Greater Hartford’s Little Miss Puerto Rico also received a sash and will be in the parade. “I’m most excited about I get to ride and wave my flag, do everything,” the 7-year-old Lyla-Grace ...

Puerto Rico is a small Caribbean island with a solid cultural identity, its own Olympic representation, national anthem and a flag that its ... is not part of, the United States.” ...

The same referendum procedure last occurred in the 1950s, when the people of Alaska and Hawaii were asked whether they wanted to become US states. Until 1898, Spain ruled Puerto Rico ...