VIEQUES, Puerto Rico -- Helicopters hovered overhead and U.S. warships loomed offshore Vieques Island amid reports that federal agents were planning to evict protesters from a contested U.S. Navy bombing range. Tensions increased...

...that demonstrators had blocked for more than a year. Protesters at several sites within the bomb-strewn range on Vieques island were taken away within 40 minutes, many in plastic handcuffs. Agents in helicopters moved onto about a dozen other...

...and spending on environmental pollution, highways and the Puerto Rico National Guard. --Eleven policemen on Vieques Island were fired for corruption and convicted in 1999, with their leader sentenced to 24 years in jail. Gov. Pedro Rossello...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Anti-Navy protests brought near-anarchy to Vieques island, a U.S. federal judge said in sentencing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others to 30 days in jail for breaking into a bombing...

...going to win peace for Vieques,'' Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois told protesters in the bomb-littered range on Vieques island at dawn today. Some 50 protesters on several campsites in the range and dozens more in front of its main gate say...

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The U.S. Navy resumed military exercises at its prized range on Vieques island Friday, dropping inert 500-pound bombs in defiance of protesters who reported cutting through fences and breaching the zone...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's plan to end Navy bombing exercises on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island is generating fierce opposition from conservative Republicans, who say Congress can block the proposal. The lives of military...

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico -- Protesters on Vieques island pledged a new round of demonstrations to thwart U.S. Navy bombing exercises, saying they will not be satisfied until the military...