31.   Dominican officials said Friday that Alas stopped operating at the time because it had financial problems that could have affected the safety of its operations.

32.   Dominican officials had stalled for months on U.S. extradition requests for Medina, citing conflicting legislation.

33.   Dominican officials have yet to aggressively enforce existing intellectual property laws or bring them into line with international standards adopted by the World Trade Organization, it says.

34.   Dominican officials must declare their financial status under a new policy designed to root out government corruption.

35.   Dominican officials said Lopez Paulino was wanted in connection with at least three killings in New York City.

36.   Dominican officials said Tuesday that deadly hurricane flooding in the western town of San Juan de la Maguana could not have been avoided.

37.   Dominican officials searched their coastline by sea and air and looked through jails to see if the five may have landed there.

38.   Dominican officials and U.S. and Dominican researchers signed an agreement Wednesday night authorizing the exploration.

39.   Dominican officials are under mounting pressure from the United States to crack down on drug smuggling.

40.   Earlier this year, the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Donna Hrinik, met with Dominican officials to seek stronger punishment for smugglers.