CRUZ BAY — Three males brandished guns and demanded money from employees at a restaurant in St. John on Friday afternoon. The incident began about 1:00 p.m. when two individuals at a Coral Bay restaurant…
SAN JUAN — The hot temperatures don’t stop. At least until Monday, we could have highs near the daily record. Showers and thunderstorms associated with an area of low pressure located several hundred miles southwest…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s Cabinet on Friday approved the deployment of 1,000 police to lead a multinational peacekeeping mission to Haiti to combat gang violence. The country’s parliament must now sign off on the…
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 71 million Americans will increase 3.2 percent in 2024, the Social Security Administration announced today. On average, Social Security retirement benefits will increase by…
TORONTO (AP) — The filmmaker Raoul Peck was sitting in a Toronto hotel lobby talking to a reporter when Barry Jenkins beelined over to embrace him. The two know each other, though it had been…
SAN JUAN — The National Hurricane Center continues to issue advisories on Tropical Storm Sean. The NHC is also monitoring a tropical wave south of the Cabo Verde Islands with a 70 percent chance of…
Investing is a vast universe of strategies and techniques, each tailored to meet different goals and risk profiles. One technique, often overshadowed by others, is option selling. As a path less traveled in the investment…
NEW YORK — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has chosen the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (VIDPNR) to receive nearly $700,000 in funding under EPA’s Environmental Justice in Communities program to assist…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti declined today to join neighboring Dominican Republic in reopening a key commercial border crossing, leaving some trade at a standstill and prolonging a diplomatic crisis over the construction of a canal…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.73 billion after no one matched the game’s six numbers Monday and won the giant prize. The winning numbers announced were: 16, 34,…