Italian authorities say at least 29 African migrants have died of hypothermia while crossing the Mediterranean in freezing weather and rough seas. The Italian coast guard says it found seven people dead when it answered a distress call from the migrants’ boat off Libya late Sunday. It says 22 others died on a vessel that […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard recognizes the successes of Alaska’s boating safety program with an 80 percent drop in recreational boating fatalities since HB108, Use, Regulation and Operation of Boats, was introduced in 1998. Boating safety has come a long way since 1998 when there were 38 fatalities; in 2014 Alaska reported seven fatalities. Alaska’s […]
Twelve people in Paris are dead and an additional eight are injured after two hooded, heavily-armed men burst into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire there. Although investigators do not know the origin of the attackers,during the attack, it is reported that they hollered “God is great!” in Arabic, […]
Searchers continue to find more bodies from the crashed AirAsia airliner that went down during a two-hour flight from Surabaya to Singapore on Tuesday. So far, at least 40 bodies have been pulled from the Java Sea of the coast of Borneo, no survivors have yet to be found as almost three dozen ships and […]