Ryan Bane Was ‘Drunk And Uncooperative’ When Coast Guard Met With Him After Sarm Heslop’s Disappearance

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

The Crown Mountain Bin Site Improvement Project Is Extended Through June 1.

The extension allows for the continuance of maintenance and upgrades to the site.

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Source: St. Thomas Source | The trusted independent voice of the Virgin Islands community

Evans, Melvin Herbert (1917–1984)

Melvin Herbert Evans was born on August 7, 1917, in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He attended public schools until entering Howard University where he received his B.S. in 1940. In 1944 he received his M.D. from Howard College of Medicine, whereupon he served in a variety of medical

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Source: Black Past

Jan

3

1979

Soogrim takes Mohammed’s XI to victory - Stabroek News

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Young Steffi Soogrim out of Trinidad and Tobago continued to impress the coaches and lead selector during the second West Indies Women’s high-performance camp in Antigua, guiding the Anisa Mohammed XI to a 6-wicket victory over the Hayley Matthews led XI on

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

VIPD, USAO, Community Action NOW! and Senator To Set Town Hall Meeting In Savan

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Captain Sandra Colbourne and members of the VIPD Crime Prevention Bureau; representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative; Iffat Walker, Founder and Executive Director of

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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, better known as Alex Haley, was a celebrated author whose books centered around African American heritage. He was born on August 11, 1921 in Ithaca, New York to Simon and Bertha Palmer Haley. For the first few years of his life he lived in Tennessee with his mother

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Source: Black History Resources

Aug

11

1921

Hubert Harrison

Hubert Harrison, writer, freedom fighter, born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

27

1883

Court Assigns Judge Andrews Jr. to Head Complex Cases Division

After a year-long vacancy in which the V.I. court system’s most complex cases came to a standstill, the Honorable Alphonso G. Andrews Jr. has been assigned to handle litigation in the Complex Litigation Division.

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Source: St. Croix Source | online all the time since 1999

In the Matter of the Estate of Huldah A. Turnbull, Deceased

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

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Source: St. Croix Source | online all the time since 1999

St. Croix’s Pollo Tropical Takes Chicken to a New Level

With an opening anticipated at the end of May, a new Pollo Tropical on St. Croix will be a Virgin Islands first. The Miami-born franchise infuses grilled chicken with citrus marinade.

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St. Croix’s Pollo Tropical Takes Chicken to a New Level

With an opening anticipated at the end of May, a new Pollo Tropical on St. Croix will be a Virgin Islands first. The Miami-born franchise infuses grilled chicken with citrus marinade.

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Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, Files Federal Lawsuit Against Louisville Police

Kenneth Walker filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department for the actions of the officers who killed his girlfriend Breonna Taylor

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

'Who Knows What Would Have Happened?': Black Louisiana Man's Name Is Cleared After His Father's Surveillance Camera Appears to Capture Probation Officer Planting Evidence

Louisiana civil rights activists want a state probation officer fired after video surfaced that allegedly shows him planting drugs on a Black man. McKinley Bates […]

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Ohio Jury Indicts Officer Who Killed Andre Hill On Murder Charges - Blavity

A Franklin County grand jury has

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Man confesses to killing a Black Lives Matter activist, Oluwatoyin Salau

Oluwatoyin "Toyin" Salau and Aaron Glee Jr. (Photo: Twitter/Orange County

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SAPS dealing with big fish 'and maybe some sharks' - Cele on Cape Town's extortion ring | News24

Police Minister Bheki Cele believes they are slowly closing in on the extortion ring that has plagued Cape Town's businesses since last year.

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Kentucky Attorney General: ‘Beyoncé’s Letter Has No Bearing On Whether Or Not I Prosecute Cops In Breonna Taylor Case’

Kentucky’s first black Attorney General has responded to a high-profile celebrity’s letter, which demanded that his office take action in the Breonna Taylor (pictured

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Source: Your Black World

Judge Says Ex-Officer Charged In Daunte Wright Shooting Death Can Stand Trial

Hennepin County Judge Regina M. Chu declared probable cause was found for the April 11 fatal shooting of Daunte Wright supporting the charges against Kimberly Potter.

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Officer Involved In Breonna Taylor Shooting To Be Fired

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville’s mayor said Friday that one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Get a Head Start on Readiness and Resilience During Hurricane Preparedness Week

Residents have nearly three months before the season’s peak when tropical waves form off the west coast of Africa and move through the Caribbean, but Virgin Islanders know hurricanes can spin up anytime.

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Source: St. Croix Source | online all the time since 1999

Walt Frazier

Walter Frazier is a retired professional NBA player who played for the New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers. He was born on March 29, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia and was the eldest of nine children. An exceptional athlete since childhood, Frazier was the star of the football, baseball and

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Source: Black History Resources

Mar

29

1945

First Lady and Groups Team Up With Stanley and Ten Sleepless Knights to Celebrate Older Americans Month

First Lady Yolanda Bryan has teamed up with AARP in The Virgin Islands, the Virgin Islands Department of Tourism, the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts-DPNR, and Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights to celebrate Older Americans Month.

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Fishing Boat Stolen From Parking Lot Of Yacht Club Under Camera’s Watchful Eye

TEAGUE BAY — Surveillance footage of a fishing boat being stolen from the St. Croix Yacht Club early this morning was posted to social media today. 'WANTED for boat theft from St Croix Yacht Club!!! Blue Chevy truck with rusty roof and no tags,' Vic Roberge said on Facebook today.

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Compton School District, Health Group Partner for Mass Vaccination Sites - Los Angeles Sentinel

The partnership is the first of its kind in Los Angeles County, and will result in the ability to vaccinate tens of thousands of Compton residents once community vaccination begins. Compton Unified is the first school district in the state to establish schools as mass vaccination venues, according

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Alex Haley

Alex Haley wrote Roots, one of the most celebrated novels of the 1970s. Haley spent 20 years in the Coast Guard (1939-59) then began a second career as a writer, working for magazines ranging from Readers Digest to Playboy. Haley was a ghostwriter on his first major book: The Autobiography of

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Newcomers elected to Congress

Five newcomers elected to Congress: William Gray III (Pa.) Bennett Stewart (III.), Melvin Evans (R., Virgin Islands), Julian Dixon (Calif.) and George Leland (Tex.).

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

7

1978

In the Matter of the Estate of Huldah A. Turnbull, Deceased

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

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US Coast Guard seizes US$69 million in drugs, four drug vessels in Caribbean Sea

KEY WEST, Feb. 13, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says a crew of its Cutter Mohawk (WMEC 913) returned to its home port in Key West, Florida after a 59-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea in which four drug vessels were seized, five...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Tivoli justice ‘impossible’ - Botched police probes doom search for truth forever, say watchdogs

Commissioner of INDECOM, Terrence Williams, suggested that the initial investigation was marred by delays in the collection of ballistics and forensic evidence and said this “was not assisted by obstruction and resistance [by the security forces] to getting at the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Attorney: Breonna Taylor 'executed' by police in her home

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Black emergency medical worker, Breonna Taylor, was fatally shot by police serving a narcotics search warrant in Kentucky was “executed” in her home, a high-profile civil rights attorney said

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