NEW YORK (AP) — The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council announced Thursday that he supports a U.N. peacekeeping mission to fight gang violence still overwhelming authorities. It was the first public support announced by…
PERRY, Florida (AP) — Hurricane Helene left an enormous path of destruction across Florida and the southeastern U.S. on Friday, killing at least 56 people, snapping towering oaks like twigs and tearing apart homes as rescue crews…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) recognizes the concerns raised on Thursday, September 26, 2024, by the kitchen staff and a segment of teachers at Lockhart K-8 School. In response, Commissioner…
HAVANA — Cuba’s communist-run government slashed by a quarter the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread, the latest shortage to strain a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the late Fidel Castro. The bread,…
CRAWFORDVILLE, Florida (AP) — Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned that the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge and bring dangerous winds and rain across much of the…
NEW YORK (AP) — A strange moment in American politics paid a visit to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, brought there by a top Haitian official. Edgard Leblanc Fils, the president of Haiti’s transitional…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — After a three-day trial, a Superior Court jury found a St. Thomas man guilty of felony assault today, authorities said. Ramon Alberto Ledesma German, 37, was found guilty of a machete attack…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man was fatally shot in Sugar Estate late Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Ja’haile Clendinen, 21, was positively identified by a family member as the homicide victim, the Virgin Islands…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A collapsed sewer line caused a manhole to overflow in the Norre Gade/Moravian School area of St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority said this afternoon. VIWMA urged residents to avoid…
OAK PARK, Michigan (AP) — Bugs in a library — again. The Oak Park Public Library in suburban Detroit was closed Wednesday for a scrubbing after bedbugs were found in two chairs in the computer…