
Pina Records issued its own statement denying that someone working with Arcangel had identified himself as a U.S. police officer during the raid as alleged by Colombian media.
A man who answered the phone at Vallejo Enterprises, a company that represents reggaeton duo Jowell & Randy, declined to comment and said he did not know whether anyone would issue a statement.
Janer said he might ask the IRS and the U.S. Attorney's Office for help, along with Puerto Rico's Treasury Department, if the DEA decides to fully investigate the case.
"If there's money involved, we would like to see what kind of finances these performers have," he said, adding that they typically get paid double or triple what they normally charge.
It is rare for singers or other artists to be directly accused of ties to drug trafficking since it's the promoters and managers who are involved in direct negotiations and sign the contracts, Janer said.
"The thing is, at what point does the artist or the artist's manager realize that this is drug money and that people behind it are drug traffickers?" he said. "That's what they claim they never know."

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Puerto Rican Festival High Street New Britain, CT - 7.14.2012

Puerto Rican Festival High Street New Britain, CT - 7.14.2012


Published on Jul 14, 2012 by
7/14/2012 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Alfred Rivera plays the national anthems of the United States and Puerto Rico during the 25th Annual Puerto Rican Festival on High Street in New Britain on Saturday.



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By LLUVIA MARES
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NEW BRITAIN ��” The aroma of pork, chicken and sweet plantains ��” a Puerto Rican staple ��” filled the air at the 25th annual Puerto Rican Festival Saturday.

The festival, complete with music, traditional foods and many vendors, showed off the rich Puerto Rican culture and attracted more than 5,000 people throughout the day.



Siblings Carmen and Nelson Santiago lounged in their blue lawn chairs outside 152 High St., to enjoy the free concerts the festival offered.

“We try to come here every year,” Carmen said. “We brought our chairs to relax and just sit and enjoy watching the shows, listening to the music and just watching the people interact.”

Carmen said although it’s nothing like being back at home in Puerto Rico, the festival reminds her a lot of how it used to be growing up in Puerto Rico.

“The smell of the food reminds me a lot,” she said. “And just all the people walking around the streets eating and dancing to salsa.”

Traditional Puerto Rican fares included, alcapuris, meat pudding made with green bananas; arroz con grandules, which is rice with pigeon beans and deep-fried stuffed potatoes.

The extravaganza, which was hosted by the Puerto Rican Society, is an important celebration for New Britain because of its high percentage of Puerto Rican residents.

About 30 percent of the city’s 74,000 residents are of Puerto Rican decent, according to Isabel Rosa, festival coordinator.

“We really feel like we are in Puerto Rico when we celebrate every year,” she said.

Ann Boyd, a Meriden resident drove to New Britain specifically for the festival.

“I brought my father to the festival. He doesn’t like to go anywhere, but he never misses the festival,” Boyd said. “He always tells me he needs to go to represent his Island.”

The festival took up at least two city blocks on and around High Street.

Vendors sold everything from Puerto Rican flags, t-shirts, music including merengue, salsa and Latin jazz.

Zovera Sanchez, of Hartford said she doesn’t always get a chance to enjoy the festivities due to travel, however, when she gets the opportunity she never misses it.

“It’s just such a fun thing to come and do,” she said. “It’s nice to see everyone just having a good time and you get to learn about your roots.”

According to the society, the festival is another way to combat challenges faced by Puerto Ricans new to the city, such as language barriers and it also introduces them to the large Puerto Rican community.

LLuvia Mares can be reached at (860) 584-0501, ext. 7238 or lmares@centralctcommunications.com
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Analysis: U.S., FCC must focus on Puerto Rico’s broadband deficiency - “Puerto Rico is a digital problem that can be solved. But it is time for Congress, the FCC, and Puerto Rican leaders to come together to find an effective solution for the island, before its people are left in the digital dust,” Livingston concluded.

“Puerto Rico is a digital problem that can be solved. But it is time for Congress, the FCC, and Puerto Rican leaders to come together to find an effective solution for the island, before its people are left in the digital dust,” Livingston concluded.

Analysis: U.S., FCC must focus on Puerto Rico’s broadband deficiency

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The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council recently weighed in on Puerto Rico’s lagging broadband availability and use, saying the U.S. and the Federal Communications Commission have the responsibility of helping the island move forward in deployment and consumer adoption.
In an article titled “Disregarded: Has the U.S. forgotten its responsibility to bring Puerto Rico into the 21st century?” attorney Latoya Livingston further said island residents “deserve access to broadband just as if they were citizens living in Connecticut or Wyoming. But they are nowhere near the level of access we enjoy in the 50 states.”
“Puerto Rico should not be an afterthought in U.S. and FCC regulation and policy. Puerto Rico is the poster child of the broadband adoption challenge,” she said. “It is facing the great U.S. infrastructure challenge of the 21st century, which makes building out broadband in the country extremely difficult.”
In her column, Livingston outlined Puerto Rico’s broadband penetration rate, which stands at about 86 percent — significantly lower than the 95 percent stateside average. Furthermore, according to the Broadband Task Force, adoption levels across the island currently hover at around 31 percent, less than half of the 68 percent of mainland U.S. households.
“Communications companies cite lack of interest in broadband and adoption on the island as a major blow to the business case for investing in deployment, but without access to and education about the benefits of the technology, it’s hard to blame the citizenry for their lack of enthusiasm for the service,” Livingston noted.
Forward-looking solutions
Looking ahead, Livingston noted that if Puerto Rico’s broadband usage does not improve, the negative effects would be mostly noticeable in education and healthcare.
In her analysis, the Washington D.C.-based attorney presented several solutions to the problem, including pushing Congress and the FCC to include Puerto Rico in its broadband initiatives.
“Congress and the FCC can include Puerto Rico in their broadband initiatives, but have lately chosen to restrict many of those programs to the 50 states,” she said. “Unfortunately for the people of Puerto Rico, the island needs U.S. involvement to build out broadband infrastructure, but have yet to see much help.”
In March 2012, the FCC shut out Puerto Rico from a $300 million capital injection it made available to build out broadband throughout the nation. That omission caught the attention of Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who during a public hearing in May grilled the FCC about why the national broadband plan is not factoring the island as part of the U.S.
Compounding the situation is the fact that Puerto Rico was also left out of the funding made available under the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program for its Sustainable Adoption or Public Computing Center programs.
“Puerto Rico is a digital problem that can be solved. But it is time for Congress, the FCC, and Puerto Rican leaders to come together to find an effective solution for the island, before its people are left in the digital dust,” Livingston concluded.

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PR gets $19M for health preparedness

PR gets $19M for health preparedness

 
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Puerto Rico is getting a $19 million funding shot under U.S. Health & Human Services Department efforts to improve preparedness and health outcomes for a wide range of public health threats around the nation.
Some $11.8 million of the money assigned for Puerto Rico is earmarked for improving medical response capacity and preparing hospitals for public health emergencies.
Another $4.9 million will be split by island government agencies for emergency preparation, $2.8 million is for security strategies implementation and $655,000 is for Operation Stonegarden, a joint effort between the U.S. Customs & Border Patrol and the Puerto Rico Police Department.
The funds also include $32,000 for security at the Port of the Americas in Ponce.
“We must be alert and these federal funds shore up our preparations,” Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi said.
The funding includes $50,000 to train medical and public health graduate students at the University of Puerto Rico.
HHS has awarded more than $971 million to continue improving preparedness and health outcomes for a wide range of public health threats within every state, eight U.S. territories, and four of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.
“Health care and public health systems that are prepared to respond successfully to emergencies and recover quickly from all hazards are also able to deliver services more effectively and efficiently every day,” said Dr. Nicole Lurie, HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response. “Having systems in place to provide better treatment for disaster survivors and improved public health for our communities also leads to better health outcomes on a day-to-day basis.”
The funding awards included a total of approximately $352 million awarded for the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) cooperative agreement and more than $619 million awarded for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement.

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Fortuño again on Council of Governors


By CB Online Staff
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President Barack Obama has named Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño to a second term on the Council of Governors, a group established in 2010 to tighten collaboration between the federal and state governments on national security issues.
The Council of Governors, which includes five Democratic and five Republican governors, is named directly by the president. The secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security also sit on the council, as do presidential assistants for homeland security and counterterrorism, intergovernmental affairs, the U.S. Northern Command commander, the commandant of the Coast Guard, and the chief of the National Guard Bureau.
The other governors appointed to the council are: Jan Brewer (Arizona); Jack Markell (Delaware); Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii); Terry Branstad (Iowa); Martin O’Malley (Maryland); Jay Nixon (Missouri); Bob McDonnell (Virginia); Chris Gregoire (Washington); and Matt Mead (Wyoming).
“I am honored once again to accept this nomination to serve a second term as a member of this important body,” Fortuño said. “My participation has allowed me to stress the strategic importance of Puerto Rico as the nation’s Caribbean frontier and to contribute to improving intergovernmental coordination.”

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ACLU REPORT SAYS 1700 PUERTO RICAN POLICE OFFICERS ARE CRIMINALS

ACLU REPORT SAYS 1700 PUERTO RICAN POLICE OFFICERS ARE CRIMINALS




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CNN uploaded a video on it TODAY, making it a current event as far as we're concerned. The nonexistent antecedent of "this story" in the previous sentence being, "Puerto Rico's police force is super corrupt."
The American Civil Liberties Union released a report on the Puerto Rican police, which is the second-largest police force in the United States (obviously including territories here), on June 19, and it ain't pretty. While attention on police misbehavior in ACTUAL states has increased thanks to the string of abuses associated with Occupy Movement protests, those incidents don't hold a candle to the sorts of horrors contained in the ACLU report.
Did I read the entire paper? No, dummy, it's 182 pages long, but you can download it and knock yourself out if you want. The section headers alone, though, are enough to make you cancel your cruise to San Juan. They are: III. Shooting to Kill: Unjustified Use of Lethal Force IV. Police Brutality against Low-Income, Black, and Dominican Communities V. Billy Clubs versus Speech: Excessive Force against Protesters to Suppress Speech and Expression VI. Documented Cases of Police Abuse against Protesters VII. Failure to Police Crimes of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault VIII. Total Impunity: Failure to Investigate or Punish Police Brutality IX. A Lawless Police Force: Lack of Guidance Governing the Use of Force, X. Relevant Constitutional and Human Rights Law.

Well then. Even if you remove some of the florid rhetoric, the ACLU report doesn't exactly paint a pretty picture of Puerto Rico's police. Between 2005 and 2010, 1,700 of the island's 17,000-member force were arrested for various crimes ranging from domestic abuse to murder. It's worth remembering that police despise disciplining their own, so I can only imagine what those who DON'T get arrested are doing with their time.
But why should we care? After all, Puerto Rico isn't even a state, and the last time I checked, they don't speak Anglish down there. CNN, can you help us out?
Yes, CNN will help. The reporters in the video below repeatedly remind us that the nearly 4 million people who reside in Puerto Rico are in fact UNITED STATES CITIZENS. Who knew? It's not like this is happening in a foreign country, as correspondent Nick Valencia points out. This is OUR country. If Puerto Rico were a foreign country we could send in a drone strike and not have to worry about it, but here in AMERICA, this shit won't fly.
Watch the video, please. It begins with the lead, "Well, if you don't follow what's going on in Puerto Rico, here is one reason why you should." Thanks, CNN!
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit with the feds and is calling for swift action from the US and Puerto Rican governments. Things don't usually work out too well when America tries to impose its will on brown people who don't speak English, but remember: THESE ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT - 7 JUL 12.

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(`*•.¸ (`*•.¸(`*•.¸ (`*•.¸*☆.OPEN TO READ MORE☆. *¸.•*´) ¸.•*´).•*´) ¸.•*´) Puerto Rican flag & Sunset Nail Art Design Tutorial Our parade is this weekend so i wanted to share my nails with you all :) I truly appreciate all your love & support xoxoxo :) Disclaimer: I have no affiliation to any of the company brands I mention in this video No one sent me anything or is paying me to mention anything everything i mention i got with my own money : )
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via YouTube Videos matching query: puerto rico by AnarchySparkle16 on 6/27/12
Yes, I still love Puerto Rico, and I'm going!!!!!!!!!!!
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via YouTube Videos matching query: puerto rico by CrazyParrotTours on 6/28/12
If you're staying in the main tourist district of San Juan and you want a non-touristy day trip without renting a car, this one is for you! Join Elise as she takes a day trip by foot, bus, and train to the Placita de Santurce, the Botanical Gardens of the University of Puerto Rico, and more! www.crazyparrottours.com
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via YouTube Videos matching query: puerto rico by tkes3titoff on 7/2/12
Puerto Ricans take big pride in our culture can't wait for July 8th 2012 for the parade going fresh just how I do. Track: Mickey Stacx - Stacx Season Vol. 1 - Whip It Please comment below, I would like your honest opinion on the track negative or positive if your interested in hearing new music send me your email address and i'll send a zip file just trying to look out. Game is what some may call "messed" up or in need for a change I would have to agree to a point. Shot out to INTGkicks just check the video below one man has a voice together we can destroy what we created to rebuild. www.youtube.com If your interested in your own custom piece type in the link below.. www.Wetpaintcustoms.blogspot.com
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Ricky Martin - La Bomba



Ricky Martin - La Bomba
Ricky Martin - La Bomba Music video by Ricky Martin performing La Bomba. (C) 2008 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT From: RickyMartinVEVO Views: 4513763 7219 ratingsTime: 03:46 More in Music

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GLEE - Full Performance of "Sexy And I Know It" airing TUE 2/7



GLEE - Full Performance of &quot;Sexy And I Know It&quot; airing TUE 2/7
GLEE - Full Performance of "Sexy And I Know It" airing TUE 2/7 Catch an all-new episode of GLEE on TUE at 8/7c on FOX! bit.ly ('Like' on Facebook) bit.ly (Follow on Twitter) bit.ly (+1 on Google+) From: GleeOnFox Views: 11782755 47464 ratingsTime: 02:45 More in Entertainment

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Ricky Martin - She Bangs (English)



Ricky Martin - She Bangs (English)
Ricky Martin - She Bangs (English) Music video by Ricky Martin performing She Bangs. (C) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (Holland) BV From: RickyMartinVEVO Views: 11588976 7976 ratingsTime: 04:06 More in Music




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Puerto Rico: New nature reserve on north coast
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Cyclists stand on a beach in the Northeast Ecological Corridor Reserve in the municipality of Luquillo in Puerto Rico. The swath of pristine beachfront property along Puerto Rico's north coast that developers have long coveted is now a nature reserve ...

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Renewed Atlanta Silverbacks top Islanders 2:1
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In interim head coach Eric Wynalda's first home game in charge, the Atlanta Silverbacks topped the second-place Puerto Rico Islanders, 2-1, Saturday night in fr.
Silverbacks win second consecutive under WynaldaAtlanta Journal Constitution
Silverbacks notch first home win, second straight victoryAccess North Georgia
Silverbacks Bolster Attack with Three SigningsPatch.com

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Hartford Courant
Thousands in attendance at the Puerto Rican festival (VIDEO)
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... Puerto Rican staple �€” filled the air at the 25th annual Puerto Rican Festival Saturday. The festival, complete with music, traditional foods and many vendors, showed off the rich Puerto Rican culture and attracted more than 5000 people throughout ...
New Britain Police Looking For Plenty Of Good Men And WomenHartford Courant

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Hartford Courant
Thousands in attendance at the Puerto Rican festival (VIDEO)
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... a Puerto Rican staple - filled the air at the 25th annual Puerto Rican Festival Saturday. The festival, complete with music, traditional foods and many vendors, showed off the rich Puerto Rican culture and attracted more than 5000 people throughout ...
New Britain Police Looking For Plenty Of Good Men And WomenHartford Courant

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San Francisco Chronicle
Free Classifieds Website Kedna.com Adds San Juan Classifieds and Guaynabo ...
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By adding San Juan classifieds and Guaynabo classifieds to our network, we help buyers, sellers, employers and job seekers in Central and Southern Puerto Rico connect easily and efficiently. [...] they can share their ads over Facebook, Twitter and ...

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3 Puerto Rico Reggaeton Singers Under DEA Scrutiny
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico July 12, 2012 (AP). Three Puerto Rican reggaeton stars have come under U.S. scrutiny after recently performing at the wedding of an alleged drug trafficker in Colombia who had been presumed dead, a federal official said Thursday.
US probes ties between Puerto Rico reggaeton singers, accused drug trafficker ...Washington Post
Arcangel, Jowell y Randy Under DEA Investigation for Ties With Drug TraffickerFox News

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Derek Reese scores 20 points to lead Puerto Rico over China
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Derek Reese scored 20 points and pulled down 16 rebounds Sunday to lead Puerto Rico past China 84-71 on the final day of the Nike Global Challenge at the Washington D.C. Armory.
Vols' Reese again leads Puerto Rico U19 team in scoringNooga.com

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Kiaraliz Medina crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2012
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Kiaraliz Medina will represent Puerto Rico at the Miss America 2013 pageant. She qualified for the Miss Puerto Rico pageant by winning the Miss Moca pageant. He.

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Puerto Rican parade celebrates Latinos in Holyoke
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Holyoke residents celebrate Puerto Rican Parade of Western Massachusetts.
Thousands attend Latino Festival in HolyokeWWLP 22News

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Vols' Reese Pushes Puerto Rico Past China At Global Challenge
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Puerto Rico finished the three-day event with a 1-2 record to claim seventh place. Reese started all three games for Puerto Rico, averaging 21.0 points, 12.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 32.0 minutes per game (all three were team-highs). The Orlando, Fla.
Derek Reese scores 20 points to lead Puerto Rico over ChinaGoVolsXtra
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3 Puerto Rico reggaeton singers under DEA scrutiny
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3 Puerto Rico reggaeton singers under DEA scrutiny.

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Puerto Rico cop gets 40 years for helping gangs
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International News. Puerto Rico cop gets 40 years for helping gangs. July 12, 2012 23:42 GMT. %reldate(2012-07-12T23:36:00. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A former policeman in the U.S. island of Puerto Rico has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for ...

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 13, 2012) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team used 20 blocks to defeat Puerto Rico 25-15, 25-12, 25-14 Friday evening during the Women's Pan American Cup at Juarez, Mexico.

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Hidden away in Puerto Rico's Carite Forest, Guavate, a small town in the mountainous Cayey region, is the kind of place that makes hotel concierges say, “You want to go there?” Fifty kilometres outside of the colonial capital ...

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Tennessee basketball player Derek Reese led all scorers for the second time in as many days Saturday as his Puerto Rican U19 team suffered an 85-59 loss at the hands of the USA Midwest squad at the 2012 Nike Global Challenge., ...

via puerto rico - Google Blog Search by Eric Bynum on 7/14/12
Day 2 of the 2012 Haarlem Baseball Week included a win by Puerto Rico and the USA.

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Mona island, off the west coast of Puerto Rico, could be recognize as a World Heritage site. New Progressive Party Representative Eric Correa Rivera is petitioning the United Nations to add the uninhabited island to its list of ...

via puerto rico - Google Blog Search by JoshB on 7/15/12
Puerto Ricans are to vote on their island's political status in a referendum scheduled for August 2012. They will be asked whether they want a change in status or prefer to remain in a US commonwealth. In a second part of the ...

via puerto rico - Google Blog Search by Gwenn on 7/15/12
We love visiting Old San Juan - it is so colorful and interesting. One could spend ages there and never run out of things to do, see, photograph, and learn. Some of the most unique and interesting things are often overlooked.

via puerto rico - Google Blog Search by William Fair Roberts on 7/16/12
in the Puerto Rican sun. There was a soft breeze blowing and I could smell what I assume were the aromas of Sunday lunches being prepared all over Ponce. The weather was and still is glorious with only a few stray clouds ...

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The Sales and Marketing Executives Association is conducting a study entitled: “La Marca Enredada.

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Culson’s winning streak alive in London

Puerto Rico’s Javier Culson took first place in the 400-meter hurdles on Friday, ...

House speaker hits 2 PDP lawmakers with ethics complaints in airport flap

House Speaker Jenniffer González filed ethics complaints against Popular Democra ...

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Napolitano pledges PR drug violence ‘fix’

Gov. Luis Fortuño said Friday that U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretar ...

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Napolitano: More ammo for PR drug fight

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is pledging more ...

Possible pilot shortage raises concerns

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Slowing China can’t play economic hero

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The noisiest shareholder activist takes a break

Evelyn Y. Davis is the world’s most famous shareholder activist. She’s also the ...

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Key Alzheimer drug results coming soon

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PR chief justice touts role of drug courts in crime fight

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Mitt Romney’s lack of full disclosure of his finances keeps voters from seeing the breadth of his tax avoidance.

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With the economy coming up short by millions of jobs since the start of the Great Recession, aid to state and local governments would have a powerful effect on hiring.

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An independent investigation on the cover-up of child rape by “the most powerful men at Penn State” ought to have legal consequences.

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Judges routinely jail people to make them pay fines even when they have no money to pay, flouting the Constitution, the law and basic fairness.

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Activists helping the flood-ravaged city of Krymsk represent a jarring contrast to the secretive approach to disaster response that long prevailed during the Soviet period.

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The 126-mile border between Turkey and Greece has become the entry point into Europe for the vast majority of illegal crossings, as the tide from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa continues to grow.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt’s new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of preserving the country’s transition to democracy.

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In recent years Spain’s autonomous regions built lavish projects, including a mega-movie studio in Valencia, with tax dollars. Now Valencia must explain how it will recoup taxpayers’ money.

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Замначальника СИЗО, где погиб Магнитский, предстанет перед судом - Росбалт.RU


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Росбалт.RUЗамначальника СИЗО, где погиб Магнитский, предстанет перед судомРосбалт.RUМОСКВА, 9 июля. Главным следственным управлением СК России завершено расследование уголовного дела в отношении бывшего заместителя начальника ФБУ ИЗ-77/2 УФСИН России по городу Москве по лечебно-профилактической работе Дмитрия Кратова. Он обвиняется в совершении преступления, предусмотренного ...Дело экс-сотрудника СИЗО, обвиняемого в смерти С.Магнитского, передано в суд.РБК - RBC.RuБывшего замглавы "Бутырки" будутМосковский комсомолецБывшего замначальника «Бутырки» будут судить за гибель МагнитскогоКоммерсантъИА REGNUM -Полит.ру -ИнтерфаксВсе похожие статьи: 225 »

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