KINGSTON, Jamaica In a gritty slum, they are preparing for war. They are building barricades of junked cars and sandbags, making Molotov cocktails and pitching barbed wire over power lines. They are ...

Police, soldiers storm slum in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by U.S. KINGSTON, Jamaica — Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos where reggae was born Tuesday in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into the capital's most violent slums on Tuesday, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she's not worried about skin cancer ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- After a slum raid that left nearly 50 people dead in four days of gunbattles, the reputed drug kingpin who was the target may have fled the country, the government said ...

Now, much of Jamaica is on edge as people wait to see if Coke's many supporters in the slums of West Kingston will also remain calm with the loss of a 42-year-old leader credited with providing ...

KINGSTON, May 26 (Reuters) - Gunfire resounded in parts of Jamaica's capital Kingston on Wednesday as security forces fought armed supporters of a fugitive alleged drug lord in a fourth day of ...