The accelerated transition to full-fledged NCAA Division I member for the University of St. Thomas is almost over.

After spending five months of his life at Broward Health Medical Center, Alanie Lettsome was released from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and is going home to the island of St. Thomas, the hospital said in a news release Saturday.

Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year.

Teshawn Adams and Shakim Mike are identified as two U.S. Virgin Islands police officers in criminal complaints filed in federal court. (Photos: The Virgin Islands Daily News)Opa-locka, Fla. – Two U.S. Virgin Islands police officers, along with four others, have been charged with drug trafficking after more than 700 pounds of cocaine were found as the officers and two other men landed on a private plane at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport. Roystin David, 28, and Maleek Leonard, 27, from St. Thomas were traveling with the two officers on the private passenger jet. (Department of Justice)The Virgin Islands Daily News reported that the island’s police commissioner Trevor Velinor said that the officers had passed standard background checks. According to the newspaper, the affidavit said that Mike fled the airport as the officers were inspecting the baggage.

MIAMI Nathalia Ashworth was 23 weeks pregnant when she and her husband Aaron left for a planned vacation to the Virgin Islands in February. A couple of days into vacation, I went into labor and started to have contractions to the point where I needed to go to an urgent care, thats all St. Johns had, was an urgent care, she said. They took care of me and tried to slow the labor contractions down and mentioned that if I had may baby there, there was a 10% chance, up to 10%, that she would survive. Because of the pandemic, the couple couldnt go back home to Boston. Baby Gabriella will likely spend several more weeks in the NICU in Massachusetts before she can truly come home.

The strengthening storm began to hit the U.S. Virgin Islands and is nearing the British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Wind gusts in the Virgin Islands have already exceeded 90 mph. Footage from St. Thomas early Wednesday afternoon showed strong winds and heavy rain as the storm moved through. Residents of St. Thomas were hunkered down as Dorian passed. Dorian passed through Barbados earlier this week.

MIAMI - An Australian man fell overboard Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas ship early Wednesday morning while the cruise was en route to St. Thomas, Royal Caribbean spokesman Owen Torres confirmed to ABC News. According to Torres, the ship immediately turned and launched a rescue boat when the man fell overboard. Josh Mackey, a passenger onboard the ship, said he noticed search lights in the water between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. According to Mackey, he could see another cruise ship nearby and wasn't sure whether the victim had fallen from his ship or the other. It's unclear how the man fell overboard.

Epstein built on the island a stone mansion withCHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands - Ask about Jeffrey Epstein on St. Thomas and rooms go quiet. "Everybody called it 'Pedophile Island,'" said Kevin Goodrich, who is from St. Thomas and operates boat charters. "He wasnt well received," recalled Spencer Consolvo, a St. Thomas native who runs a tourist shop near a large marina. John de Jongh, as its office manager, according to records with the U.S. Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority. "We would much rather that the Virgin Islands be seen in a different light."