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Phoenix Industries, a Las Vegas, Nevada company that manufactures waste tire recycling plants and asphalt rubber blending equipment, has recently completed the first Asphalt Rubber paving project in the country of Puerto Rico.

Patheon, a global provider of drug development and manufacturing services to the international pharmaceutical industry announced today its plan to consolidate its Puerto Rico operations into its manufacturing site located in Manati, and ultimately close or sell its plant in Caguas.

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Thousands of people paid tribute to Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado at vigils held across the country yesterday.

Puerto Rico is joining a growing list of places in the U.S. opposed to becoming the future home of any Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

Police say the body of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, 19, was decapitated, dismembered and partially burned.

The suspect in the slaying of a gay teenager who was decapitated and dismembered in Puerto Rico was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, officials said.

The suspect in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico will be charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and four other counts, the prosecutor in the case told CNN.

A suspect has been arrested in the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found Friday decapitated, dismembered and partially burned, police said Tuesday.

Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals.

Keeping investors interested in the Commonwealth's $47 billion of debt may depend on the Republican governor's plan to cut a $3.2 billion budget deficit, revive an economy that shrank 5.5 percent in the last fiscal year and rescue a credit rating one level from high-risk, high-yield junk.

Puerto Ricans need to be allowed to vote on changing their political status. The status quo is untenable.

The mass layoffs, along with some 12,000 planned for early next year, are casting workers out into an economy starved for jobs.

Just in case you were wondering where some of your elected officials were posturing post-election, many are heading to Puerto Rico today for the annual Somos conference.

Puerto Rico halts government layoffs SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Almost half of the 15,000 government employees scheduled to be laid off this week because of a budget deficit will keep their jobs until next year, Puerto Rican officials said Tuesday.

Governor John deJongh on Tuesday expressed his appreciation and commended the members of the US Virgin Islands National Guard who assisted in a recent fuel depot fire in Puerto Rico.

The island territory has been able to add a high number of new jobs per capita. But the stimulus comes at a time of political struggle between public and private labor in Puerto Rico.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico's governor on Friday canceled the designation of a portion of the island's northeastern coastline as a nature reserve, opening the door to large-scale development along a white-sand beach where proposals for hotel resorts have sparked bitter protests.

A raging blaze at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico lit up the night sky Friday near San Juan as firefighters battled to keep it from spreading further.

At least 15 of the 40 tanks at the Caribbean Petroleum Corp. facility in the municipality of Catano were still burning, Gov.