St. Croix: Partly sunny, windy, passing shower or two, high 87
CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be partly sunny and windy with a passing shower or two in the afternoon and a high of 87, AccuWeather said. Tonight St. Croix…
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Kmart St. Croix to close in August
CHRISTIANSTED —The lone remaining Kmart retail store located in St. Croix will close its doors for good in early August. The approximately 96 employees of its Castle Coakley location will…
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VIDE offers Credit Recovery Program for Summer 2025
CHARLOTTE AMALIE —The Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) reminds the public of the 2025 Credit Recovery Program in both districts for students who may need to retake failed courses. While Credit…
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Puerto Rico seeks to lure manufacturing to boost its economy as Trump’s tariff war deepens
SAN JUAN (AP) — A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the U.S. territory, attempts to strengthen its fragile economy. Government officials are jumping on planes to try and…
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ICE deported his brother to El Salvador, so he hid in Texas, then fled back to Venezuela
Jonferson Valera Yamarte, a young Venezuelan immigrant who had made his way to the U.S. last year, hid after he witnessed in March how federal agents arrested his brother and…
Tiny Amerindian village in Guyana fights gold mine in key court battle over indigenous land rights
CHINESE LANDING, Guyana (AP) — One of Guyana’s smallest Amerindian villages is waging a monumental battle that could decide the amount of control that thousands of indigenous people have over…
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Pope Leo XIV’s Creole heritage highlights complex history of racism and the church in America
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in…
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Evacuations ordered at Clearwater high-rise after structural crack discovered
CLEARWATER, Florida (FOX) — Dozens of residents were urgently evacuated from a 12-story condominium building on Tuesday after construction workers discovered a growing crack in a support column in the building’s parking…
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House passes bill on Trump’s Gulf of America
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to formally change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following…
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Retired IRS agent gets 12 years for scamming elderly California woman out of life savings
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) — A retired IRS agent from Southern California has been sentenced to state prison after she was convicted of defrauding an elderly San Francisco Bay Area woman…