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West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 25th

By ALICIA CHANGAP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year's monstrous tsunami off Japan's coast. Armed with index-size cards, beachcombers will log

West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 25th

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The West Coast this winter is bracing for more sightings of debris washed away by the Japan tsunami. Last year's disaster swept about 5 million tons of debris into the Pacific. Most of that sank. No one knows how much tsunami debris is still adrift. Flotsam has already washed

West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 25th

Tsunami debris team reaches dock on Wash. coast

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

FORKS, Wash. (AP) - Hiking over primitive coastal trails, a team reached a dock that apparently floated from Japan after last year's tsunami and just washed ashore on a Washington beach, and an official said the group found Japanese writing inside the structure. The team of tsunami debris

Weather prevents dock inspection on Wash. coast

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 20th

By DOUG ESSERAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) - A dock that apparently was ripped away from Japanese waters by a tsunami and drifted for more than a year and a half has washed ashore on one of the most remote beaches on the U.S. West Coast. It was spotted Tuesday by the Coast Guard on Washington's

Families fear Sandy killed cottages, traditions

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 11th

By By KATIE ZEZIMAAssociated Press BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) - The small yellow cottage has always been more than a house to Bob Bratek and his family. It was their tiny slice of oceanfront heaven, a repository of family memories built in the '60s with the hands of three generations of Brateks

Port strike could be prelude for dockworker talks

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By MICHAEL R. BLOODAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The end of one labor crisis at the nation's busiest port complex could be a prelude to another. The resolution of an eight-day walk-off by clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors that stalled billions of dollars of

LA ports reopen after crippling 8-day strike ends

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By JOHN ROGERSAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Port clerks returned to work Wednesday, jubilant in the knowledge that an eight-day strike that paralyzed the nation's busiest shipping complex had won them - at least for now - guarantees that their jobs won't be outsourced to China

Man calls 14-foot canoe on Boston Harbor his home

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By BRIDGET MURPHYAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - Michael Richard Smith is a man without a fixed address, someone who leaves it to the wind and tide in Boston Harbor to help decide where he'll dream from night to night. With his possessions packed in a 14-foot canoe, the wiry, mustachioed

Employers: LA port workers to return Wednesday

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By JOHN ROGERSAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Negotiators reached an agreement late Tuesday to end an eight-day strike that crippled the nation's largest port complex and prevented shippers from delivering billions of dollars in cargo to warehouses and distribution centers across the