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Monthly Archives: July, 2013

Quebec runaway train spotlights Wild West-era brake failures

Rail safety consultants say securing two types of brakes, air and hand, would have averted the July 6 wreck in Quebec that killed as many as 50 people.

‘Legally dead’ man wins local election in Mexico

Democratic Revolutionary Party officials said they were not aware that their candidate was legally dead.

Toshi-Aline Seeger, wife of folk giant, dies at 91

Toshi Seeger, who died Tuesday at 91, would spend years raising three children in a log cabin without electricity or running water, often by herself while her husband, Pete, taught banjo or played gigs at faraway schools for months at a time.

A city girl from the Netherlands packs up and moves to the Guatemalan jungle

“Life’s never boring,” says 43-year-old Aska Brzezniakiewicz.

A Tica artist abroad

Designer Ingrid Neurohr on traveling and working outside of Costa Rica.

Leader of municipal Diversity Office’s contract not renewed, blames ‘homophobia’

The head of Goicoechea's Diversity Office, Rodrigo Campos, said that the office’s two-month terms are designed to limit the effectiveness of the position and criticized the municipality for not properly funding it.

Holy marlin!

These monsters are biting regularly off the coast of Punta Burica.

Costa Rica’s Agriculture and Livestock Ministry uses army of insects to fight pest

Biological controllers were released in the northwestern and southwestern regions of the country.

Fuel prices could drop in August

Little variation in international prices of oil could benefit Costa Rican drivers.

Arizona man beaten and shot in Puntarenas home invasion

After surviving the assault, Gary Lee said he has no intention of returning to Costa Rica.

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