Topic: Puerto Rico

Drug recall expands: More Tylenol, Benadryl recalled due to moldy smell

Drug recall: Five lots of Tylenol and Benadryl have been added to an expanding recall, after customers have complained of a moldy odor emanating from the pills.
06/17/2010 03:55 pm

Global News Blog Pau Gasol, Lakers-Celtics, and the outsourcing of the NBA Finals

Game 3 of the Lakers-Celtics NBA Finals continues tonight. While the Celtics have no international players, the Lakers have three, including Spaniard Pau Gasol. Could that be decisive?
06/08/2010 08:34 pm

Chile police hunt Dutchman Joran van der Sloot in Peru killing

Authorities were searching the country's dry, sparsely populated northern provinces for Joran van der Sloot.
06/03/2010 01:08 pm

The New Economy Top 8 graduation gifts

What to get the graduate who has everything? Here are our Top 8 graduation gifts.
06/01/2010 05:18 pm

Crater photos show off dynamic Martian winds

Photos indicated the direction and recentness of wind on Mars.
05/20/2010 04:38 pm

Space enthusiasts gather to watch final launch of space shuttle Atlantis

Organized via Twitter, some 150 enthusiasts gathered at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to witness the final planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.
05/14/2010 03:03 pm

Searching for unclaimed money? It's easier than it used to be.

Americans could be owed $33 billion in unclaimed money, such as forgotten bank accounts. The money per account is usually small, but the search process has become easier with the Internet.
05/13/2010 05:36 pm

The Daily Reckoning Bank failures hit Puerto Rico hard

Three bank failures took place last week in Puerto Rico, affecting about a quarter of the assets of the island's 10 banks.
05/06/2010 01:00 am

The New Economy Tylenol recall 2010: Another setback for Johnson and Johnson unit

In the second Tylenol recall of 2010, an arm of Johnson and Johnson has to refund buyers of over-the-counter drugs because of factory problems.
05/03/2010 06:35 pm

Linda Ronstadt joins group filing suit against Arizona law

Singer Linda Ronstadt has joined a group filing a suit against the Arizona law on immigration. She is one of several entertainers who have voiced their opposition to the new state law.
04/30/2010 01:20 pm

Blackout in Precinct Puerto Rico

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04/30/2010 10:32 am

A 51st state? Congress takes up Puerto Rico statehood

A bill in the House of Representatives would give Puerto Rico's 4 million residents a vote on whether they want to transition to statehood or independence.
04/29/2010 04:53 pm

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New life for Pontiac Silverdome: First up, monster trucks

The Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan, sold in November for about one percent of its 1975 construction cost, will reopen its doors with a monster truck event and a soccer tournament in April.
03/12/2010 05:09 pm

Donald Marron Google’s public data: Much improved

Google has recently improved its presentation of public data.
03/11/2010 04:07 pm

Illinois earthquake: How bad is a 3.8 magnitude?

This morning's Illinois earthquake registered a 3.8 on the Richter Scale. How does that stack up against past US tremors?
02/10/2010 04:40 pm

Why NASA picked stormy Florida

Weather thwarts shuttle launches. But important factors favor this state.
02/04/2010 10:07 am

Haiti Earthquake Diary Haiti earthquake diary: The lives within the tent cities

There is an organized world within the tent cities that have cropped up all over Port-au-Prince since the Jan. 12 earthquake. I meet a young woman who gave birth the day of the earthquake and a boy who races a toy car he made from trash.
01/25/2010 03:17 pm

Haiti earthquake: Why the Caribbean is a mini ring of fire

The forces that led to the Haiti earthquake are a reminder that the idyllic Caribbean is one of the more geologically active spots on earth, and that a powerful earthquake could strike the region again.
01/21/2010 03:31 pm

The New Economy With Tylenol recall 2010, a corporate icon stumbles

Johnson & Johnson burnished its image with a gutsy Tylenol recall in 1982. But its 2010 recall was long overdue, an FDA report charges.
01/15/2010 05:06 pm

The geology underlying the devastating Haiti earthquake

The same earthquake fault that lies under Haiti also runs through the Dominican Republic. Geologists warn that the Haiti quake – at the Enriquilla-Plantain Garden Fault – may have added strain elsewhere and more quakes are possible.
01/13/2010 02:29 pm

7.0 earthquake rocks Haiti

Relief agencies have put out calls for donations, and are preparing teams to go to Haiti in the wake of Tuesday's quake. A hospital, the National Palace, and other buildings in Haiti's capital were damaged in the biggest earthquake to hit the island in 200 years.
01/12/2010 06:55 pm

Global News Blog Argentina's 'Elvis' Sandro has left the casa

The 'Elvis' of Argentina, singer and movie icon Sandro (Roberto Sanchez), died Monday. Tens of thousands turned out in Buenos Aires to remember the Latin American star credited with cracking the US pop music scene.
01/07/2010 10:06 am

American Airlines crash in Jamaica: no serious injuries

An American Airlines flight 331 from Miami with more than 150 aboard overshot a runway in Jamiaca. Some 44 people were taken to nearby hospitals but American Airlines said only two were admitted to the hospital, and nobody suffered life-threatening injuries.
12/23/2009 08:17 am

Coming soon: a Christmas tree that won't shed its needles

Not everyone agrees on what makes a perfect Christmas tree, but one that doesn't shed its needles would be high on most lists.
12/22/2009 03:14 pm