CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A passenger car crashed into a safari van near a shopping center in downtown St. Thomas this evening injuring at least nine people, authorities said. The 911 Emergency Call Center dispatched officers…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — All public schools will be closed today in observance of the Columbus Day holiday. Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day will also be celebrated on October 11. All public…
MIAMI — Activity in the Caribbean is on the rise again, with forecasters monitoring two areas for potential development as a third peters out. A tropical wave located east-southeast of the far eastern Caribbean is…
SAN JUAN — A Spanish-language countdown will be included for the first time in the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” show this year, the Puerto Rico governor announced Thursday. The segment…
FREDERIKSTED — Accelerate VI, the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park’s tech accelerator program, has been selected as a winner of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2021 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. Accelerate…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Forecasters are monitoring “a vigorous tropical wave” located about 500 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands, the National Weather Service said today. The tropical wave is producing a concentrated area of cloudiness…
CHRISTIANSTED — The VIPD Special Operations Bureau served an arrest warrant on a homeless man and charged him with attempted murder and illegal gun possession in connection to a shooting in Watergut nearly two months…
FREDERIKSTED — A vehicle pulled over for a routine traffic stop early Thursday evening in St. Croix led to the arrest of one man and the seizure of an illegal gun and ammunition, authorities said.…
SAN JUAN — The U.S. Coast Guard reports they are searching for a Texas man who was swept by currents in Puerto Rico. The man went missing Wednesday afternoon off of the Steps Beach in Rincon.…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Charlotte Amalie West man was arrested yesterday and charged with the rape of a child on St. Thomas three months ago, authorities said. Mackeem Appleton, 28, of Contant Knolls, was arrested…