Kiaraliz Medina is Miss Puerto Rico 2012, and will represent the island at the Miss America Pageant to be held on January 12, 2013 at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas Nevada. The final night of the pageant will be broadcasted live on ABC.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court postponed an appeal Monday by three members of the jailed rock band Pussy Riot after one of them fired her lawyers. Prosecutors criticized the move as a delaying tactic, while one defense lawyer said the women were under tremendous pressure, with the government threatening to take away their children. The two year-sentences given the three performers for hooliganism after they performed a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral have provoked an international outcry that has embarrassed Putin's government.

FORBES ANNOUNCES THE 9th ANNUAL LIST OF THEWORLD’S MOST POWERFUL WOMEN We also wanted to call out some of the Latin women on the list: Dilma Rosseff (No. 3) – President, Brazil Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (No. 16) – President, Argentina Maria das Gracas Silva Foster (No. 20) – CEO, Petrobras, Brazil Jennifer Lopez (No. 38), Entertainer, Entrepreneur, U.S./Puerto Rico    Shakira Mebarak (No. 40) – Entertainer, Philanthropist, Columbia Rosalia Mera (No. 54) – Billionaire Philanthropist, Spain Sofia Vergara (No. 75) – Actress, Entrenpreneur Colombia 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The singing former soldier whose battle injury claims were questioned sang his last song on "America's Got Talent." Timothy Michael Poe crooned George Strait's "The Chair" before he was cut from the NBC talent competition on Tuesday's Las Vegas-set installment. The 35-year-old country singer appeared earlier this month on "America's Got Talent" and said he was injured by a grenade in Afghanistan in 2009, but Minnesota National Guard records didn't support his story.

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February 29, 2012 – Mayor Alvin Brown presented the key to the city to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus on Tuesday. They also met with 40 JROTC cadets from Mandarin High School at City Hall. The visit with the cadets was important for Mayor Brown because the program is one of four local JROTC programs he helped keep running through a public-private partnership which raised more than $200,000 last year. Jacksonville Jaguars Chief Financial Officer Bill Prescott also had a gift for Secretary Mabus—a personalized Jaguars jersey.

Her hips don't lie and neither do her massive album sales. International pop star Shakira was honored as the 2011 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in Las Vegas Wednesday night during a star-studded tribute dinner that saw the Colombian singer share an intimate moment with her father and close the night in a burst of song dedicated to her hometown of Barranquilla.