HAVANA (AP) — Many Cubans waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day. Their ...

ATMORE, Alabama (AP) — Alabama executed a man this week who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death ...

TAMPA (AP) — A man has been arrested for animal cruelty after authorities say he abandoned his dog in floodwaters near a highway as residents evacuated Florida’s Gulf Coast last week shortly before ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to expand the arms embargo in Haiti to all types of weapons and ammunition, expressing grave concern at the extremely high levels of ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported this week. There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far, the ...

SAN JUAN — The Coast Guard cautions recreational boaters, fishermen, beachgoers and water sports enthusiasts in U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico of potential high-surf and dangerous rip currents ...

NEW YORK — These days you can have almost anything shipped to your door from websites like Amazon and Walmart — including a house. Walmart is now selling a tiny house online for $15,900. The 19-by-20 ...

HAVANA — As Cuba’s electrical grid shut down Friday, leaving millions of Cubans without power nationwide hours after the government declared an “energy emergency,” authorities have not said when the ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Multiple gangs attacked several communities in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Friday, setting fire to homes and a church as bullets whizzed through the area. At least ...

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A woman who offered money to a man to buy food was strangled in her own doorway. Abdul Ghaffar Abiff, 28, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault-domestic violence, ...

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. John man has been arrested on allegations that he cashed checks stolen from a St. Thomas beach bar. Ronald John Mosholder, 41, of Cruz Bay, was arrested and charged with third ...

CHRISTIANSTED — Government House held the weekly live press briefing from Government House in St. Croix on Tuesday. VITEMA Director Daryl Jaschen, Department of Human Services ...