[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] SAN DIEGO — Two California-based Coast Guard petty officers were honored as the 2017 active-duty and reserve enlisted person of the year for the service’s Pacific Southwest region during a…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] MIAMI — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has released new footage aimed at disrupting drug trafficking operations in the Caribbean Sea. CBP said its Air and Marine…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] SAN JUAN — National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham and several U.S. hurricane specialists are making a tour to local airports in Mexico and the Caribbean to visit with residents of vulnerable…
MISSING MAN: MITCHEL MICHAEL,80, OF ST. LUCIA [ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] FREDERIKSTED — The Virgin Islands Police Department is asking for the community’s help as officers continue to search for a missing person Mitchel…
SAN JUAN — The oversight board for Puerto Rico, created by Congress, will hold public hearings on Thursday and Friday to certify revised fiscal plans for the commonwealth, the board said today. The board is…
ARRESTED: Bureau of Corrections officer Darren Giddings, 35, by the VIPD on Thursday. [ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] FREDERIKSTED –– A St. Croix prison guard has been arrested at Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility and…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Facebook clone of Tourism Commissioner Beverly Nicholson-Doty is asking people in the Virgin Islands to apply for National Endowment for the Humanities grants, the Virgin Islands Free Press has learned. The…
FLORIDA KEYS — The queen conch is a large marine mollusk with a beautiful shell that is prized for export. The gastropod inside the shell is featured on menus across the region. But the conch’s…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] SAN JUAN — Bankrupt Puerto Rico plans to save money by closing as many as a third of its jails and shipping its inmates to mainland private prisons. The commonwealth…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] CHRISTIANSTED — The Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority (VIWMA) Preserving Paradise team said that they will be doing needed maintenance in Catherine’s Rest on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 8:00…