An arraignment of veteran V.I. Sen. Adlah “Foncie” Donastorg on multiple assault and weapons charges was postponed until March 25, according to the V.I. Department of Justice.

Households using solar energy and selling their surplus power back to the V.I. Water and Power Authority through net metering have increased almost tenfold over the past two years. Now proven successful, the technology is poised to take off, WAPA Executive Director Hugo Hodge Jr. said Wednesday.

The U.S. Senate Wednesday passed a bill extending the rum cover-over after blocking an amendment proposed by Florida Sen. George LeMieux (R) that would have radically altered the way the funds are allocated between the two territories.

The U.S. Coast Guard Wednesday called off its search, pending further developments, for a boater missing since Monday in waters south of St. Croix.

V.I. National Guard soldiers deployed in Cuba, are getting a taste of their 15 minutes of fame with recent profiles in the Guantanamo Joint Task Force magazine: The Wire. The last two editions of the magazine had page-length profiles of two of the territory's finest:  Col. Caroline Adams and Spc. Keith Chambers.

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Out of the three financing proposals submitted by the deJongh administration last week, senators moved forward Tuesday with a bill allowing property tax bills to go out at the 1998 levels, but held back on authorizing the government to borrow another $150 million to plug its projected fiscal year 2010 shortfall.

For the first time in a while, the Senate's full session agenda wrapped well before dark set in, and only one new appropriations amendment -- attempting to pull $250,000 from General Fund for outstanding expenses of the Fifth Constitutional Convention -- made it onto the designated Christmas tree bill.

A quartet of V.I. National Park staff members Tuesday captured the first lionfish discovered on St. John. Rafe Boulon, the park's chief of resource management, said the fish was found east of Waterlemon Cay on the island's north side.

Since the fall, AT&T cell phone service hasn't worked well in the Coral Bay area, several St. John residents said. "We've been paying for phone service and it's been just terrible," Coral Bay resident Phyllis Benton said.