ASSISTANT U.S. Attorney Eric O’Malley, in a status report filed in federal court on Friday, stated that the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation was awarded $42.5 million for fiscal year 2025. “This included funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which allocated $21 million per year over five years for water and wastewater infrastructure improvement projects in the…
A federal judge has blocked an executive order by US President Donald Trump that would have ended the ability for the children of illegal migrants to claim birthright citizenship. Mr Trump issued the order upon his return to the White House in January, in effect denying citizenship to those born to parents living in the…
MIAMI (AP) — A drug informant who helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration build some of its biggest cases has been arrested and charged with scheming to extort major cocaine traffickers facing extradition from Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Jorge Hernández, 57, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday with one count of conspiring…
EIGHTEEN new U.S. citizens were sworn in during a naturalization ceremony at the District Court for the NMI on April 22, 2025. Patricia Phelan, U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services officer, made a motion in court to accept the applicants as new citizens. Presiding over the special court session, Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona granted the…
ON Dec. 16, 2024, the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands held a naturalization ceremony at which twenty candidates from four countries were granted their applications for naturalization and were officially welcomed as the country’s newest U.S. citizens. The event was presided over by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona and took place at the…
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A woman associated with MS-13 was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in federal prison for her role in luring four young men to be killed by more than a dozen members of the violent transnational gang in the New York City suburbs. Leniz Escobar was a “critical player” at nearly…