KINGSHILL — A St. Croix driver barreling down the Queen Mary Highway at a high rate of speed lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a tree early Sunday morning. The unnamed driver required…
CHRISTIANSTED — Police discovered an illegal weapon after a search of a St. Croix motorist’s vehicle near the Sunny Isle Shopping Center, authorities said. Toby Derima II, 29, of Castle Coakley, was arrested at 1:32…
FREDERIKSTED — Officers assigned to the Virgin Islands Crime Initiative arrested an Estate Paradise man on an illegal weapons possession charge on Saturday night, authorities said. Jahseem A. Smith, 26, of Louis E. Brown Villas,…
MIAMI — With a just a little more than a week left in hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is once again monitoring an area of low pressure that has resurfaced in the Atlantic basin.…
NASSAU — An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of storm clouds rising over Andros Island, one of the Bahama Islands. Even though the spacecraft was passing over southern Indiana (nearly…
ROME — The skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave fleeing the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been discovered in Pompeii, officials…
MIAMI — Caribbean experts assessed the coronavirus’s impact on the region in a webinar on Thursday hosted by the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas. Owing in part to its geographic…
BASSE-TERRE — The results of a French parliamentary commission of inquiry into the use of the carcinogenic pesticide chlordecone in the Guadeloupe and Martinique show that the government “consistently failed” to respond to environmental and…
CHRISTIANSTED — A home invader owned up to a carjacking and weapons violation in federal court saying that he beat and robbed a couple at gunpoint on St. Croix’s south shore three years ago, authorities…
FREDERIKSTED — Work is set to begin on Route 667 in Estate Carlton beginning on Tuesday, the Department of Public Works said. DPW is advising the community that “major road reconstruction” will begin on Carlton…