SAN DIEGO – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Alert, a 210-foot cutter homeported in Astoria, Ore., recovered more than 3.3 tons of marijuana from the Pacific Ocean approximately 90 miles west of San Nicolas Island, Calif., Sunday morning.
Taking the approach that no one in Congress should be immune to budget cuts, U.S. Senator Mark Begich is voluntarily returning a portion of his salary to the Treasury Department and has begun furloughing his staff due to the sequester.
A ten-week dockside maintenance period for the Coast Guard Cutter Hickory in Long Beach, California is now complete and the Cutter has returned to its home in Homer, Alaska.
The man involved in a car/motorcycle accident on Sunday on Trunk Road has died of his injuries.