Court was a streamlined affair on Monday morning, with Superior Court Judge Christopher M. Timmons presiding over a single, sobering matter. Edwin Rivera, Case No. SX-2026-CR-00100, stood to be formally advised of four criminal charges, including grand larceny and a serious violation linked to a domestic protection order.

Exporting Dignity: The High Cost of the AG’s Broken Promise Summary: Attorney General Gordon Rhea set April 10th as the "line in the sand" for the St. Croix morgue to finally go live. That deadline has passed, and the tarps at Golden Grove aren't budging. After a passenger death aboard the Adventure of the Seas last week, the VIPD admitted that St. Croix is still outsourcing its deceased to Puerto Rico. We crunch the numbers on this fiscal drain and ask why the "Dratte Machine" has gone silent while taxpayers foot the bill for the government's missed deadlines.