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A government of Puerto Rico and Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Recovery Center opened Sunday Nov. 5 in Aguadilla. DRCs serve homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained damage as a result of Hurricane Maria.
A former Puerto Rico official who has been mentioned in connection with a controversial contract to restore electricity to the bankrupt U.S. territory after Hurricane Maria has denied having any role in securing it. In papers filed on Friday in federal court in San Juan, Elias Sanchez, a friend and one-time adviser to Governor Ricardo Rossello, said under penalty of perjury that he "never had any kind of relationship" with contractor Whitefish Energy or its principals.
A second federal contract with a company hired to rebuild Puerto Rico's all but collapsed power grid is coming under scrutiny, drawing the attention of federal investigators and even members of Congress even as most of the hurricane-ravaged island remains without power. The news of a second faulty contract is also raising questions about the contracting process for the island's government-owned power company, the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority .
Boston's approach is one model for how big cities can accommodate families after disasters, with centralized support via welcome centers that offer everything from registering for school to filing paperwork with FEMA. After arriving from Puerto Rico in late October, Alicia Santiago and Lexian Cordava and Paulette Alvarez sign up for housing and school enrollment at Sociedad Latina on November 2, 2017 in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
The town of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, pictured here on Oct. 27, suffered severe damage during Hurricane Maria. One month after the storm devastated Puerto Rico, most residents are still without power as the island struggles to get back on its feet.
The U.S. House of Representatives' energy committee on Wednesday said it wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency to explain how it is overseeing contracts for rebuilding Puerto Rico's power grid after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria. In a letter to FEMA, the committee raised questions about contracts between Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority and two companies: Whitefish Energy Holdings and Cobra Acquisitions LLC, a subsidiary of Mammoth Energy Services Inc. The committee said "federal leadership and strategic coordination" is needed to restore power, and outlined a series of concerns about the role played so far by FEMA.
Two women from Hawaii who were rescued after being lost at sea defended their account of the ordeal, insisting that a storm was whipping up 30-foot waves and near hurricane-force winds on the night they set sail, despite records that show no severe weather in the area at the time. The Coast Guard is reviewing records from the days after Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava put to sea in a 50-foot sailboat, but NASA satellite images for the days around their departure show no organized storms in the region where they planned to travel.
Spain's stat... . A por Spain union supporter speaks with a man at the Catalan government's Generalitat building surroundings in Barcelona, Spain, Monday Oct. 30, 2017.
Facebook says a Russian internet agency posted more than 80,000 pieces of content during and after the 2016 election, and ... Two Hawaii women who say they were lost at sea never activated their emergency beacon, the U.S. Coast Guard said, adding to a growing list of inconsistences that cast doubt on this harrowing tale of survival. Two Hawaii women who say they were lost at sea never activated their emergency beacon, the U.S. Coast Guard said, adding to a growing list of inconsistences that cast doubt on this harrowing tale of survival.
History >> may not repeat, but it often echoes, and possibly predicts. I mentioned the Teapot Dome scandal in my normalcy musings a few days ago.-The principle activity in the Teapot Dome scandal was selling public land in a secret, no-public-bid deal among among 3 crooks.
Times Puerto Rican evacuee Shamira Melendez, 4, watches "Finding Dory" on a tablet while her mom Ivana Reyes, 22, talks to representatives from local agencies while her son Jezel Garcia, 1, snoozes in his stroller at the Hispanic Outreach Center Thursday 11/2/2017. - Pinellas County government hosted a bilingual panel Thursday featuring community organizations providing help for local Hurricane Maria evacuees from Puerto Rico.
A new recovery program in Puerto Rico aimed at getting people back in their homes as quickly as possible after Hurricane Maria will be modeled after one used by Louisiana following the historic flooding in 2016, according to WBRZ , a Baton Rouge television station. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello formerly launched Puerto Rico's version of Louisiana's Shelter at Home program Monday while Gov. John Bel Edwards and First Lady Donna Edwards were visiting the island.
Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told to Surrender - WASHINGTON - Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities Monday morning, the first charges in a special counsel investigation, according to a person involved in the case. Manafort to turn himself in to Mueller, source says - Source: Manafort to turn himself in to Mueller - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Manafort is the first person in Trump's orbit charged in connection with the special counsel investigation - Washington Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort How the Russia Investigation Entangled a Manafort Protg - Nearly everywhere Paul Manafort went, it seemed, Rick Gates followed, his protg and junior partner.
Workers seek to repair distribution lines damaged by Hurricane Maria in the Cantera community of San Juan, Puerto Rico. CREDIT: AP Photo/Carlos Giusti Puerto Rico's decision to cancel its contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, a small Montana-based company with ties to the Trump administration, has thrown the island's electricity restoration efforts into disarray.
FILE - In this May 14, 2010, file photo, American Indian activist Dennis Banks, left, speaks to reporters on Lake Bemidji, during an American Indian treaty rights protest in Bemidji, Minn. The family of Banks says he died ... .
Britain's Cabinet Office will invest... The wife of a seriously wounded soldier is expected to take the stand as the sentencing hearing for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl resumes.
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona Sunday to call for their region to remain ... . TV crews stand in front of the Palau Generalitat as they wait for the arrival of the Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont, in Barcelona, Spain, early Monday Oct. 30, 2017.
The head of Puerto Rico's power company said Sunday the agency is cancelling its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings amid scrutiny of the tiny Montana company's role in restoring the island's power system. The announcement by Ricardo Ramos came hours after Gov. Ricardo Rossello urged the utility to scrap the deal for Whitefish's help in rebuilding the electrical system from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Maria.