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Crime, violence cost Honduras 10 percent of GDP
March 28, 2012 8:16 PM
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A new World Bank report says crime and violence has cost Honduras the equivalent of 10 percent of the country's GDP annually. Honduras had the highest homicide rate in the world in 2010, with 6,200 killings, or 82.1 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. World Bank representative Giuseppe... more » -
Fire in Honduras prison kills more than 250
February 15, 2012 8:29 AM
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A forensic official in Honduras says a fire that swept through a prison has killed at least 272 inmates. Lucy Marder, chief of forensic medicine for the prosecutors' office, gave the death count to reporters in a radio news conference early Wednesday. The head of the... more » -
Tropical Storm moving erratically in the Caribbean
October 22, 2010 8:36 AM
MIAMI (AP) -Forecasters say Tropical Storm Richard has been moving erratically in the Caribbean but is expected to begin moving slowly west. Richard's maximum sustained winds Friday are near 40 mph. But additional strengthening is forecast for the 17th named storm of the Atlantic season and it could become... more » -
Hurricane Paula forms off Honduras
October 12, 2010 8:25 AM
The storm called Paula has become a hurricane off the coast of Honduras and is on its way to brush Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Paula has maximum sustained winds near 75 mph and is moving northwest at 10 mph. Honduran emergency officials... more » -
Van smuggling illegal aliens stopped in Pueblo County
October 8, 2010 2:17 PM
A van carrying ten people, all illegal aliens, was stopped just south of Pueblo Tuesday afternoon. All were taken into custody. Two men, Santos Miranda-Mendoza and Walter Zuniga-Sosa, admitted that they were paid to smuggle the others from Houston to Los Angeles, according to an arrest affidavit. They've each... more » -
Tropical Storm Agatha kills 150
June 1, 2010 8:13 AM
Dozens of people are still missing in Central America where flooding and landslides from the season's first tropical storm have killed at least 150. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated just in hardest-hit Guatemala, which lists at least 123 dead and 90 missing in the wake of Tropical... more »
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