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Sailors on Bataan, Mesa Verde, Whidbey Island finally home

NORFOLK -- USS Bataan ARG is back home from a deployment that's one for the record books. The deployment was the longest since USS MIDWAY was out for 327 days in 1973, the Navy said. The deployment to Europe and the Middle East started March 23, 2011 when the ARG relieved the Kearsarge ARG and 26th MEU. It ends today with homecomings at Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little ...

Phivolcs 7: Tsunami warning correct; sees more aftershocks

THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) 7 said it did not make a mistake in issuing a tsunami alert level 2, after the 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurred in Negros and Cebu at 11:49 a.m. last Monday. Rolando Montañez of the Phivolcs Seismic Monitoring Station in Lapu-Lapu City said in a radio dyRC interview that the warning was intended for towns along the western coast ...

Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World

The Jamesburg Earth Station is a massive satellite receiver in a remote valley in California. It played a central role in satellite communications for three decades, but had been forgotten until the current ...

Hints from Heloise: Readers weigh in on stopping to aid motorists

Dear Readers The letter about a woman spotting an elderly, stranded female motorist and not knowing how to help inspired a mountain of mail. Read on for some responses

250 sailors return home with USS Ramage

NORFOLK -- 250 Sailors aboard USS Ramage are now home. The guided-missile destroyer returned to Naval Station Norfolk on Friday after eight months in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship left May 20, 2011 on her third deployment in four years in support of the ballistic missile defense strategy, the Navy said.  The crew also rescued an Egyptian fisherman who was adrift. Now the sailors are focused on ...