Less than two months before the official start of hurricane season, Colorado State University professor William Gray on Friday reduced his December 2001 prediction of four major Atlantic/Caribbean hurricanes this year by one. He now foresees 12 named storms, seven of them hurricanes, and three of those major hurricanes.

A misunderstanding between two mainland companies, Network Solutions Inc. and OnePaper Inc., caused the V.I. Source newspapers to be off-line to many persons seeking to access the pages between Wednesday night and early Friday morning.

A top Hovensa official told lawmakers Thursday that the refinery supports its largest subcontractor, Wyatt V.I., in its requirement that prospective hires sign a pre-employment agreement calling for binding arbitration in labor-management disputes. But Attorney General Iver Stridiron said he intends to challenge the requirement all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if need be.

With a crack of the bat, the sixth annual Ruby Rutnik Memorial Softball Tournament kicked off on Friday at St. John's Winston Wells Ballfield. First up was Eudora Kean High School from St. Thomas with St. Croix Educational Complex in the field.

With a crack of the bat, the sixth annual Ruby Rutnik Memorial Softball Tournament kicked off on Friday at St. John's Winston Wells Ballfield. First up was Eudora Kean High School from St. Thomas with St. Croix Educational Complex in the field.

At a Senate Labor and Veterans Affairs Committee meeting Thursday night, senators listened as former and present subcontracted employees testified that they had been and are being subjected to unfair hiring practices and racial discrimination at the Hovensa oil refinery.

Picture Sean Penn as a mentally challenged Beatles fan with a 7-year-old daughter he is raising alone on his earnings as a Starbucks busboy, and you've got the goods on "I am Sam." Shmaltz? You bet, but well-done schmaltz, the critics are saying.

Picture Sean Penn as a mentally challenged Beatles fan with a 7-year-old daughter he is raising alone on his earnings as a Starbucks busboy, and you've got the goods on "I am Sam." Schmaltz? You bet, but well-done schmaltz, the critics are saying.

A top investigative reporter who first made his journalistic mark in the Virgin Islands is urging his compatriots to take up their pens and follow his lead.

Less than two months before the official start of hurricane season, Colorado State University professor William Gray on Friday reduced his December 2001 prediction of four major Atlantic/Caribbean hurricanes this year by one. He now foresees 12 named storms, seven of them hurricanes, and three of those major hurricanes.