SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hope had come in with a song for La Perla, a seaside slum that had long been notorious as a violent enclave that served as Puerto Rico’s biggest distribution point for ...

Police say three tourists were stabbed in Puerto Rico after someone told them to stop filming in a renowned seaside community known as La Perla that is popular with visitors.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ... The community was once a dangerous slum considered the island's biggest distribution point for heroin, but crime has dropped since a raid by federal agents in 2011 .

A total of 52 major U.S. firms have plants in Puerto Rico (see map). Last year alone, 160 new factories opened their doors, raising the island’s total of “Bootstrap” plants to 1,030.

Puerto Rican singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee chose the slum as a backdrop for their video, which YouTube said attracted a record 3 billion views, and tourists began to pour in, greeted by ...

Carlos Sanchez Brown, 39, Wallace Florence, 37, and Jackson Tremayne, 38, were stabbed in Puerto Rico's historic Old San Juan neighborhood after being warned to stop filming the famous La Perla ...

Three U.S. tourists were stabbed in Puerto Rico early Monday after police said someone told them to stop recording in a renowned seaside community known as La Perla that is popular with visitors.