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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everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.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.
Prosecutors mull death penalty for Aleisia Owens in killing of toddler
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Prosecutors mull death penalty for Aleisia Owens in killing of toddler

PITTSBURGH — Prosecutors acknowledge privately they are "hamstrung" over whether to include the death penalty in the criminal complaint against a Pennsylvania woman charged with murder in the poisoning death…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
Baggage handler’s shirtless stunt in airplane’s turbine could have got him killed: ‘Stupid’
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Baggage handler’s shirtless stunt in airplane’s turbine could have got him killed: ‘Stupid’

They didn’t appreciate his air strip-tease. A judge has blasted an ex-baggage handler as “vain and stupid” after he filmed himself working out shirtless inside a moving jet engine at…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
Coast Guard intercepts a migrant boat with nearly 100 people from Haiti on board
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Coast Guard intercepts a migrant boat with nearly 100 people from Haiti on board

PORT-AU-PRINCE (MH) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday returned to Haiti almost 100 people who were stopped offshore of the island country in an overloaded migrant boat last week,…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
Florida most at risk of ‘severe coastal flooding.’ New research shows where
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Florida most at risk of ‘severe coastal flooding.’ New research shows where

MIAMI (MH) — Florida is the state where the most people and the most properties will be at risk of experiencing “severe coastal flooding” by 2050, according to new analysis…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
Haitian migrants share harrowing stories of abuse as Dominican Republic ramps up deportations
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Haitian migrants share harrowing stories of abuse as Dominican Republic ramps up deportations

BELLADERE, Haiti (AP) — A crowd of 500 descended from dusty trucks on a recent morning and shuffled through a tiny gap in a border gate separating Haiti from the Dominican Republic.…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
Idaho governor signs bill criminalizing public breast exposure and ‘truck nuts’
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Idaho governor signs bill criminalizing public breast exposure and ‘truck nuts’

BOISE (IS) — Idaho Governor Brad Little signed into law a bill that criminalizes the public exposure of breasts. House Bill 270 updates Idaho’s indecent exposure law, which already bans public exposure of genitals,…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
St. Croix: Windy with sunshine and a few clouds and a high of 88
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Environmental News

St. Croix: Windy with sunshine and a few clouds and a high of 88

CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be windy with sunshine and a few clouds and a high of 88, AccuWeather said Tonight St. Croix will be breezy in the evening;…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
Val Kilmer, legendary actor known for ‘The Doors’ and ‘Tombstone,’ dies at 65
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Val Kilmer, legendary actor known for ‘The Doors’ and ‘Tombstone,’ dies at 65

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Val Kilmer, the acclaimed, brooding actor who starred in a string of blockbuster hits in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 65.…
Posted by John McCarthy April 2, 2025
From prison to writer to mentor
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From prison to writer to mentor

CHICAGO — Sammy Horowitz’s backstory is the stuff of movies. In fact, that’s how he met his writing partner, Adam Pasen. It’s also how the two WGAW members ended up…
Posted by John McCarthy April 1, 2025
Over 200 cruise passengers and crew infected with norovirus aboard Cunard Line ship
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Over 200 cruise passengers and crew infected with norovirus aboard Cunard Line ship

NEW YORK (NYP) — More than 200 people aboard a still-at-sea Cunard Line cruise bound for New York, including members of the crew, contracted norovirus in the latest cruise ship…
Posted by John McCarthy April 1, 2025

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