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The Virgin Islands Daily News is a daily newspaper in the United States Virgin Islands headquartered on the island of Saint Thomas. In 1995 the newspaper became one of the smallest ever to win journalism's most prestigious award, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The newspaper is published every day except Sunday.
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Ruby M. Rouss (3 December 1921 – 8 May 1988) was an American citizen born on Saint Croix in the US Virgin Islands. Her career was marked by a series of firsts. She was the first Virgin Islander in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), first African-American woman to serve on General Eisenhower’s staff, and first black woman assigned as a permanent staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
The Fountain Valley massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the afternoon of 6 September 1972 at the Fountain Valley Golf Course in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. [1] The incident left eight resort employees and tourists dead. Another eight were either shot at or wounded.
Hodge attempted a successful political comeback in 1984, when he was elected as a senator to the 16th Legislature of the Virgin Islands. He won the most votes in the senate race on Saint Croix. [2] Hodge's colleagues in the legislature elected him President of the Virgin Islands Legislature during his freshman term in office, from 1985 to 1986. [2]
WSVI (channel 8) is a television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix, and affiliated with Ion. It is owned by Atlas News and Information Services alongside Charlotte Amalie–licensed independent station WZVI (channel 21). The two stations share studios at the Sunny Isle Shopping ...
After completing her medical education Christian returned to the Virgin Islands, working as an emergency room doctor in Frederiksted, St. Croix. [1] In 1977 she was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Health for the Virgin Islands, [4] which office she held for the following 15 years. [1]
The 2022 U.S. Virgin Islands gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of the United States Virgin Islands. The election was held concurrently with the 2022 United States midterm elections. [1] Incumbent Democratic governor Albert Bryan was elected to a second four-year term in office, receiving 56% of the vote.