News Headlines for Bajadero, Puerto Rico

Corpse kept upright for 3-day wake in Puerto Rico (China Daily)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing -- even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.

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Taking the kids to Puerto Rico (Miami Herald)
We'd never given San Juan, Puerto Rico, a second thought as a ''bring the kids'' vacation destination. To us, it was just a portal to more exotic island destinations.

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Judge orders English ballot printed in Puerto Rico (Las Cruces Sun-News)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections.

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Drug raids in Puerto Rico target rural areas (New York Daily News)
Federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring Monday in coordinated raids in small-town Puerto Rico, where some housing projects are under siege by gangsters.

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Physical and sexual abuse linked to asthma in Puerto Rican kids (EurekAlert!)
( American Thoracic Society ) Children who are physically or sexually abused are more than twice as likely to have asthma as their peers, according to a recent study of urban children in Puerto Rico. In fact, physical and sexual abuse was second only to maternal asthma in all the risk factors tested, including paternal asthma and indicators of socioeconomic status.

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Drug Raids in Puerto Rico Target Rural Areas (Officer.com)
Federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring Monday in coordinated raids in small-town Puerto Rico.

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Eight States, Puerto Rico Will Not Receive CDC Funding For Advanced HIV Monitoring System (Medical News Today)
CDC on Friday announced that it will no longer fund an advanced HIV/AIDS monitoring system in eight states and Puerto Rico, the New York Times reports. The eight states are Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

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Drug raids in Puerto Rico target rural areas (Las Vegas Sun)
Mon, Aug 25, 2008 (6:54 p.m.) Federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring Monday in coordinated raids in small-town Puerto Rico, where some housing projects are under siege by gangsters.

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CDC to no longer fund advanced HIV/AIDS monitoring system in eight states and Puerto Rico (News-Medical-Net)
CDC on Friday announced that it will no longer fund an advanced HIV/AIDS monitoring system in eight states and Puerto Rico, the New York Times reports.

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OPM proposes COLA changes for feds in Alaska, Puerto Rico (Federal Times)
Federal employees in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska, would see a cut in their cost-of-living allowance while feds in Puerto Rico would see an increase under a new proposal by the Office of Personnel Management.

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