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MANILA, Philippines - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines today, killing a child and triggering a local tsunami alert.

Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said.

THE death toll from the capsizing of a boat trying to take some 70 migrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico has risen to 16, authorities said today.

Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.

A woman who survived a shipwreck rests at the Elupina Cordero Hospital after being rescued from the sea in Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic, Saturday Feb.

Coast Guard rescue crews are searching Saturday for possible Dominican survivors, after their boat reportedly capsized in Samana Bay waters off the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic.

On the evening before the 209th anniversary of the birth of Juan Pablo Duarte, the founder of the Dominican Republic, the court chambers of West New York's Town Hall was filled with young dancers who performed la mangulina dressed in traditional blue, white, and red skirts.

An overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic overturned in the pre-dawn darkness Saturday off the coast of the Caribbean country, killing at least 10 people and leaving dozens missing, officials said.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A fire chief in the eastern Dominican Republic says at least 10 people drowned when a boat overloaded with migrants overturned off the country's coast.

A man who acknowledged having lured another man to a central Pennsylvania street corner where he was shot to death two years ago has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison.

Escape the cooling temperatures with a sail across the Caribbean-but not without spending a day in sizzling South Beach.

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Ignacio E. Sanchez is a lobbyist at DLA Piper, an influential global law firm and a major bundler for the Mitt Romney campaign.

Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts is in the Dominican Republic and unveiled renderings Thursday of a new baseball academy the team is going to build in the baseball rich country.

Kelvin Rosa had a different dream, a prosecutor said Thursday at the Jersey City man's sentencing for the attempted murder of Rodgers, a 14-year veteran.

Emily Kincaid and Brett Hambleton Jr. were united in marriage on Aug. 27, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Sunny days in the Dominican Republic, meals, drinks , activities, entertainment, and even airport transfers -- all at up to $300 less than comparable trips on other sites right now.

Beaverlodge Regional High student Christine Belyan is raising money that will take her to Dominican Republic for 10 days in July to help build houses, medical centres, and schools.

'); } SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista insists he has been tested 16 times for performance-enhancing substances during the past two years and maintains reports to the contrary are false.

Merengue, the national music of the Dominican Republic ferociously driven by percussive provincial rhythms such as pambiche, perico ripiao, el maco, guinchao and palo, is the natural choice for conga master Alex Diaz to blend his native roots with jazz improvisation in Beyond 145th Street .