At a nondescript mall in Beavercreek, a sleepy suburb in south-west Ohio, workers are unpacking the latest camping equipment, bikes and kayaks ahead of a grand opening of Ohio’s fifth REI co-op location. Surrounded by farmland and leafy streetscapes in a region that relied on manufacturing and an air force base as its economic lifeblood […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn’t comply with federal law. The Tennessee Valley Authority announced in April that it would replace the aging coal-burning Kingston Fossil Plant with […]
(KRON) — The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum in Alameda became the hub for a group of researchers attempting to combat climate change. Last month, researchers from the University of Washington started shooting sea salt particles– otherwise known as aerosols– into the sky to reflect sunlight away from the Earth. Researchers aren’t entirely […]
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — May is Teacher Appreciation Month and the USS Midway Museum is celebrating by offering San Diego County teachers free admission all month long. San Diego County credentialed K-12 teachers can get free, single-day admission to the USS Midway Museum until May 31. First-ever ‘LEGO World Parade’ debuts May 24 at Legoland […]
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A landing craft from the Norfolk-based USS Wasp was involved in an incident that left 30 sailors and Marines hurt on Wednesday night. The U.S. Navy says the incident involved two air cushion landing craft (LCAC) crews, one from the Wasp and one from the USS New York, off the coast […]
The crew of the Navy destroyer Stout recently provided medical assistance to an injured member of a cargo ship Monday while conducting operations with Carrier Strike Group 8 off the coast of North Carolina. The Stout’s bridge crew overheard a bridge-to-bridge radio transmission from a cargo vessel requesting medical assistance from the Coast Guard as […]
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The commanding officer of the U.S. Navy Los Angeles Class attack submarine USS Columbia encountered a pleasant coincidence Wednesday when visiting Columbia. The submarine and Flat Branch Pub and Brewing both are celebrating 30-year anniversaries. The vessel’s mess hall is known as Flat Branch Café. “The Flat Branch anniversary is a happy accident for us,” […]
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — It has been 35 years since the explosion on the then-Norfolk-based USS Iowa that killed 47 sailors. The Iowa had been preparing for exercises off the coast of Puerto Rico when a gun turret on the battleship exploded on April 19, 1989, which remains one of the deadliest days in Navy […]
The first model of the USS Enterprise — used in the opening credits of the original Star Trek television series — has gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry’s son decades after it went missing. The model’s disappearance sometime in the 1970s had become the subject of lore, so it caused a stir when […]
The maintenance-embattled USS Boxer is heading back to San Diego just 10 days after deploying due to an engineering issue, as first reported by USNI News and confirmed to Military.com by Navy officials. Sailing as the big deck, or lead ship, of its amphibious ready group, the Boxer had already been delayed by months when […]
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