SAN JUAN (AP) — Puerto Rico’s new natural resources secretary has shelved an investigation into allegations of illegal construction in a protected area on the island’s southwest coast, sparking an outcry. The administrative order, published late on Thursday,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — An indictment was unsealed Friday charging Calvert White, the commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Sports, Parks, and Recreation, and Benjamin Hendricks, a local businessman, with participating in a bribery scheme,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — An indictment was unsealed Friday charging Ray Martinez, the former police commissioner of the Virgin Islands Police Department, and Jenifer O’Neal, the former director of the Virgin Islands Office of Management and…
SAN JUAN — Long-periods of northerly swells will produce hazardous marine and coastal conditions throughout the weekend due to dangerous breaking waves across the north, east, and west-facing beaches, the National Weather Service said this morning. A COASTAL FLOOD…
PROTESTANT CAY — The Department of Health, today, issued an immediate Cease-and-Desist Order to Hotel on the Cay in St. Croix, requiring the hotel to suspend all operations due to the detection of legionella contamination…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 10 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the Los Angeles area. In hilly, upscale Pacific Palisades,…
ROMA, Texas — A self-confessed veteran of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group arrested for crossing into the United States from Mexico appears to have been honored as a combat veteran weeks earlier by an organization established…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Several high-profile Haitian politicians trying to find a way out of a corruption scandal that has the country’s leadership mired in political infighting are proposing a reconfiguration of the nine-member Transitional Presidential Council…
KINGSHILL — Police are investigating after a 45-year-old man was killed near a Glynn restaurant in St. Croix early this morning. Rey Enrique Romero of St. Croix was positively identified by a family member as…
FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix man was accused Sunday of the rape of minor female, authorities said. Kenrick Devon Mottley, 36, was arrested and charged with first-degree rape, second-degree rape, first-degree assault, child abuse, and…