Dr. Miriam Padilla, one of about 12,000 or so Utahns who call themselves Puerto Rican, knows Utah is pretty distant, in many ways, from the U.S. territory in the Caribbean. So she learned to sing and dance what's called Bomba.
The front page of the Deseret News on March 1, 1954. Puerto Rican nationalists fired shots inside the gallery of Congress, wounding five U.S. representatives. The other big news of the day was an atomic bomb test in the Pacific Ocean.
NYC Vital Records used data from the Census Bureau to take a look at how the standard age to get married is evolving across the U.S.
A tourism boon in Puerto Rico has local hotspots facing challenges of cultural dilution and environmental strain.