The U.S. government is asking for more time to respond to the CNMI government’s lawsuit that seeks to stop the U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Internal Revenue Service from imposing tax liability associated with the Federal Insurance Contribution Act on Philippine...

An unidentified man armed with a machete staged a daylight robbery at a poker arcade in As Lito yesterday. A surveillance camera caught the incident. No one was reported hurt but the suspect managed to run off with cash from MGM Poker, according to the Department of Public...

Former CNMI attorney general Richard Weil urged U.S. District Court bankruptcy judge Robert J. Faris yesterday to reject what he described as an exorbitant $1.2 million attorneys’ fee being requested by the NMI Retirement Fund’s lawyers. In a letter to Faris filed in...

An ex-convict who scammed a car rental owner of $500 by deceiving the businessman that he could help recover the passports and other belongings that were stolen from a group of Chinese honeymooners pleaded guilty yesterday and was slapped with a 100-day prison term. Cheyenne P....