Loss of veterans "Keeping Veterans Day Alive" by Ed Hooper (Other Views, Nov. 10) caught my attention. ...more

November 11, 2009

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter is hovering over a 46-foot cabin cruiser that is taking on water and in immediate danger of capsizing some 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

October 11, 2008

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is moving toward cutting harvest of reef fish yet again, with recent preliminary approval of a ruling that would drop the overall Gulf grouper limit to four fish, only two of which could be gags. Two red grouper also would be allowed in the new limits, rather than the one currently permitted, and the season would be closed Feb. 1 to March 31 during the prime spawning season offshore. ...more

June 18, 2008