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Oil prices tumble as Europe and the US shed jobs
Benchmark crude for August delivery fell $2.58, nearly 4 percent, to settle at $66.73 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ...
Jackson memorial tentatively set for Tuesday in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An executive with a concert promoter says Michael Jackson's memorial service will be Tuesday at Staples Center in downtown Los...
Ojeda Ríos hideout could become museum
A bullet-scarred farmhouse where fugitive Los Macheteros leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in 2005 is a historical...
 
 
Fortuño signs fiscal 2010 budget
At a La Fortaleza ceremony, Gov. Luis Fortuño signed into law Wednesday the fiscal 2010 general fund budget, which rests on $7.67 billion in...
Treasury opens door for tax debtors
The island Treasury Department announced Wednesday the start of the Voluntary Reporting Program, which allows taxpayers to approach the agency to pay...
Feds bust stateside I.D. thieves targeting P.R.
Federal authorities have charged 11 people with stealing the names and Social Security numbers of people living in Puerto Rico and using the...
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Tax revenue drop fuels states' financial crisis
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An across-the-board drop in tax collections, coupled with a prolonged recession, has states facing their worst fiscal crisis in...
Actress Anna Karen Morrow dies at 94
ENCINO, Calif. (AP) — Anna Karen Morrow, an actress who had a regular role on the prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place" and also appeared on...
Feds seize Madoff penthouse, wife must leave
NEW YORK – The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday took possession of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse in a move...
GM waits for judge's ruling on sale plan
NEW YORK (AP) — An attorney for General Motors urged a bankruptcy judge Thursday to approve the automaker's sale plan, saying that the only other...
DEA joins Michael Jackson death probe
LOS ANGELES – Jermaine Jackson said he would be "hurt" if toxicology reports show that Michael Jackson abused prescription drugs, but that...
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Serena, Venus reach Wimbledon final — again
WIMBLEDON, England – The purple "W" logo at Wimbledon might as well stand for the siblings who...
French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — An intact Air France Flight 447 slammed belly first into the Atlantic Ocean at a very high speed, a top French investigator...
World stocks fall sharply on US jobs gloom
LONDON (AP) — European and U.S. stock markets fell sharply Thursday after worse than expected U.S. jobs data fueled renewed concerns about when the...
American soldier feared captured in Afghanistan
KABUL (AP) — Insurgents have captured an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan after he walked off post with his three Afghan counterparts,...
Major military operation under way in Afghanistan
NAWA, Afghanistan – Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into...
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CVS set to give Walgreens a run for its money
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Soccer stadium to be built in Country Club
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Pentaq Manufacturing Corp. to expand operations
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Federal government eyes July 23 launch of cash-for-guzzlers program
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  Carlos Romero Barceló
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  Rafael Hernández Colón
During the month of March of this year, unemployment in Puerto Rico rose to 14.7%, reaching the...
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Almost all Puerto Rico households have television sets
More than one-fourth own flatscreen TVs; education, economics dictate consumers’ electronics choices ...
Frank Stipes: Banks feeling the pinch are players in the economy
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Only time will tell
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G-8 finance ministers show optimism
Pace of economic contraction is slowing; market conditions generally improving ...
Tourism Briefs
El Conquistador lands prestigious AAA Four Diamond Award; UPR’s Hotel School turns 25; Virgin’s flight to P.R. takes off ...
Mortgage Bankers Association calls for repeal of notary law, property-tax increase
Local chapter insists both measures diminish chances of local families to acquire or refinance a home by reducing their purchasing power ...
More than 5,000 expected at 2009 MIDA convention
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SAP appoints new general manager for Caribbean region
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