SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded more than 14 tons of cocaine Thursday, at San Diego’s Broadway Pier. The drugs were seized in the Eastern Pacific Ocean drug transit zone off the coast of Central and South America. The haul represented 13 vessel interdictions and one bale recovery between late January and early […]
GENEVA—The World Health Organization has convened a meeting of researchers and health officials to determine whether the Zika virus should be declared a global health emergency. The WHO predicts the virus, which may be linked to neurological disorders in babies, could infect as many as 4 million people in the Americas this year. No firm […]
A large 6.2 magnitude startled residents in the south central region of Alaska today when it began what seemed like minutes-long shaking at 9:51 am on Thursday. The quake, felt as far north as Fairbanks and throughout the Kenai Peninsula, and even Kodiak, occurred just 80 miles to the northwest of Anchorage. The quake knocked […]