Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship who fired off guns and a high-decibel noise device. A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds. ...more

November 18, 2009

Sweetbay Supermarkets and Support Our Troops have teamed up to send coffee to soldiers serving overseas. ...more

July 3, 2009

The second mate of the container ship hijacked last week by pirates is likely to be back at his Bradenton home by the end of the week, his wife said today. ...more

April 13, 2009

Even in that dead week between Christmas and New Year's Day, they wanted to meet. ...more

February 2, 2009

Somalia's president will resign today to try to end government infighting before the country's Ethiopian allies leave, a senior ally said Sunday in the latest in a series of conflicting statements on the leader's future. ...more

December 29, 2008

The Bush administration inherited a mess in strategic Somalia and may be leaving President-elect Barack Obama with a worse one. ...more

December 29, 2008

An Indian warship destroyed a suspected pirate vessel Tuesday off the Horn of Africa. It was the second time in a week that India has used force to fight piracy off the eastern coast of Africa. ...more

November 29, 2008

An Indian navy frigate on Tuesday battled with and sank a suspected Somali pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest and most lawless shipping lanes. ...more

November 20, 2008

TAMPA As the USS Taylor tied up to its dock near Channelside on Friday, a small contingent of women from earlier wars and a different Navy was there to hold up signs of greeting. ...more

January 18, 2008