[ad name=”HTML-68″] WASHINGTON – The Republican National Committee adopted a resolution from Virgin Islands GOP National Committeeman Jevon Williams that called upon Congress to cease foreign aid to countries that voted against…
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South Carolina Man Steven Jaheim Baxter Was Also Arrested On Drug and Gun Charges Last Year: LCPD
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – The South Carolina man arraigned on federal gun charges Wednesday was previously arrested in his home state with a pound of marijuana, four grams of ecstasy, and a stolen firearm…
Scholarly Journal Says ‘U.S. Energy Colonialism’ Is Reason Puerto Rico Is In The Mess It’s In
SAN JUAN — Four months after Hurricane María blasted Puerto Rico with 155-mph winds, the island remains in crisis—a humanitarian disaster that a new paper published in open-access journal Frontiers in Communications argues is…
Consider Yourself Lucky More People Didn’t Die During the 2017 Hurricane Season … Is There A Reason Why?
[ad name=”HTML-68″] MIAMI — The 2017 storm season tormented the U.S. with four hurricane landfalls and scores of deaths, but a preliminary review shows no one succumbed to the most lethal force in a…
Massachusetts Congressman Says Trump Administration Needs To Step Up Efforts To Help Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
APT ATTENTION: Rep. Richard Neal (right) and Rep. Jim McGovern hear what needs to happen in Puerto Rico. [ad name=”HTML-68″] SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts congressman has asked Trump administration officials to provide an…
MURDER SUICIDE: St. Croix Woman Jazmine Willock Shot and Killed By Her Boyfriend In Tucson
[ad name=”HTML-68″] TUCSON — Arizona police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide after a man and woman were found inside a south side home Thursday. Officers responded to the home in a neighborhood…
Male Plaskett Employee Will Spend Two Years In Prison For Admitting To Circulating Topless Photo of Delegate
[ad name=”HTML-68″] WASHINGTON — Former employees of Del. Stacey Plaskett pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges related to distributing lewd images of the Virgin Islands congresswoman and her husband. The Department of Justice…
St. Croix’s Linval Joseph Won’t Play For A Second Super Bowl Ring This Year, As Philadelphia Soars Above Minnesota 38-7
[ad name=”HTML-68″] MINNEAPOLIS –- St. Croix native Linval Joseph won’t get the chance to play for a second Super Bowl ring. That’s because the Philadephia Eagles mercilessly pecked apart the Minnesota Vikings…
New England Ekes Out Another Championship Victory, This Time With Tom Brady’s Injured Hand, 24-20 Over Jacksonville
(Foxboro, MA, 01/21/18) New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady checks out his injured hand before the AFC Championship game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, January 21, 2018. Staff…
Seventh Circuit Court Says Residents of U.S. Territories Can’t Vote Absentee For President Per Former Residence on Mainland
[ad name=”HTML-68″] CHICAGO — Residents of the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico have no right to vote absentee in their former state of residence, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…