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The U.S. Navy on Friday began testing two new aerial tools, borrowed from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, that officials say will make it easier to detect, track and videotape drug smugglers in action. (AP Photo/Ben Fox)

U.S. to turn to drones to stop drug smugglers in the Caribbean

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ABOARD THE HIGH SPEED VESSEL SWIFT (AP) — Drug smugglers who race across the Caribbean in speedboats will typically jettison their cargo when spotted by … Read More

Controversy erupted in Maryland after a Puerto Rican teen refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance to bring awareness to the status of Puerto Rico. (Courtesy Enidris Rodriguez)

Teen refuses to stand for pledge of allegiance because “situation in Puerto Rico is undemocratic”

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Enidris Siurano Rodriguez,15, has not stood for the pledge of allegiance at school since she was in 7th grade to bring awareness to what she believes is an … Read More

A doctor walks through a hallway at the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Doctors flee Puerto Rico for US mainland

By Danica Coto, Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Going to the doctor in Puerto Rico has for years often meant getting in line. Now, it might mean getting on a plane. A medical … Read More

Keevin Minami, with the State Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Quarantine Station holds the coqui frog he caught in Manoa Valley. Minami says this male frog is not quite fully grown.

Puerto Rico’s beloved coqui frog is disappearing

By Ben Fox and Ezequiel Abiu, Associated Press

PATILLAS, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally … Read More

Marc Anthony and 21-year-old girlfriend Chloe Green recently enjoyed a getaway in Puerto Rico

[PHOTOS] Marc Anthony, 21-year-old girlfriend Chloe Green going strong

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Marc Anthony attended the wedding of singer Duane McLaughlin and Amber Ridinger over the weekend and it looks like the salsa star had his 21-year-old … Read More

Students in Puerto Rico will no longer have to pay U.S. college entrance exam fees.

Puerto Rico eliminates U.S. college entrance exam fees

By Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor says public school students will no longer have to pay to take the standardized entrance exams … Read More

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, right, speaks as Maria Teresa Szendrey holds Sotomayor's new book at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Sotomayor draws hundreds in Puerto Rico for book tour

By Danica Coto, Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Puerto Rico to present her new memoir on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of fans in … Read More

Devin Velez talks about his return home after being eliminated from "American Idol."

Devin Velez talks life after “American Idol”

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Devin Velez -- the Chicago singer dubbed the “Spanish Ken doll” by judge Nicki Minaj – may have been a fan favorite but was sent home on Thursday’s … Read More

Jennifer Lopez and Chris Brown have been spotted looking cozy - but it's not what you think.

The real reason why Jennifer Lopez and Chris Brown have hooked up

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Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you: that’s a real picture of Jennifer Lopez cuddled up to Chris Brown. The Puerto Rican superstar and the controversial … Read More

Puerto Rico ban of adoptions by gay parents robs children of having a loving home.

Opinion: Allowing gay adoption in Puerto Rico is not only right, it is inevitable

By Julio Ricardo Varela

It is 2013 and the island-colony-territory of Puerto Rico is still struggling to reconcile its Catholic past with a more secular future. Such is the case … Read More