CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Ten construction workers were rushed to Schneider Regional Medical Center on Friday morning after a scaffold collapsed in western St. Thomas. A
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Puerto Rico outage knocks power out to 350,000 customers during heat wave
SAN JUAN — A widespread power outage hit Puerto Rico Wednesday night, leaving more than 350,000 customers without electricity after two of the U.S. territory’s
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St. Croix hospital CEO found his golden parachute … in Kearney, Nebraska
CHRISTIANSTED — When Douglas Koch leaves St. Croix he is hardly being put out to pasture in the Midwest. Not at all. That’s because Juan
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Psychiatric emergency response teams get OK by Senate committee amid mental health update
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Health Committee lawmakers approved a previously tabled measure to provide mobile mental health crisis intervention services through a Psychiatric Emergency Response Team
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Top Juan F. Luis Hospital executive resigns
CHRISTIANSTED — Douglas Koch, chief executive officer at the Juan F. Luis Hospital in St. Croix, announced his resignation this week. In a statement, Luis
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Being a patient is getting harder in a strained and complex US health care system
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tamika Davis couldn’t nap on her couch during cancer treatment. She kept worrying one of her toddlers would wander over and
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State of emergency declared in Atlanta over water main break: Mayor
ATLANTA — A state of emergency was declared in Atlanta on Saturday evening following two water main breaks, Mayor Andre Dickens announced at a press
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‘Dense cloud’ of Saharan dust approaches
SAN JUAN — A dense cloud of Sahara dust is approaching on the way to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. It will occupy our
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Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says
For the first time, the number of Americans who use marijuana just about every day has surpassed the number who drink that often, a shift
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St. Croix MCH, Community Health Clinics temporarily relocate to UVI’s campus
FREDERIKSTED — The Virgin Islands Department of Health’s Maternal, Child Health and Community Health clinics on St. Croix are temporarily relocating its operations to the
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