FREDERIKSTED — Police are investigating after a St. Croix man was shot in the stomach near the dumpster at an Estate Plessen housing community. An adult female called the 911 Emergency Communications Center and reported…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — An injured loggerhead sea turtle was rescued by volunteers from the Sea Turtle Assistance and Rescue (STAR) network in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Fish and Wildlife…
FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix woman told police this week that her boyfriend threatened to kill her and then began strangling her. The adult female walked into the Ancilmo Marshall Command Police Station at 6:21p.m. Wednesday and…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Department of Human Services Commissioner Kimberley Causey-Gomez informs the public that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Households who failed to recertify by March 30, 2022, will not receive any…
Political newcomer Antoinette Gumbs-Hecht was the top vote-getter in the caucus to reconstitute the V.I. Republican Party. The St. Thomas real estate agent and mother of two bested April Newland — ironically her boss at…
CHRISTIANSTED — A series of Virgin Islands Free Press reports on a “wolf” stalker who shadowed a St. Croix woman near the Christiansted Cemetery for weeks led to his eventual arrest on sex offender charges…
The Republican National Committee threatened legal action against John Canegata on the eve of a territorial caucus to reconstitute the territorial Republican Party. The warning was delivered in an email message from RNC Chief Counsel…
FREDERIKSTED — Commissioner Kimberley Causey-Gomez advises the public that the VI Department of Human Services (DHS) continues to serve our constituents throughout the territory. However, due to a recent COVID exposure, the SNAP/Medicaid Eligibility Office…
CHRISTIANSTED — A Dominican man with a fake Puerto Rican driver’s license was stopped by federal authorities at the St. Croix airport this week. Reynaldo Mejia-Mejia, 33, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was arrested…
CHRISTIANSTED — One beach in St. Croix failed to meet established standards for water quality and should be avoided this weekend, according to the latest DPNR Beach Advisory. The Department of Planning and Natural Resources…