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2 dead after drug plane crashes in northwestern Costa Rica

New San José bus terminal for routes to Nicaragua, NicoyaTravelers departing from Costa Rica’s capital to Nicaragua and to some locations along the Pacific coast, including Jacó, will depart from a new bus terminal starting Monday, August 3

Man 'killed son because he was gay'The L.A. County District Attorney’s Office said in a White House warns Congress: Fight Zika or live to regret itThe White House on Wednesday issued a dire warning to Republicans in Congress: Spend money to prevent the Zika virus from spreading within the United States or regret it later.

Five Rikers corrections officers fired for brutally beating an inmate claim wrongful terminationFive Rikers corrections officers fired for brutally beating a hogtied and shackled inmate claim that they are the true

2 dead after drug plane crashes in northwestern Costa Rica

On Thursday night, National Police, firefighters and members of the Red Cross responded to an aircraft accident in Nosara,” located in the northwestern Guanacaste province about 260 kilometers northwest of the capital, a news release from the ministry stated.

The cause of the accident is under investigation but two people are dead. Also near the crash site, police discovered an abandoned vehicle with a package inside containing more than $45,000 in cash, 50 kilograms of cocaine, an Uzi submachine gun and a shotgun

Five Rikers corrections officers fired for brutally beating an inmate claim wrongful termination

Five Rikers corrections officers fired for brutally beating a hogtied and shackled inmate claim that they are the true victims — of scapegoating and wrongful termination, according to a new Manhattan federal court lawsuit.

Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte announced in January 2015 the dismissals of these five officers, as well as a captain, for the 2012 beating of Robert Hinton.

An administrative law judge in September 2014 also had described the beat down as an example of “brazen misconduct” and recommended the officers' firing.

Father accused of killing son because he was gayShehada Khalil Issa, 69, was charged with using a shotgun in the premeditated murder of his son, Amir Issa, 38. The mother also was found dead inside the family home in the North Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and the son was allegedly shot outside of the house and had multiple gunshot wounds but the authorities haven't provided further details of the circumstances.

Investigators told the Los Angeles Daily News that Issa had initially said he found his dead wife in the bathroom of their house and had shot his son in self-defense after being threatened with a knife.

Later, Issa made "incriminating statements" and was subsequently charged with murder. A detective told the paper: "It was a horrible family tragedy.

New San José bus terminal for routes to Nicaragua, Nicoya

White House warns Congress: Fight Zika or live to regret it

The Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly -- a condition in which a developing fetus' brain fails to fully grow and babies are born with unusually small heads -- as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, which causes the body to attack its own nerves.

The White House issued a dire warning to Republicans in Congress: Spend money to prevent the Zika virus from spreading within the United States or regret it later because the "Congress has completely abdicated their responsibility,”

It’s necessary that Obama administrations of have a program of extensive preventative measures, such as developing vaccines and widespread mosquito control.

Travelers departing from Costa Rica’s capital to Nicaragua and to some locations along the Pacific coast, including Jacó, will depart from a new bus terminal starting Monday, August 3.

The four-floor station — called Terminal 7-10, located between the capital’s 7th Avenue and 10th Street — will house routes from San José to six destinations in four provinces,

including to Paquera on the Nicoya peninsula

Jacó will operate Route 655 to the popular Pacific beach town and Transportes Cóbano will operate Route 631-A to Paquera in Puntarenas

Station administrators estimate some 10,000 to 15,000 people will move through the terminal every day.

Costa Rican man sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder of Argentine singer Facundo CabralCosta Rican citizen Alejandro Jiménez, known as ‘El Palidejo,’ was sentenced Thursday in Guatemala to 50 years in prison for masterminding the 2011 murder of Argentine

troubadour Facundo Cabral in Guatemala City.

The crime against the artist, committed on July 9, 2011, shocked Guatemala..

Jiménez was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of Cabral and another 20 years for

attempted murder against the Nicaraguan businessman Henry Fariñas, who was traveling with Cabral in the same car and was the real target of the attack.

San José to face water rationing for at least six more weeks

Currently more than 150,000 residents of southern San José face daily water rationing up to 12 hours

AyA officials say they’ve been forced to implement rationing because of low levels in the capital’s reserves caused by below-normal rainfall last year and because of broken pipes in recent days.

Water shortages currently affect mostly residents of San Francisco de Dos Ríos, Zapote, Hatillo, San Sebastián, Alajuelita and Desamparados. Some households have faced full days without water in recent days.

4 convicted, 3 acquitted in Jairo Mora murder trialA Limón court delivered guilty verdicts for four of seven defendants in the 2013 killing of sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora and the kidnapping and robbery of four foreign volunteers.

At the time of his death, Mora was working as a sea turtle monitor for the conservation group Widecast, Mora had gained a reputation on the beach as a vocal advocate against turtle egg poaching, earning himself enemies

among the beach’s poaching gangs and despite receiving numerous

threats from poachers, Mora and four foreign female volunteers headed to the beach on the night of May 30, 2013 in hopes of catching a glimpse of a leatherback sea turtle

Héctor Cash, Ernesto Centeno, José Bryan Quesada and Donald Salmón were found guilty.The four men found guilty received sentences ranging from 74 to 90 years for both the crimes on the night of Mora’s murder and another rape and robbery.

Brother of Colombia's former President Álvaro Uribe arrested for homicideA brother of Colombia’s former President Álvaro Uribe has been arrested on suspicion of homicide and links to ultra-conservative militia

A younger brother of the ex-president who is now a senator, Santiago Uribe was arrested in the El Poblado area of Medellín, capital of Antioquia department, a source in the prosecutors

He will be tried on charges of aggravated homicide and conspiracy to commit crimes linked to the paramilitary group “The Twelve Apostles,”

'Invisible' train set to roll in 2018

Architect Kazuyo Sejima has designed a reflective train to "coexist" with changing surroundings. The train will be nearly invisible train and is scheduled to debut in Tokyo in 2018. Sejima was commissioned to design the train in honor of the Seibu Group's 100th anniversary.

Russian warplanes buzz US Navy destroyer in Baltic Sea

Two Russian attack planes flew dangerously close to a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea. The US official said these actions were "unsafe" and "unprofessional," and described them as among the "most aggressive" acts by the Russians in some time and the people said that the Russian jets came within 1,000 yards of the destroyer, flying just 100 feet off the ground and the problem here is that isn't the first time that U.S. Navy destroyer were seen the Russian planes up close, because in April 2014, Russian jets buzzed the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea in a similar provocative fashion

CIA Director Brennan Says World Has More Terrorists, but U.S. SafeCIA Director John Brennan said that in the world are more terrorists than ever before but also said that U.S.A is still safer than it's ever been since 9/11. The CIA director said other countries were less safe because of the threat of ISIS, but reiterated his belief that the U.S. is "safer today than it was 15 years ago."