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John Norris drives a team of Siberian huskies down Fourth Avenue at the start of the Fur Rendezvous Open World Championship Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska. Mushers race a 24.8-mile course through the city for each of three straight days. (Photo: Marc Lester/The Anchorage Daily News/The Associated Press)
Japanese teen’s soccer ball found in Alaska after tsunami swept it out to sea
Retrieving a lost soccer ball is standard fare for many teenagers, but one Japanese schoolboy is getting his ball back all the way from Alaska, where it drifted following last year’s tsunami.
Misaki Murakami, 16, lost his house and all its contents when the massive waves of last March crushed his hometown of Rikuzentakata in Japan’s northeast.
But now, thanks to an observant beachcomber in the Gulf of Alaska, he is set to have his soccer ball returned to him, identified by the “good luck” messages scrawled on it by former schoolmates. (Photo: REUTERS/NOAA/David Baxter)
U.S. Coast Guard sinks Japanese ‘ghost ship’ off Alaska coast
The U.S. Coast Guard, firing repeated machine-gun blasts from one of its cutters, on Thursday scuttled an abandoned Japanese “ghost ship” that had been washed out to sea near Alaska by last year’s devastating tsunami.
The derelict fishing vessel Ryou-Un Maru, which posed a threat to other marine traffic, sank at about 6:15 p.m. local time (0215 GMT on Friday), nearly five hours after the Coast Guard first opened fire on the ship, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow told Reuters.
“It’s confirmed,” he said. “The vessel has been sunk and is no longer a navigational hazard in the area.” (Photos: U.S. Coast Guard handout/Reuters)
U.S. Coast Guard to sink Japanese ‘ghost ship’ adrift off Alaskan shores
An unmanned Japanese fishing vessel that was cast adrift following last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami has likely seen its last day as the U.S. Coast Guard makes plans to sink the vessel as it nears the shores of Alaska.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter vessel was en route to Japanese ship’s location Wednesday night and the rusted vessel could be sent to the bottom as early as Thursday. (Photos: U.S. Coast Guard/Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis/Reuters)
Barbara Kay: Love her or hate her, Palin changed feminism
‘Mama Grizzly’ is less interested in which sex folds more laundry or changes more diapers, and far more consumed by conservative, gender-neutral issues such as freer markets, lowered deficits and reduced government.
