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The Story of the USS Murphys Long Service in Wartime The destroyer USS Murphy survived a collision on the open sea and served during four amphibious operations in the European Theater. Eighty miles off the coast of New Jersey and 280 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean lies the forward section of a World War II destroyer, where it came to rest more than 60 years ago. According to the USS  Murphy History Project, the warship’s tragic and triumphant story reads “like a chronicle of...

2 Read / Add Comments A man wanted in Connecticut for a sexual assault was nabbed by officers in the Hudson Valley. Luis Ixim-Coc, 21, was located and arrested by members of the Dutchess Count Sheriff’s Office’s Special Operations Division on Tuesday, Dec. 22, at an apartment in the Village of Millerton. Ixim-Coc was wanted on a warrant from Fairfield County Superior Court in Connecticut, and on felony sexual assault charges out of the town of Danbur , sai...

History Book Lessons: First "Spy Satellites" Were Civil War Balloons On June 16, 1861, at the invitation of the War Department, Lowe ascended in Enterprise 500 feet above the capital, telegraphing U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the White House: “This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter." Heres What You Need To Remember: The principles behind balloon observation endured - even though the practice itself was criminally underused by the Union Army. A week after...

A man wanted in Connecticut for a sexual assault was nabbed by officers in the Hudson Valley.Luis Ixim-Coc, 21, was located and arrested by members of the Dutchess Count Sheriff’s Office’s Special Operations Division on Tuesday...

A man wanted in Connecticut for a sexual assault was nabbed by officers in the Hudson Valley.Luis Ixim-Coc, 21, was located and arrested by members of the Dutchess Count Sheriff’s Office’s Special Operations Division on Tuesday...

A man wanted in Connecticut for a sexual assault was nabbed by officers in the Hudson Valley.Luis Ixim-Coc, 21, was located and arrested by members of the Dutchess Count Sheriff’s Office’s Special Operations Division on Tuesday...

LONDON – With the world in constant evolution and experimentation of new technologies, people began to move en masse around the globe in the 90s. And what was the best way to get around? Flying, the safest way to travel. In this great economic growth that has involved many continents, airlines also needed to update themselves, to keep up with the times, and to satisfy the customers’ requests, which were becoming more and more demanding of two things: greater comfort and greater safety. We...

Mr Grant Gordon was also major supporter of piping although he was not a piper himself.   He was the personal sponsor of countless piping competitions and causes for more than 50 years, among them the Glenfiddich Championships, the Silver Chanter, the Captain John A MacLellan Memorial Medal, and the Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping.  He had a personal devotion to Scottish culture and piping in particular.  While many piping events were aligned with his various...

When, shortly before 9:00 p.m. on the night of December 29, 1980, Vickie Landrum, her grandson, Colby, and Betty Cash exited the restaurant where they had just eaten a fine Texan dinner, they couldn’t imagine what was just around the corner. As they headed towards the town of Huffman, Texas, they were terrified by the sudden sight of an unknown object in the sky. Worse, it was descending on a flight-path guaranteed to ensure it landed on the road they were on.  As they got closer, they could...

Botoxchronicmigraine.com to enroll. im in myrtle beach, south carolina. our coverage of hurricane florence continues with reporters up and down the coast. we have been watching north carolina get it since yesterday, actually and it continues. the eye of the storm is over wilmington, north carolina. the storm came ashore about 7:30 this morning. it is doing a lot of damage in north carolina, probably close to a half million clients without power in that state. there are people without power in ...