Dominican Republic

Former Major League Baseball pitcher and World Series champion Octavio Dotel was reportedly pulled from the rubble of a collapsed Dominican nightclub on Tuesday.

A missing University of Pittsburgh college student’s hometown sheriff has named a person of interest in the case five days into a search for the young woman.

Twenty-year-old University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki who went missing on Thursday while vacationing in the Dominican Republic on spring break possibly died by drowning, authorities say.

Officials have launched an extensive search for a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing on Thursday in the Dominican Republic.

A senior State Department official confirmed that the State Department has granted foreign spending freeze waivers for Haiti.

The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

ICE scooped up a convicted murderer who was paroled by authorities in Massachusetts after serving only 17 years of a life sentence.

The Dominican Republic plans to implement an “immediate” program to deport as many as 10,000 migrants per week, mostly Haitians.

U.S. authorities seized a $13 million luxury plane used by Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has officially been charged with sexual abuse in the Dominican Republic.

An illegal alien, wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic, has been found living in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts.

Philadelphia’s population has been shrinking for years, but one segment has been soaring, with numbers showing that immigrants are growing.

An illegal alien accused of trafficking fentanyl in Massachusetts is also wanted for murder in his native Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic said the United Nations had not consulted it to create a “humanitarian air bridge” to Haiti.

The Dominican Republic’s Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez said on Wednesday that his country will continue to deport illegal Haitian migrants, rejecting a United Nations request that urged the country to stop “forced deportations” of Haitian citizens.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resurfaced in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, having disappeared from public view after a meeting in Kenya.

Haiti’s neighbors scrambled to increase patrols, build border fences, and recall their diplomatic missions as violence escalated on Monday.

Voters in New York oppose President Joe Biden’s migration, a top Latino talk show host told New York Mayor Eric Adams.

An illegal alien, accused of murder, is among the roughly 2.2 million illegal aliens released into the United States under the watch of President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

A 42-year-old woman aboard Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas was rescued after spending more than 45 minutes in the water.

A Dominican professional basketball player named Óscar Cabrera Adames has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 28, according to reports.

A child from New York City was fatally shot when he and his family arrived in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday for spring break.

The Dominican Republic is building a 13-foot-high border wall in the hopes of ending waves of illegal immigration from Haiti — set to be the second-longest border wall in the Americas. 

Dominican Republic Environment Minister Orlando Jorge Mera was shot and killed in his government office on Monday by a man who knew Mera since childhood, the local Listín Diario newspaper reported Tuesday.

Citing illegal immigration and drugs and weapons smuggling, the Dominican Republic is building a wall on its border with Haiti.

A mafia fugitive was arrested in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after Italian police discovered his YouTube cooking show.

Two women who worked together at a bar in Connecticut recently found out they are actually biological sisters.

The shooter at a New York City, New York, Christmas concert was an immigrant to the United States from the Dominican Republic who avoided deportation despite an extensive criminal record, officials confirm.

Border Patrol agents in Puerto Rico and local police intercepts a large load of cocaine and arrested four illegal aliens from the Dominican Republic. The failed smuggling attempt resulted in the seizure of nearly $15 million worth of cocaine.

The global coronavirus pandemic originating in China is leading conservative Latin American leaders to question key tenets of the region’s foreign policy.

Health officials in the Dominican Republic on Sunday reported the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the tourist-rich Caribbean, while British cruise ship passengers who had been trapped at sea due to virus fears were finally set to come home.

Dominican armed forces hurled tear gas canisters at protesters congregated before Santo Domingo’s Central Electoral Board (JCE) on Tuesday, alarming a largely peaceful crowd united to demand free and fair elections after the JCE abruptly canceled the results of this weekend’s national polls.

Three illegal aliens are among six accused drug dealers who were freed from jail by New York City officials after their arrests for allegedly operating a heroin-fentanyl packaging ring out of a Bronx apartment. 

White Sox reliever Kelvin Herrera stands accused of striking a man at a cockfight in the Dominican Republic.

Six suspects were taken into custody over the weekend after an American teacher was found dead inside her home in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, last week.

An American teacher was found strangled to death inside her apartment in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Tuesday.