One dead after plane from Florida crashes in Turks and Caicos Islands
COCKBURN TOWN — One person is dead after a small plane that departed from South Florida crashed Tuesday while attempting to land at an airport in the Turks and Caicos,…
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Police say 3 killed, 10 injured in the Turks and Caicos Islands’ first mass shooting
COCKBURN TOWN (AP) — Three young men were killed and 10 others injured at a popular nightspot in the Turks and Caicos Islands in what authorities called the British territory’s first mass shooting in…
Body found in search for Brian Tarrence on Turks and Caicos was a short walk from where New Yorker vanished
COCKBURN TOWN — A decomposing body found on Turks and Caicos during the search for missing New Yorker Brian Tarrence was just a short walk from his hotel, according to a new…
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New York man disappears while on vacation in Turks and Caicos with his wife
COCKBURN TOWN — A man from New York vanished last week after traveling to Turks and Caicos with his wife, according to local authorities and multiple news outlets. News 12…
Coast Guard intercepts a migrant boat with nearly 100 people from Haiti on board
PORT-AU-PRINCE (MH) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday returned to Haiti almost 100 people who were stopped offshore of the island country in an overloaded migrant boat last week,…
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SpaceX Starship failure prompts diversions, Florida airports ground stops
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) — The failure of a SpaceX Starship test flight on Thursday scattered debris over parts of the Caribbean, prompting numerous flight diversions around Turks and Caicos and…
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Panic as State Department issues travel warning for popular spring break destination
COCKBURN TOWN (Daily Mail) — The U.S. State Department issued a level 2 travel advisory for the Turks and Caicos Islands as thousands of Americans head to the destination for…
Tourist’s hands bitten off by shark on TCI beach after she ‘tried to engage the 6-foot predator to take a picture’
COCKBURN TOWN — A tourist has been savagely attacked by a shark off a Caribbean beach, with reports that the victim lost each of her hands as her husband tried…
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FAA probes reports of SpaceX rocket debris landing in Turks and Caicos
WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration and officials from the Turks and Caicos Islands have launched probes into SpaceX's explosive Starship rocket test that sent debris streaking over the northern…
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Guns smuggled from the US are blamed for a surge in killings on more Caribbean islands
COCKBURN TOWN (AP) — Dozens of soldiers and police fanned out across a neighborhood on a recent night in the Turks & Caicos Islands just days after the archipelago reported a record…