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The official in charge of closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center has resigned, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Phillip Carter submitted his resignation letter Friday after just under seven months in the post, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.

As morning broke, King Airport employees and about 160 American Airlines passengers were alerted to a bomb scare and ushered out of the terminal...Police Department's Zone A Command in the Farrelly Justice Complex indicating that there was a bomb at...

Judge orders separate retrials in Cockayne murder Tuesday, November 24th 2009 ST...Kamal Thomas, 19, Anselmo Boston, 32, and Jahlil Ward, 20 - who originally were charged with the June 2007 murder of Jamie Cockayne on St...Ward, who was convicted of...

Embassy exhibits Edward Curtis photos of Native Americans Andy Mieses, Governor of the Columbus Lighthouse, Christopher Lambert. Santo Domingo.- The United States Embassy’s Commercial attaché and the Governor of the Columbus Lighthouse inaugurated the exhibit by renown American photographer...

Guyana — Police say a jaguar prowling the lush jungles of Guyana killed a gold and diamond miner as he fetched water from a creek. A police statement says fellow miners found 43-year-old Kurt Rodrigues after the mauling...Rupununi Region vice...

Maritime Electric has signed up far fewer households than it wanted for this year's Winter Challenge on P.E.I. The use of helmets will remain voluntary at Atlantic skill hills this year because there are no models approved by the Canadian...

Man cleared of importing $2.2 million of drugs Prosecutors had alleged that Bermuda Aviation Services (BAS) worker Macai Bean, 25, drove a sanitation truck up to the Delta flight that arrived from Boston at 11.40 a.m on September 1, 2008....

At least 10,000 women were victims of sexual violence last year. Moving up the ranks of Guatemala's ruthless gangs can be as simple as robbing a store at knife point or as brutal as shooting a city bus driver...In January,...