Tropical Wave Should Bring Increased Rainfall To The USVI and Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN — The month of August arrived with a tropical wave that should increase the frequency of rainfall in the Virgin Islands and the east and south of Puerto…
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Firefighters Contain Fire At Agave Restaurant In Havensight Mall On St. Thomas
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Firefighters were able to contain a kitchen fire at Agave Restaurant in Estate Thomas on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The Hotel Company was dispatched at 2:19 p.m.…
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JPMorgan moved $1.1 million from Jeffrey Epstein to ‘women or girls’ after terminating client relationship, USVI alleges
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase handled more than $1.1 million in payments from Jeffrey Epstein to “girls or women” after the giant bank says it fired the sex offender as a client, a lawyer for the U.S. Virgin…
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Firefighters Extinguish House Fire In Hard Labor On St. John
CRUZ BAY — Firefighters worked to extinguish a house fire in St. John this morning, authorities said. Firefighters responded to a structural fire in Hard Labor at 10:05 a.m., the…
NHC Sees tropical depression in the offing
MIAMI — A tropical depression is expected to form in the next day or so to the far east of the Caribbean. Meanwhile, odds dropped for a “short-lived” tropical cyclone…
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Leon Black accused of raping teen with autism at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in new lawsuit
The new accusations follow Epstein-related rape allegations made against Black last year NEW YORK (TAN) — Financier Leon Black has been accused for the second time in as many years of raping…
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Rastafarians celebrate freedom of worship after gaining sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua
LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically…
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France’s Supreme Court rejects groups’ request for slavery reparations in case from Martinique
PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court has rejected a request by three groups seeking reparations for slavery in a case that originated on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. The…
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People Warned Not To Travel To Haiti After American Mother and Daughter Kidnapped
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department…
NWS Forecasts Afternoon Showers For Today
MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center is still watching a disturbance in the central tropical Atlantic with a high formation chance in the next seven days and 48 hrs. Shower…