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About John McCarthy
John McCarthy is primarily known for his investigative reporting on the U.S. Virgin Islands. A series of reports beginning in the 1990's revealed that there was everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling. Another report, following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, cited a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confidential overview that said that over 40 percent of the U.S. Virgin Islands public lives below the poverty line. The Virgin Islands Free Press is the only Caribbean news source to regularly incorporate the findings of U.S. Freedom of Information Act requests. John's articles have appeared in the BVI Beacon, St. Croix Avis, San Juan Star and Virgin Islands Daily News. He is the former news director of WSVI-TV Channel 8 on St. Croix.
Mystery around Gene Hackman’s death deepens as wife Betsy Arakawa’s doctor claims she called him after police say she died
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Mystery around Gene Hackman’s death deepens as wife Betsy Arakawa’s doctor claims she called him after police say she died

SANTA FE. New Mexico—The deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa continue to be shrouded in mystery as a Santa Fe doctor has sensationally claimed that Arakawa had called…
Posted by John McCarthy March 17, 2025
Trial to begin for Haiti town’s ex-mayor on charges he lied about rights abuses to get US residency
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Trial to begin for Haiti town’s ex-mayor on charges he lied about rights abuses to get US residency

BOSTON (AP) — A former mayor from Haiti is set to go on trial Monday after authorities say he lied on his visa application about committing rights abuses in his country. Jean…
Posted by John McCarthy March 17, 2025
Partly sunny, brief morning shower or 2 and a high of 85
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Partly sunny, brief morning shower or 2 and a high of 85

CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be partly sunny with a brief morning shower or two and a high of 85, AccuWeather said. Tonight St. Croix will be mainly clear…
Posted by John McCarthy March 17, 2025
Fisherman found alive after 95 DAYS at sea reveals how he survived after being blown off course in huge storm
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Fisherman found alive after 95 DAYS at sea reveals how he survived after being blown off course in huge storm

LIMA — A Peruvian fisherman who spent 95 days lost at sea in the Pacific Ocean has told how he ate roaches, birds and sea turtles to survive. Máximo Napa…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025
Joshua Riibe speaks out for the first time after being named a person of interest in Sudiksha Konanki case
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Joshua Riibe speaks out for the first time after being named a person of interest in Sudiksha Konanki case

PUNTA CANA — The Iowa college student linked to the disappearance of spring breaker Sudiksha Konanki has broken his silence as more details about his personal life emerge.  Joshua Riibe, 24, was the…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025
Michigan judge wanted Walmart shoplifters to wash cars. His boss stepped on the hose.
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Michigan judge wanted Walmart shoplifters to wash cars. His boss stepped on the hose.

DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan judge has thrown cold water on a plan to have Walmart shoplifters wash cars as a consequence for their misdemeanor crime. The unusual sentence came from Judge…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
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Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025
Pennsylvania toddler allegedly killed by dad’s girlfriend who fed her acetone, batteries, screws
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Pennsylvania toddler allegedly killed by dad’s girlfriend who fed her acetone, batteries, screws

PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania woman is accused of fatally poisoning her boyfriend’s 18-month-old daughter by feeding her batteries, screws and nail polish remover after she researched the harmful effects the…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025
Baby found buried in box in backyard after Penn teen told she couldn’t have an abortion
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Baby found buried in box in backyard after Penn teen told she couldn’t have an abortion

EAST DONEGAL TOWNSHIP — Police in Pennsylvania are investigating after a baby was found buried in a backyard — months after a teen reportedly took an abortion-inducing medication that was…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025
Stabilizing the historic Cinnamon Bay Danish warehouse
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Stabilizing the historic Cinnamon Bay Danish warehouse

CRUZ BAY — Virgin Islands National Park in partnership with the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is in the process of stabilizing the Cinnamon Bay Danish Warehouse…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025

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