Costa Rica Offers Best Wishes For Pope Benedicto XVI
Tuesday morning, most Costa Ricans were glued to their television sets watching the news coming in from the Vatican of the new Pope

Sala III Has New Magistrate. Finally!
While most Costa Ricans were focusing their attention to Rome, there was white smoke as well coming from the Legislative Assembly, that after a long and hardous fight, the 33 votes necessary to appoint Magda Pereira Villalobos as Magistrate of the Sala Tercera were obtained.

Fire Started by a Cigarette Claims Three Lives
Police in Guanacaste are theorizing that a lit cigarette may have been the cause of a fire that claimed the lives of three people - the entire family - in the small town of Filadelfia on Tuesday.

Youths Sexually Active Between 12 and 14 Years of Age, Study Shows
A report in today's edition of the Spanish language newspaper Al Día says that officials and doctors of the Ministerio de Educación Publica (MEP) are concerned and alarmed that many students between the ages of 12 and 14 are active sexually.

Costa Rica-Based Scam Results in US Tax Fraud Charges
A Polson, Montana, woman charged in federal court in Missoula with filing false tax returns was one of hundreds who allegedly took part in a multinational scheme to evade U.S. taxes.

There Will Be No Rationing, ICE's President Says
The president of the Instituto Costarricense de Elcetricidad (ICE), Pablo Cob, yesterday denied "emphatically" that the country is facing a shortage of electrical energy.