Jezreel de Jesús led Ponce with 24 points in the Leones’ victory over Aguada on Sunday night. Tyson has a big night to lead Gigantes By THE STAR STAFF The Leones of Ponce outlasted the visiting Santeros of Aguada in a back-and-forth contest in one of three Superior National Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) league games on Sunday night. The Gigantes of Carolina and the Piratas of Quebradillas were the evening’s other winners. At Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium in Po

A view of La Rada Hotel on the Condado Lagoon, where for decades Larry Sweeney’s Scotch ‘n Sirloin, generally known to its local patrons as simply “Sweeney’s,” served as a versatile gathering place that helped define Condado as the San Juan district came into its own. (Wikimedia Commons) Owner of renowned Scotch ’n Sirloin dies at 86 By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR Tributes of notes and flowers, some faded from the sun, have accumulated on the Condado site where the Sc

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, in the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 5, 2025. Sheinbaum is under pressure to end one of her country’s most painful tragedies: the disappearance of more than 133,000 people. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times) By PAULINA VILLEGAS Mexico was shocked last year when volunteer search teams discovered an abandoned ranch filled with piles of shoes— too many to be left behind by the owners. To many observers, it was an unmistakable si

By JIN YU YOUNG The U.S. military said it attacked another boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing three people and raising the death toll to at least 185 in the campaign against people the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs at sea. The strike was ordered by Gen. Francis Donovan of the Marine Corps, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the command said on social media. An accomp