Florida man to be executed for raping 13-y-o step-niece 50 years ago

A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his 13-year-old step-niece nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison....

Woman killed in Love Lane attack, suspect gunned down hours later

A brutal stabbing in downtown Kingston has ended with two dead on Wednesday after a woman was killed in full view of bystanders and the alleged attacker was later shot dead by police. Fifty-year-old Katherine Wallace was stabbed about 6:15 p.m....

FNID seizes $30M in drugs and assets two charged in separate busts

A massive drug bust has rocked sections of St Andrew after police seized more than 130 pounds of cocaine, ganja and millions of dollars in assets during coordinated operations, while also intercepting a US national at the airport. Detectives...

Cop among two killed in crash after driver swerves to avoid pothole

A police constable is among two men who lost their lives in motor vehicle crash along the Seaforth main road in St Thomas on Tuesday night. Dead are 25-year-old Keron Kellyman, a constable attached to the Highway Patrol Division, and 31-year-old...

Suspect leads police to dead body belived to be missing cop Sylvester Reid

An update has emerged in the disappearance of police Sylvester Reid, after a body believed to be his was found in bushes along a dirt track off the Parnassus Main Road in York Town, Clarendon. The discovery was made late Tuesday night after a...

Bus conductor in viral schoolgirl attack video in police custody

After days of public outrage over a viral video showing two schoolgirls being assaulted on a bus, the conductor at the centre of the storm has turned himself in and is now in police custody. The Jamaica Constabulary Force confirmed that the man...

JLP blasts Brown-Burke over mace incident

Chaos erupted in Gordon House on Tuesday after South West St Andrew MP Angela Brown-Burke grabbed the parliamentary mace, sparking outrage that led to her suspension and a sharp rebuke from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). The governing JLP has...

Black River High students to sit CSEC Exams on campus

Black River High School in St Elizabeth has put measures in place to ensure that students can sit their Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations on campus, despite significant damage caused by Hurricane Melissa last October...

Lawyer into custody after nearly two-hour standoff in MoBay

Just days after she was listed as a person of interest in a Fraud Squad investigation, downtown Montego Bay became the scene of a tense standoff where attorney-at-law Debby-Ann Samuels reportedly spent nearly two hours locked inside a motor car,...