Dominican Republic News

Eds: APNewsNow. WILL be UPDATED. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic Toronto Blue Jays infielder Edwin Encarnacion is recuperating after he was burned in the face by fireworks while celebrating the new year in his native Dominican Republic.

The spirit of giving hit students and staff at Stewartsboro Elementary this year.

Two young French women jailed in the Dominican Republic for trafficking cocaine were freed on Tuesday having served 18 months of their eight-year sentence, following pressure from President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife.

Bowin and Lindsey Tichenor put their Douglass Hills home up for sale in a raffle and moved in September with their three children to the Dominican Republic on a three-year mission to help improve poor people's access to clean water.

Reginaa TMs Colin Mohr won the bronze medal in the boys 18-and-under doubles event at the world junior racquetball championships held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

A research team has discovered off Nagua, a city in the northeastern Dominican Republic, a Spanish galleon that apparently sank in the area between 1690 and 1700, a media report said.

Officials say an anonymous bomb threat briefly grounded a JetBlue flight that was departing the Dominican Republic for Puerto Rico.

Da Arcy Wright was found disoriented in the resort town of Boca Chica, close to the Caribbean islanda s capital of Santo Domingo, and about 200 kilometres from his new home in Sosua.

A treasure trove of pieces of - incalculable historical value' has been recovered from a Spanish galleon which sank off the north eastern coast of the Dominican Republic at the end of the 17th Century.

Jimmy Carter strides through an impoverished neighborhood of the Dominican town of Dajabon, where cattle mope behind a tangle of barbed wires, where the heat suffocates and the air is thick with mosquitoes.He marches to a bluff overlooking a river, the sun glinting off his "JC" belt buckle, followed by a pack of barefoot children and their ...

Five passengers aboard a WestJet flight from the Dominican Republic were taken to hospital by ambulance last night after apparently suffering from food poisoning.

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University of Evansville mechanical engineering students will visit the Dominican Republic in January to take a look at how a solar water heating system they designed this fall is working.

Expanding Michigan State University's global health outreach, a team of researchers is working in the Dominican Republic to establish a model for HIV/AIDS care that can be exported to other resource-limited countries.

Luperon Yacht Sales in the Dominican Republic presents this lovely Formosa 51 ketch which is the most sought after model of the 51 foot Formosa yachts.

Brazil: Embraer delivered the first two Super Tucano aircraft, of a total of eight, last week, to the government of the Dominican Republic.

September 2007 Libreria Lectorum bookstore in business for Fifty years rode into the sunset.

The family of a murdered 16-year-old boy tried to fight back tears as the young North Providence man accused of killing him smirked before a judge Friday afternoon.

Family and friends are scouring the Dominican Republic for a 46-year-old Hamilton man who has been missing for more than a week.

JetBlue still needs approval from regulators in the Dominican Republic to begin service to Punta Cana.