The headaches began just after Hermogenes Marrero arrived on Vieques, the small Puerto Rican island where the young U.S. Marine guarded stores of Cold War-era chemical weapons. The retired sergeant, now 57 and terminally ill with cancer and other ailments, blames exposure to toxins released while he was stationed there from 1970 to 1972. By coming forward to support ...

Police said an eastern Pennsylvania man stopped for suspected drunken driving used the identity of his brother, who was away on his honeymoon. When 42-year-old Bernard Marrero, of Reading, returned from his honeymoon last month, he was arrested for DUI. Marrero and his ...

A man dressed in green hospital scrubs slipped past security at the island's largest medical center early Thursday and killed a patient recovering from a previous shooting, police said. Jose Marrero Trinidad, 23, was shot in the head as he slept, and a friend sleeping on the floor was wounded in the shoulder. Two other patients in the room ...