CHRISTIANSTED — A series of events are scheduled locally as Virgin Islanders join millions across the nation in marking October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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Over 6,000 people in Haiti leave their homes after gang attack killed dozens
SAINT-MARC (AP) — Nearly 6,300 people have fled their homes in the aftermath of an attack in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members that killed
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School bus drivers on St. Croix stage job action a day after students ‘viciously’ beat colleague
CHRISTIANSTED — School buses across St. Croix stayed in park this week after drivers staged a job action in solidarity with a colleague who was
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Former owner of water buffalo that roamed Iowa suburb for days pleads guilty
DES MOINES (AP) — The owner of a water buffalo that ran loose in a Des Moines, Iowa, suburb for days pleaded guilty for having an animal
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Investigators in Haiti accuse three members of transitional presidential council of corruption
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — An anti-corruption agency in Haiti on Wednesday accused three members of the country’s transitional presidential council of bribery in a scathing report that threatens
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Los Angeles prosecutors to review new evidence in Menendez brothers’ 1996 murder conviction
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should
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Twin babies who died alongside their mother in Georgia are youngest-known Hurricane Helene victims
ATLANTA (AP) — Obie Williams could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he answered his daughter’s daily phone call last week as Hurricane
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Garth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artist
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her
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A crash saved a teenager whose car suddenly sped up to 120 mph in the rural Midwest
MINNEAPOLIS — Sam Dutcher had just finished running errands when the 18-year-old’s Honda Pilot suddenly began to accelerate, even though his foot wasn’t on the
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Filing in Trump case details remarkable schism with Pence over rejecting 2020 election loss
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before rioters roamed the halls of the U.S. Capitol threatening to “hang Mike Pence,” Donald Trump told his vice president that people are going
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