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DEA agents in Puerto Rico claim discrimination
Ten Puerto Rican agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration have filed suit against their employer, claiming they receive less pay and more dangerous assignments than agents hired in the U.S. and sent to the island.Attorney Bamily Lopez Ortiz says the DEA may owe some agents more than $100,000.She says agents hired in the U.S. who come to Puerto Rico receive a bonus for working in a so-called

Puerto Rico burial for 7-year-old slain in Georgia
The mother of a slain 7-year-old girl says she is overwhelmed by the hundreds of people who have turned out for the burial of her daughter in the girl's hometown in southern Puerto Rico.

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US report dismisses cancer-Navy link on Vieques

A U.S. agency on Thursday accepted local claims that there is a higher incidence of cancer and other health ills on Vieques island compared with neighboring Puerto Rico, but said there is no proof

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Puerto Rico office shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 hurt

A man opened fire inside an unemployment office in a central Puerto Rican town on Friday, killing one person and wounding another in what an official said appeared to be targeted attack and not a

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Probation in needle attack at Puerto Rico school
A 14-year-old girl who stabbed about three dozen classmates with a hypodermic needle at her Puerto Rico school has been sentenced to two years of probation.

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Fine and charge in Puerto Rico price-fixing case

The U.S. Justice Department expanded an investigatioin into Puerto Rican shipping Thursday, announcing a $14.2 million fine for a Florida-based company and a criminal charge against its former

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