NEW YORK — Stage and screen actor James Earl Jones, who won Tony Awards for “The Great White Hope” and “Fences,” and whose majestic basso profundo voice would become internationally recognized as the villainous Darth…
MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center (NHC) continues to track two more areas in the Atlantic that could become the next named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Tropical Storm Francine is forecast to become a Category…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The St. Thomas Rescue Team, VIPD officers, community volunteers and cadaver dogs flown in from Central Florida, all assisted in the search and rescue efforts on Magens Bay today. A search and…
FREDERIKSTED — Police are investigating after a mature man allegedly “forced” a teenager to touch his private parts. Adrian Maranda, 53, was arrested and charged with unlawful sexual contact with a minor, the Virgin Islands…
CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix teenager was charged with stealing more than $500 worth of items from Cost-U-Less, authorities said. Luis Anthony Noel, 19, was arrested and charged with grand larceny, the Virgin Islands Police…
HELSINKI — Finland’s government is proposing to ban most Russian citizens from buying property in the Nordic country in a move to protect national security, Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said on Monday. Relations between Finland…
HAVANA — Cuba`s government said it would double down on price controls and continue to fight tax evasion in an increasingly desperate bid to tamp down on a ballooning fiscal deficit and spiraling inflation that…
SAN JUAN — The National Hurricane Center is monitoring Invest 92-L in the Central Atlantic. This disturbance has a 60 percent chance of formation over the next seven days as it moves Westward in the…
CROSS KEYS, Jamaica (AP) — Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As the rain rushed in, a violent wind ripped at the roof,…
NEW YORK (AP) — The United States and Ecuador circulated a draft resolution on Friday asking the United Nations to begin planning for a U.N. peacekeeping operation to replace the Kenya-led mission now in the…