Virgin Islands News

Despite rainy weather and even though it is not an election year, residents gathered in Grove Place on Monday afternoon to celebrate the life, legacy and accomplishments of labor leader and community activist D. Hamilton Jackson during Liberty Day ceremonies Also known as D. Hamilton Jackson Day, or Bull and Bread Day, Virgin Islanders observe ...

Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands has signed into a law a 30-year revenue deal with the owners of locally produced Cruzan Rum, which has a heritage on St.

BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. a ' A Blount County native was one of three people killed when a small airplane crashed October 29th, 2009 in St.

Daily News Photo by CHRIS WALSH Gov. John deJongh Jr. is shown the new 911 system.

ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - U.S. Virgin Islands police have identified the people killed in a small plane crash last week as a man from Tennessee and two residents of the Caribbean territory.

Two men were shot and killed early Saturday morning in downtown Charlotte Amalie and a third man was killed by gunfire Saturday night, according to police.

ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - Authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands are using dental records to try to identify three people killed in a small plane crash, a police official said Sunday.

Law enforcement teams on St. Croix executing search warrants on the homes of two Estate Rattan men in relation to a burglary case discovered a marijuana-growing operation.

Senate pushes back GERS reform Law passed by Legislature in 2005 was supposed to take effect Jan.

Senators passed a slew of bills at Wednesday's session, including measures to expunge arrest records with no conviction, ban texting while driving and appropriate money to various projects and programs territorywide.

Clad in bright red T-shirts and chanting "Down with dope, up with hope," a group of students made their way along Moravian Highway to the University of the Virgin Islands on Wednesday afternoon for a vigil and speakout contest to mark Red Ribbon Week.

An injured sea turtle is heading home to virgin Island after being nursed back to health in Florida.

You know the Dept. of Tourism Cent-Sation program is attracting a lot of interest.

A hawksbill sea turtle treated in the Florida Keys after a wild dog attack in the Virgin Islands is ready to return home.

True story: in 1979, I went on a vacation with my parents and sister to the Caribbean island of St.

A Virgin Islands judge has scheduled a re-trial in the murder case of Jamie Cockayne, a New Hope man who was stabbed to death in Cruz Bay in 2007.Superior Court Judge Brenda Hollar said the new trial for Jahlil Ward, Kamal Thomas and Anselmo Boston will be held Dec.

An annual forum aimed at drawing attention to the issues people with disabilities face in the territory - and at finding solutions - is scheduled for Oct.

Daily News Photo by CHRIS WALSH Faye Snow LaFever gives Benito Feliciano a haircut Friday during Project Homeless Connect at the University of the Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center on St.

Daily News Photo by CRISTIAN SIMESCU Good Hope School students Macdonald Taylor, 17, left, and Eric Guzman, 17, carry pieces of a discarded refrigerator during a Coastweeks cleanup at Salt River on St.

The Virgin Islands Police Department's Cold Case Squad in the St. Croix District is asking the public's assistance in solving the 2002 homicide of George Anduze.