Hawaiian seafood caught by foreign crews confined on boats
By MARTHA MENDOZA and MARGIE MASON Pier 17 doesn’t even show up on most Honolulu maps. Cars whiz past it on their way to Waikiki’s famous white sand beaches. Yet…
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Homeland Security taking to the sky in drug smuggling fight
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL As soon as the aging P-3 surveillance plane rumbles off the island runway, a crew of three agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection begins hunting…
FACT CHECK: What’s happens if Homeland Security shuts down?
By ERICA WERNER and ALICIA A. CALDWELL Spending for the Department of Homeland Security hangs in the balance as Congress fights over immigration matters in the agency’s annual funding bill.…
OFFICIALS: ENCOURAGING SIGN FOR 24 STRANDED WHALES
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO Vultures feed off the carcasses of an adult whale and and a calf ,Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at Highland Beach in the Everglades National Park, Fla. Wildlife…
Search-and-rescue continues after Fla. jet crash
By KELLI KENNEDY and JENNIFER KAY Wreckage of the plane that crashed off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is brought aboard a Coast Guard boat Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013,…
RUSSIA TO FILE PIRACY CHARGES AGAINST GREENPEACE
By ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV and LYNN BERRY Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’ is escorted by a Russian coast guard boat, in Kola Bay at the military base Severomorsk on the Kola peninsula…
WANTED MICH. MAN, 3 KIDS FOUND SAFE AT LAKESHORE
By JOHN FLESHER Searchers gather outside a ranger station at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan, where a search was underway for a man and his three children…