Maritime Accidents

The website for the Tel Aviv stock exchange was shut down for hours on Monday, the apparent victim of hackers, while El Al Airlines shut down its site after it was similarly threatened....

Italian cruise ship wreck yields sixth victim. Witness accounts allege human error caused disaster....

Cruise ship: Explosives experts blast holes in wrecked cruise ship in search for more survivors. Number of missing rises....

The bodies of four men and a woman were found Tuesday in the damaged cruise liner Costa Concordia, an Italian coast guard official said....

SAN DIEGO -- A four-month investigation concluded that a fatal boat accident on San Diego Bay was caused by overcrowding and the poor condition of the vessel, Harbor Police officials announced Wednesday. Ten people were aboard a 26-foot MacGregor...

Survivors of a fishing boat that sunk off Baja California swam for hours before they were rescued from the water or made it to shore, officials and a family member said Monday afternoon. Rescue operations were still underway Monday afternoon......

President Obama has angered America's silent majority, Jonah Goldberg writes in this week's column, and it is those people who will probably drive him out of office. The dilemma for Obama is that non-liberals don't see the situation the same......

Best reason to go: Variety. The menu is like a book and there are flavors and tastes for everyone of every age. Days of the week are even themed: Irish Monday; Caribbean Wednesday. For the kids: Believe it or not, it's the decor. It's themed with...

A 23-year old from Grand Haven faces prison time for a boat accident that killed a man from Fruitport last month. Victor Gouveia was charged Thursday with Operating a Vessel While Intoxicated (OVWI) causing Death, and a second charge for OVWI causing...

by Mary Rourke Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic, the ocean-liner that sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean, died today. She was 97. She died at......

The hype has begun well in advance of another round of the annual war over whaling between the Japanese and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The former group is preparing for its impending seasonal hunt of mostly minke whales, with......

FOUR FRANCHISES AT A CROSSROADS: PART 4 This week, we're taking a look at four major trilogies from this decade that are looking to add a fourth film despite substantial challenges -- not least among those challenges the skepticism of......