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WTJX NEWSFEED: March 26, 2026

By Isabelle Teare
Published March 26, 2026 at 6:21 PM AST
Pictured: Darin Richardson, the former Chief Operating Officer for the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority, enters District Court on St. Thomas alongside supporters for his sentencing.
Photo Credit: WTJX/Roshan Sookram
Pictured: Darin Richardson, the former Chief Operating Officer for the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority, enters District Court on St. Thomas alongside supporters for his sentencing.

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: We speak with our chief reporter Tom Eader who was in the courtroom as Darin Richardson, former COO for the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority was sentenced to three years in prison following his conviction last year of fraud and money laundering. The parents of a student who was placed in a chokehold by a school monitor at the St. Croix Educational Complex High School are looking to press charges, meanwhile Education Commissioner Dionne Wells-Hedrington says the monitor has been placed on leave as they investigate the incident. And WAPA says residents in the St. Thomas/St. John district who were expecting an end to rotational power yesterday will have to wait a little longer, with full restoration now expected this evening. Listen to these stories and more.

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Isabelle Teare
Isabelle Teare&nbsp;is the Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of WTJX.&nbsp;She also serves as a multi-media journalist for the System – writing print stories, reporting for the radio NewsFeed, and hosting <i>Trial Watch</i>, a live online program that covers high-profile cases in the territory. Isabelle is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where&nbsp;she&nbsp;specialized&nbsp;in radio broadcast and audio storytelling.&nbsp;Born in Brooklyn but raised on St. Thomas since the age of seven, she attended and graduated from Antilles School before moving to Washington, D.C., where she earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Justice and Peace Studies. Originally planning to pursue a career in law, Isabelle worked as a paralegal on St. Thomas for several years before deciding to follow her passion for storytelling.
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