A 32-year-old taxi operator wanted for questioning in a wounding with intent case was nabbed with an illegal gun during a police raid in Stony Hill, St Andrew, yesterday.

A promise of employment allegedly turned into a nightmare for a woman after a 45-year-old minister of religion allegedly lured her to his Portmore home and sexually assaulted her on two occasions.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly beaten unconscious in the Spanish Town bus park after a dispute over her being “loud” on a bus, leaving two 16-year-old siblings facing serious assault charges.

When a baby was brought to the Bog Walk Police Station in St Catherine by a concerned citizen, Constable Jullan Graham did not hesitate to slip into ‘mommy mode’, showering the three-month-old with some much-needed TLC.

Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.

Southwestern Mexico braced for coastal flooding and mudslides yesterday after Polo, a powerful Pacific cyclone, became a major hurricane.

School groups and community organisations are being encouraged to play a more proactive role in caring for the island’s beaches by making beach clean-up a regular activity.

As part of efforts to reduce fatalities on the nation’s roads, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is sharpening its focus on high-risk motorcycle users, particularly joyriders.

The Westmoreland Public Health Department is intensifying efforts to promote exclusive breastfeeding among infants in the parish.

The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has expressed concern for students and teachers as construction activities are continuing while schools are in session. This follows school tours with focus on the western end of the island.

For approximately six hours after 16-year-old Gabrielle Simpson was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead, her father Lenroy Simpson says he had no idea she was gone.

Since dog owner Shashane Clarke got Ruffles, her nine-year-old mixed Shih Tzu and Maltese, as a pup, she has not been shy to spend money on her.

A St Ann family is left waiting and wondering what has happened to their loved one, after 43-year-old Fabion Lawrence left his Murray Mountain home a week ago and has not been seen since.

More bedtime could mean earlier death Regularly spending more than nine hours in bed could be linked to a higher risk of early death.

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Jamaican music has lost one of its great bass men, with veteran musician Clifton “Jackie” Jackson dying this morning after a lengthy hospitalisation.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning.

Two Spanish Town men were slapped with $50,000 fines each after pleading guilty to urinating in public in St Catherine.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of 64-year-old domestic helper Hyacinth Rose Johnson, whose body was found behind her home in Union district, near Frankfield, Clarendon, in July.