U.S. Coast Guard

When a 47-foot Coast Guard rescue boat skidded sideways during drills at the mouth of Coos Bay, Ore., last week, it seemed the coast boat was toast. Moments later, however, the self-righting vessel popped back up and...

In a 20-foot boat like the one below, Romero and his wife (opposite), El Duque and five other refugees:1. left Cuba for Anguilla Cay to meet Ramis's boat (A), which took on water and never showed;2. were picked up by...

Of Shoes and Gumshoes

After a massive sea and air search, the 60-foot racing sloop Coyote, was found capsized in the North Atlantic, but the fate of her skipper, round the world sailor Michael Plant, was still unknown

BurnedBy the Kansas City Police Department, 350,000 Bo Jackson baseball cards. The cards were part of a police-supported antidrug campaign, and about 10,000 of them were distributed to kids shortly after the Royals...