WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a department...

The St Thomas police are probing what is suspected to be a murder-suicide in the parish on Good Friday. Dead is 47-year-old Lorraine Hutchinson of Citron Valley, Middleton in the area. Also deceased is Hutchinson's ex-boyfriend who is...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Director of the National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO), Michelle Forbes is again urging Vincentians to prepare for the possibility of an explosive eruption of La Soufriere. The volcano has been...

Three men were arrested by the police in St Ann following the seizure of a homemade firearm and a 12 gauge cartridge. Their identities are being withheld pending further investigations The recovery was made during an operation in Steer Town on...

Jamaica on Thursday recorded eight new COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 607. The deceased are: * A 65-year-old male from St. Elizabeth. * An 80-year-old male from St Elizabeth * A 69-year-old male from St Elizabeth * A 73-year-old male...

A boy in Iraq who was born with three penises is the first child ever proven to have the strange deformity, doctors have claimed. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case with three penises or triphallia," wrote Dr...

Mayor of St Ann's Bay, Councillor Sydney Stewart, will lead a team across major towns in the parish over the Easter holiday, to provide meals to the homeless during the extended curfew period. The holiday curfew will begin at 8:00 p.m., today...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams, says that measures are being put in place to ensure the safety of students, who will sit the Ability Test component of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) on May 26. "I know that...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, says he will be exploring the possibility of designating bamboo as an agricultural crop in keeping with the Ministry's objective of building a robust bamboo industry and getting more farmers...

The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard 15 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from U.S. health officials for quality control problems. Emergent BioSolutions, a little-.....

The Government's second coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination Blitz is to be held this Saturday, April 3, at the National Arena, in St Andrew. The blitz is the mass vaccination plan being implemented by the Ministry of Health and Wellness to...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba, CMC - The Prime Minister of Aruba has resigned. Evelyn Wever Croes, the island's first female Prime Minister who came into power in November 2017, resigned on Tuesday after prosecutors announced an investigation...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded three COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 599. The deceased are a 76-year-old male from St James, a 30-year-old female from Portland and a 33-year-old female from St James. The death of the 33-year-old was previously....

It was pure joy at the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre yesterday as four-year-old Mary took her first steps. Mary, a resident of the Missionaries of the Poor Nazareth Home, was born without limbs. Winfield Boban, managing director of...

On Tuesday, Fabian Skyers sat with his friends chatting and laughing a short distance away from his house in Sterling Castle Heights, St Andrew. But this vibrant smile quickly gave way to sadness as our news team approached. It has been nearly......

A Stony Hill, St Andrew family has expressed disappointment with a funeral home after the wrong corpse ended up in their relative's casket and suit for burial. Eileen Kellyman-Chen, whose brother Patrick Kellyman passed away on January 15, said.....

Jamaica has instituted travel restrictions for travellers from the South American countries of Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay. This decision comes after a review of the situation in South America where several countries are....

Words like professional, punctual and patient were used to describe slain police constable Jermaine Bennett, who, according to his former trainer, was never late for work in his eight years in the force. Detective Inspector Natrica Bryce-Henry of....

Donette Prendergast, owner of Prendy's on the Beach in Hellshire, and Verol Scarlett, a chicken vendor in Portmore, are two St Catherine operators who are singing praises of the e-Commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS). The business operators....

Commercial sex workers along the busy Port Henderson Road in Portmore, St Catherine, are asking Prime Minister Andrew Holness for an extension to the curfew hours. As part of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, Holness announced three...