SAN JUAN — Spirit Airlines has announced that it will expand service to Puerto Rico with two new routes in December. In addition to nonstop flights launched from Baltimore, Philadelphia and Tampa to San Juan earlier this year, the airline will introduce daily flights from Boston, Mass., and Newark, N.J.,

FREDERIKSTED — Four-year-old Aaron Benjamin died from blunt force trauma to the head, according to the results of an autopsy released by the Virgin Islands Police Department. Kyle Christopher, 22, and Delicia Daniel, 29, were charged Monday with first-degree murder, third-degree assault-domestic violence, aggravated child abuse and child neglect and

HAVANA — The United States is imposing new sanctions on Cuba over its human rights record and its support for Venezuela’s government, the U.S. Commerce Department said this weekend. In a statement Friday, the Commerce Department said it will restrict Cuba’s access to commercial aircraft by revoking existing licenses for

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The New York Times Company was forced to sue the U.S. Virgin Islands government in order to get needed documents about one of the late Jeffrey Epstein’s businesses in the territory, the Virgin Islands Free Press has learned. The fourth-largest newspaper in America sued USVI Lieutenant Governor

CHRISTIANSTED — Governor Albert Bryan has issued an executive order declaring a state of public exigency for the Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital & Medical Center. Following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, the hospital was heavily damaged due to substantial water intrusion and physical damage to its facilities. This

CHRISTIANSTED — Police put out a missing person poster on a California woman who was last seen near Estate Coakley Bay on St. Croix. Belinda Pauline Flannery, 50, was last seen walking out of E-6 Coakley Bay Condominiums on St. Croix’s East End about four days ago, the Virgin Islands

HARTFORD, Connecticut — Two lawyers linked to the so-called Panama Papers are asking a federal judge to stop Neflix’s upcoming release of “The Laundromat,” which they say defames them as criminal masterminds and may affect criminal cases against them. Panamanian lawyers Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca filed a defamation lawsuit

SAN JUAN — At least six people were killed during a massacre at a public housing project in Puerto Rico on Monday night. Videos recorded by residents captured the terrifying moment a group of armed men stormed the Ernesto Ramos Pianini residential complex in Río Piedras at 6:45 p.m. One

CHRISTIANSTED — Alert police on patrol in the Gallows Bay area arrested a wanted 20-year-old St. Croix man who allegedly had two illegal guns in his possession — one of them the same type of semi-automatic weapon used by the U.S. Secret Service to protect President Trump. Jiovoni Smith of

CHRISTIANSTED — During a ceremony at Limetree Bay Refinery, LLC Friday evening, officials of Limetree presented certificates of completion for Basic Operator Training to 19 residents of St. Croix as they train to become Refinery Process Operators. The men and women completed a rigorous six-week training program and were the