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A.M. Costa Rica top stories
This is a summary of the most important or most interesting stories that have appeared recently in A.M. Costa Rica, the English-language daily newspaper.

• Two female U.S. tourists have a really bad day
  The plane left without two U.S. female tourists who now stand accused of drug trafficking.
• Sales for future delivery get stronger regulations
  Real estate developers who offer proposed projects or projects in development must now comply with strict rules for the protection of consumers.
• Canada seeking expanded free trade treaty
  Canada would like to amplify its free trade treaty with Costa Rica to include access to telecommunications and insurance here, and Costa Rica would like Canada to issue visas here to Ticos instead of shipping the documents to Guatemala.
• U.S. plans to raise the visa application fee
  The U.S. government is proposing a $9 increase in tourist and business visas. The State Department has published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to do just that. In addition, the proposal contains a $19 increase for certain other visas.
• Can the winners handle the lottery prizes?
  Somewhere this morning there is joy in an undetermined number of Costa Rican homes. Here live those who have been lucky and got a piece of the Gordo Christmas lottery, which was drawn Sunday night.
• Tico singer misses becoming and idol
  The country took it on the musical chin again Thursday night when a female singer from the Dominican Republic won the title of Latin American Idol. In No. 2 place was Eduardo Aguirre of Esparza.
• Museum features barrios of San José
  The Museo Nacional inaugurates a new exhibit tonight that features four of the cities neighborhoods, called barrios in Spanish.
• New study says ocean is rising higher and faster
  Costal residents of Costa Rica could face sea level increase of between 75 and 190 centimeters by 2100, according to a new study by European researchers. Converted to the U.S. measurement system, the rise would be between 29.5 and 74.8 inches.
• Former president's funeral
  Former president Rodrigo Carazo Odio will receive a state funeral with services at 3:30 p.m. at the Catedral Metropolitana.
• More pitfalls in the marketplace
  Tamales and toys got the eagle eye from government consumer inspectors at the end of last month. They found major differences in the prices. For tamales, a tradition Christmas dish, similar ingredients had price differences up to 314 percent. Super Saretto in San Rafael de Escazú and Super Cristal in Curridabat tied for having the highest prices.
• A reader's brief on the luxury home tax
  Laws are written by politicians with good intent but with very little understanding of how difficult or impossible it is to comply with them. Most laws passed in Costa Rica are eventually challenged in the supreme court and ruled unconstitutional. I would hope that this will happen in the case of the Costa Rica luxury tax on homes.
• It pays to shop around, ministry concludes
  Some popular food products vary in price by as much as 289 percent depending on where they are purchased. That is the main finding of the Ministerio de Economía. Industría y Comercio in another one of its surveys of local stores.
• Cruz Roja fixes up some yucky water wells
  Some 150 families in the Provincia de Limón have been getting their water from wells that sometimes were no more than holes in the ground.
• More investigation sought in case of suicide victim shot twice
  A Swiss woman has asked prosecutors in Nicoya to reopen the investigation into the death of her German husband. The case has been ruled a suicide and shelved. But in a filing made via a San José lawyer, the woman, Barbara Antoinette Ruegg, points out that her husband was shot twice and that the bulk of the evidence has not been examined throughly.
• Escazú police snag apartment invasion suspects
  Bandits who presented themselves as judicial police raided an apartment complex in Guachipelín de Escazú Friday and took computers, cell phones and money.
• 26 foreigners have weapons permits suspended
  The security minister has pulled the permits of 26 foreigners so that they no longer are able to carry firearms. The minister also established additional rules for foreigners who seek these carry permits.
• Airport taxis have their permit pulled
  The price regulating agency had pulled the permits of Taxis Unidos. the operator of the orange vehicles that service Juan Santamaría airport.
• Climate change is a really complex issue
  Climate change is one of those complex issues that average citizens have difficulty understanding. For most, the easiest course is to accept an ideology and not study the scientific facts. So some viewers of Fox television accept the belief that global warming is a fake issue designed to steal billions from First World taxpayers. Radical environmentalists, on the other end of the scale, are convinced that any change in temperature is manmade.
• Security issue resonates with voters
  Two presidential candidates have grasped the security issue and seem to be making headway in the polls. They are Otto Guevara of the Movimiento Libertario and Luis Fishman Zonzinski of Partido Unidad Social Cristiana. Both seem to be cutting into the strong lead held by Laura Chinchilla Miranda, who quit as the nation's vice president to seek the top office.
• This was a sweet hurricane season
  The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended Monday. The season had the fewest named storms and hurricanes since 1997 thanks, in part, to El Niño, said the U.S. Climate Prediction Center.
• Coffee exports taking a big hit
  The country's coffee producers are taking a major hit on the world market. Coffee is one of the major pillars of the country's economy. Dow Jones said Tuesday that November exports of coffee were down 50 percent when compared to the year before. The country exported 32,200 60-kilo bags of coffee in November, according to the financial service.
• Dickens was thinking of the aguinaldos
  Expats can be pardoned for reciting the line made famous by a successful businessman in "A Christmas Carol":
• Let there be light!
  The electric company says it has installed 600,000 Christmas lights in the city and elsewhere, not counting the 31,000 lights that will illuminate the tree on the grounds of the Hospital Nacional del Niño.
• Yet another U.S. runaway mom
  Another U.S. father was in Costa Rica last week seeking a son for whom he has full custody.
• Tributación has a few more forms for you
  Expat business operators are finishing up this weekend their 2008-2009 annual report of sales and purchases, which is due Monday. But the Dirección General de Tributación, the tax collecting agency, has a surprise for them. This fiscal year they will have to do the same job every three months.
• Sexual harassment law beefed up
  The legislature Wednesday beefed up a law prohibiting sexual harassment and created a secret process to evaluate such claims. The law covers all forms of sexual harassment but with an emphasis on harassment of women. Public, private and academic areas are included in the law, which is a modification of existing legislation.
• Can a mere mortal evaluate a house for the luxury tax?
  Can a normal human compute the new tax on so-called luxury homes? Editors asked Dennis Rogers, a fluent Spanish speaker and frequent contributer, to try to do it.
• Condo invading suspects captured
  Investigators have detained four more suspects in what is turning out to be a massive case of home and condo invasions, mostly in the Escazú and Santa Ana areas.
• Dark horse entry wins trans-Atlantic race
  The multi-hull Crêpes Whaou! crossed the finish line off Puerto Limón Monday night at 10:31 p.m. to cla