5+ hour, 16+ min ago   (1374+ words) In the summer of 2001, a month or two before everything changed, Robin Ventura played golf with a man named Chris Quackenbush. Soon after, Quackenbush went to a game to see his friend Bobby Valentine, the New York Mets’ manager. Ventura…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago   (423+ words) The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has ruled that taxpayers are not required to exhaust municipal administrative remedies before going to court when what they are contesting is a municipality’s authority to impose a tax, rather than the amount owed. The…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago   (430+ words) By THE STAR STAFFSan Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced on Sunday the start of construction work to revitalize Ponce de León Avenue in Río Piedras. The project represents a $14.1 million investment, with some 75% of the funding coming from the…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (242+ words) Justice Secretary Lourdes Gómez Torres announced on Wednesday that a 67-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly causing the death of 36-year-old nurse Jennifer Marie Torres Castro -- who died on June 24 in Caguas -- through mechanical asphyxiation and…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (820+ words) New Canadian tariffs targeting roughly $20 billion in U.S. imports officially snapped into place on Tuesday, the latest escalation in an increasingly costly trade war that has ensnarled two longtime allies. The duties apply to a variety of U.S. goods, including clothing, cheese,…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (223+ words) The federal probe into the now-cancelled Power Expectations temporary energy production contract is focusing on whether intermediaries, such as consultants, broke the law, according to sources, which did not pinpoint a specific target in the probe. The Financial Oversight and…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (330+ words) The Puerto Rico Certified Public Accountants Association (CCPA by its initials in Spanish) approved two major policy resolutions during its annual convention this past weekend, urging the government to adopt federal-style “Trump Accounts” locally and to pursue an overhaul of…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (328+ words) Power Expectations LLC is calling for a formal investigation into what it describes as a pattern of improper conduct, conflicts of interest, and potential corporate espionage involving attorney Javier Vázquez Morales, a partner at O’Neill & Borges and legal adviser to…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (451+ words) As part of municipal initiatives aimed at community and sports development, the fifth edition of the “Shaping Future Baseball Players” (“Formando Peloteros del Futuro”) sports clinic was held in Arecibo last week. The latest edition of the clinic was dedicated…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (290+ words) Puerto Rico absorbed one of its steepest tariff shocks in more than a decade last year, as federal trade policies under President Donald Trump dramatically reshaped the cost of importing goods into the island, according to a report from Estudios…...