A maintenance worker of the Tinian Department of Community and Cultural Affairs was arrested for allegedly committing traffic offenses and possession of methamphetamine or “ice” in San Jose, Tinian on Friday night. Gary Michael Cruz Cepeda, 48, was taken to Saipan Superior Court...

Ex-convict Mario Olopai Sablan was slapped with a nine-month prison term for trying to extort $100 from a woman who lost her wallet at a poker arcade and for violating his probation. Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio sentenced the 39-year-old Sablan last week to...

The CNMI government does not object to the proposed $7.4- million settlement that the NMI Retirement Fund’s former investment consultant, Merrill Lynch, has agreed to pay the CNMI Settlement Fund, according to Attorney General Edward Manibusan. Manibusan, as counsel for Gov. Eloy...

A Chinese diver drowned while three others were rescued by the Department of Public Safety’s Boating Safety personnel at the Grotto in Marpi on Saturday afternoon. DPS Commissioner James C. Deleon Guerrero told Saipan Tribune yesterday that Yong Jin Ding, 33, male, of Beijing,...