NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase handled more than $1.1 million in payments from Jeffrey Epstein to “girls or women” after the giant bank says it fired the sex offender as a client, a lawyer for the U.S. Virgin Islands told a judge Monday. Many…
CRUZ BAY — Firefighters worked to extinguish a house fire in St. John this morning, authorities said. Firefighters responded to a structural fire in Hard Labor at 10:05 a.m., the Virgin Islands Fire and Emergency…
MIAMI — A tropical depression is expected to form in the next day or so to the far east of the Caribbean. Meanwhile, odds dropped for a “short-lived” tropical cyclone to form south of Nova…
The new accusations follow Epstein-related rape allegations made against Black last year NEW YORK (TAN) — Financier Leon Black has been accused for the second time in as many years of raping someone at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan…
LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking marijuana. For Rastafari, the…
PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court has rejected a request by three groups seeking reparations for slavery in a case that originated on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. The court’s decision on Wednesday said…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel…
MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center is still watching a disturbance in the central tropical Atlantic with a high formation chance in the next seven days and 48 hrs. Shower and thunderstorm activity continues in…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jewell Loyd scored 26 points with eight assists, Jordan Horston made 7 of 11 from the field and finished with 15 points to help the Seattle Storm beat the Indiana Fever 85-62…
CHRISTIANSTED — Three Good Samaritans and a former police officer worked to free an elderly woman trapped in an overturned SUV near Bassin Triangle on St. Croix this afternoon. Ronald Pickard, a former police officer…