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Thirty-two people were rescued from a yacht that nearly sank in Miami near Monument Island. The United States Coast Guard and partner agencies responded to the sinking ship around 5 p.m. on Saturday.
SWANSEA, Mass. — A Swansea, Massachusetts, ambulance was recovered in Providence, Rhode Island on Sunday after it was stolen during a medical call, the town's police department said.
For the first time in 30 years, the city of Tybee Island issued the organizers a special event permit from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day, for the area of the beach just north of the pier.
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, April 3 (UPI) -- South Korea's Jeju Island collectively mourned the deaths of tens of thousands killed nearly eight decades ago during an early Cold War massacre on ...
During WWII, on March 30th, Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island were forced to leave their homes and head to the dock where the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial is now located. On Sunday ...
Island Memories exhibition recalls WW2 occupation Eighty-eight-year-old Maisie Le Page, from Sark, was three when the war began ...
A new exhibition recalling islanders' memories of the German occupation of Guernsey during World War Two has opened this week in St Peter Port. The Island Memories Project: Liberation 80 is a ...
A man from Guernsey said he was almost evacuated during World War Two as a child before his mother had "second thoughts". Hirzel Dorey, now 91, was six years old when the war began and shared his ...
The Battle of Guadalcanal was a military campaign fought between August 7th of 1942 and February 9th of 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal of the Solomon Island chain, in the Pacific ...
Isla Blatchford - BBC Guernsey communities reporter December 31, 2024 at 11:37 PM Barbara Quevâtre said memories of her work in naval intelligence during WW2 stay with her 80 years on [BBC] ...