CHARLOTTE AMALIE — An unlicensed contractor who bilked five St. Thomas homeowners out of $140.000 in the aftermath of 2017’s hurricanes has agreed to a last-minute plea deal with prosecutors. Henry Peters pleaded guilty in…
CHRISTIANSTED — A top officer of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority was arrested for a nearly two-year-old sexual assault of a St. Thomas woman in a St. Croix hotel, authorities said. John M. Green,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A confidential informant who turned cowboy on the feds and tried to make off with $1.1 million in cocaine after a beach shootout in 2019 was found guilty as charged on Thursday,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Local Justice officials say a Florida man who failed to register as a sex offender has been arrested on St. Thomas. Leon James Brisson Jr. 53, of Polk, Florida, was arrested at…
SAN JUAN — Fiona, a Category 4 hurricane, pounded Bermuda with heavy rains and winds early Friday as it swept by the island on a route forecast to have it approaching northeastern Canada late in…
CAGUAS — A growing number of businesses, including grocery stores and gas stations, are temporarily closing across Puerto Rico as power outages caused by Hurricane Fiona drag on in the U.S. territory, sparking concern about…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are investigating after a man told police he was struck in the head repeatedly by a co-worker while sitting in the back of a company vehicle on Wednesday night. Officers and…
SAN JUAN — Personnel from the Seventh Coast Guard District in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are assessing ports and waters impacted in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, Tuesday. Currently, all ports in Puerto…
HAMILTON — Hurricane Fiona strengthened into a Category 4 storm today after devastating Puerto Rico, then lashing the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this…
CHRISTIANSTED — The Department of Public Works (DPW) said that emergency relief road work is taking place in the Altona Lagoon area of St. Croix, on Route 753 East. The box culvert at this site…