Virgin Islands News

The V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency will host a series of meetings territorywide to present new information on the agency's tsunami preparedness efforts and talk with residents about tsunami readiness.

Authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands say an off-duty police officer has been wounded while confronting three men suspected of killing a man at a nightclub in St. Croix.

Weather in the World : 40 degrees in Philadelphia, 35 in New York City with cloudy skies 40 degrees in Washington, still a chilly 36 in MontrA©al and 41 in Toronto while Minneapolis is 22 degrees.

The Senate Rules and Judiciary Committee passed six bills on to the full body Wednesday, including a bill to create a feed-in tariff program that would allow people to sell excess renewable energy to the V.I. Water and Power Authority.

On Tuesday, intermediate students from two public schools showed off their reading comprehension skills in a newly developed reading competition.

Local marine tour operators are fearful that imminent marine tariff rate increases are a sign of more increases to come.

A St. John man who recently served time for smuggling illegal immigrants into the territory now has been tied to a human trafficking scheme that left eight people, including four children dead.

KidWind winners Narendra Balkaran and Idrees Donaie, from St. Croix Educational Complex, pose with adviser Joann Lewis, center, Saturday at Charlotte Amalie High School on St. Thomas.

Attorneys for four of the men arrested in connection with the armed robbery of the Imperial jewelry store in downtown Charlotte Amalie are accusing prosecutors of unfairly dragging out their clients' detention.

Two Haitian nationals have been arrested in the U.S. Virgin Islands after being indicted on charges of conspiracy to smuggle migrants into the U.S. The U.S. Justice Department alleged Monday that the two suspects conspired with others to smuggle mostly Haitian migrants to the U.S. island of St. John in 2010.

Weather in the World : 65 degrees in Philadelphia, 61 Boston looks like 40s in Chicago well done Amber has 14 degrees and snow is falling and upstate Michigan.

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The discount membership shopping store blamed double-digit devaluation in Jamaica for the dip for the period ending February 2014.

The discount membership shopping store blamed double-digit devaluation in Jamaica for the dip for the period ending February 2014.

The students will be competing in the first Virgin Islands KidWind Challenge and vying for recognition as having designed a homemade wind turbine that, of all the competing turbines, will create the most wind power.

To the Editor: Chikungunya virus , a mosquito-transmitted virus , was first isolated >60 years ago in Africa and is responsible for epidemics of acute polyarthralgia.

Weather in the World : finally in the 50s up North Washington is 51 degrees with clear skies while Boston is still 52 in clouds Chicago has 53 degrees still in the 30s in Denver.

It would be the second release party for the set which is produced by Zion I Kings, a company in Pressure Busspipe's homeland, the United States Virgin Islands.

The legal battle between contractor Tip Top Construction and the V.I. government went before the V.I. Supreme Court on Tuesday, although no ruling has been issued yet.

Daily News Photo by JOY BLACKBURN A contingent from several federal and local agencies conducted a raid of Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility on St. Croix early Tuesday morning, executing a search warrant in connection with an alleged smuggling ring involving inmates and corrections officers.