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A U.S. Coast Guard inspection report shows that a Missouri tourist boat that sank last month, killing 17 people, was on the lake when the wind speed far exceeded the allowable limit. The Coast Guard on Wednesday announced it had convened a formal Marine Board of Investigation into the accident involving the Ride the Ducks of Branson boat.
A supporter of President Donald Trump heckles CNN Jim Acosta, left, during a Trump rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Trump rallied against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, saying it's time for Florida to vote him out of office at the rally.
After Thursday's drownings, the conversation among Dauphin Island officials has been about getting some sort of beach warning system. It was a long 16 hours for first responders on Dauphin Island as they quickly shifted from rescue to recovery mode after a man and 17-year-old boy from Taiwan drowned .
To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: The latest design, showing the proposed front entrance of the estimated $100 million National Coast Guard Museum planned for downtown New London waterfront, is seen in this rendering released Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center's biosecurity teams - working with the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska , Nebraska Medicine and Indiana University, Bloomington - have been busy this year conducting military research and training exercises for the Department of Defense and also providing training for civilian responders from across the nation. Assistant vice chancellor for interprofessional health security training and education John Lowe is heading a team of 11 investigators from Nebraska, Indiana and NSRI evaluating the equipment and procedures used to airlift patients in bio-isolation.
In this Thursday, July 26, 2018 photo, Westport tech entrepreneur and Navy veteran Steve Obsitnik, right, one of five Republicans running for governor, meets with voters in Waterford, Conn., during a campaign event ahead of the Aug. 14 primary. Obsitnik, who was stationed at the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton, said he's been campaigning for a while in eastern Connecticut, where many communities voted for Donald Trump.
Victor Martinez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday for the rape and murder of Marilyn Pharis, in a courtroom filled with Pharis' family and friends. Martinez did not look at those who spoke of the sadness and loss they endured as the result of his violent acts.
Sgt. Paul Ketcham looks at Moro Beach where two panga boat were recently found near Crystal Cove State Beach while giving a tour to a reporter on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Two Harbor Patrol deputies on patrol in Dana Point Harbor last weekend noticed something odd: 11 people, some in life vests, standing on the west jetty with no boat in sight.
A new report from the RAND Corp. analyzed survey data from thousands of active-duty military members and found Marines are more likely to be heavy drinkers, use tobacco and engage in riskier sexual behavior than the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the other branches. RAND found that incidents of binge drinking and hazardous drinking among Marines were almost double what they were in the Air Force.
The Navy is clamping down on who can become a surface warfare officer - a move aimed at boosting focus on bridge watch-standing opportunities for future warship commanders. Effective immediately, sailors pursuing SWO certification must be commissioned line officers qualified to command warfighting units or be making a lateral transfer into the field, according to a Navy instruction issued July 23. The change - which restricts limited-duty officers, chief warrant officers and senior enlisted sailors from becoming SWOs - comes after ineffective watch-standing was found to be partly to blame for separate collisions last year that killed 17 sailors on the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain.
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From 2009 to 2016, the Defense Department recruited more than 10,000 non-citizens into the armed forces. Now some say they're being discharged without explanation.
The New York Times reports the 62-year-old known as Marge has been living for free in the 222-year-old Montauk Lighthouse for 31 years - since April 1987 - when the U.S. Coast Guard moved out of the property on the island's eastern end and turned it over to the Montauk Historical Society. She lived at the lighthouse for free but the caretaker's job came with no pay, so she worked during the day at the local post office for 30 years.
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's office would like to know why work that should be going to Red River Army Depot is going elsewhere. "Language has been put into the National Defense Authorization Act for FY19 to investigate this and figure out why missions are going other places than where they are supposed to," a Cruz spokesman said.
The drinking water aboard a U.S. Navy ship at a Virginia shipyard is no longer testing positive for E. coli or coliform bacteria. The Virginian-Pilot reports a routine water test at a Portsmouth shipyard Thursday found the contaminants on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Truck falls off Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in crash A crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel closed all southbound traffic for a time Friday evening, officials said. Check out this story on eveningsun.com: A freight truck went over a Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel safety wall and into the water on Friday, officials confirmed, stopping all southbound traffic for a time.
Launched from the USS John Paul Jones, a Standard Missile-6 demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in their final seconds of flight during live fire tests July 28-Aug. 1, 2015. President Trump's dream of a "Space Force" to protect American satellites either had a setback or made "significant progress" this week, depending on your perspective.