ROME — Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean, in the government’s latest move to regulate their activities. An ordinance from ENAC’s western Sicilian office said the flights interfered with the Italian coast guard’s exclusive role in coordinating search […]
A baby girl only 12 hours old was medically evacuated via a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter from a hospital in Cleveland, Texas, Friday due to floods blocking the roads. The Coast Guard said it received the evacuation request at around 11:45 a.m. when the baby started having low oxygen levels while at Texas Emergency Hospital, […]
What an impactful week it’s been here on the quad, West Coast, Messed Coast™ readers. And by impactful, your humble correspondent refers to projectiles, water bottles, and fireworks at the “Camp Intifadas” along the West Coast, Messed Coast™. We’ve discovered a campus hero at UCLA. I’ve been asked to share a new tune to […]
The C-130 aircraft, call sign Teal 53, rolled down the airstrip at Joint Base Andrews — slowly at first, then quickly picking up speed. As the four Allison turboprop engines screamed, the transport aircraft suddenly lurched off the runway and shot skyward. The mission that day for Teal 53, part of the “Hurricane Hunters” of […]
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A stubborn fire at the end of a landmark wooden pier on the Southern California coast was contained early Friday, authorities said. The fire erupted at 3 p.m. Thursday on the seaward end of the pier in the city of Oceanside, north of San Diego. Firefighters pulled hoses down the 1,954-foot (596-meter) […]
The Coast Guard this week fired its senior military chaplain, only months after praising him as “instrumental in the upliftment of the U.S. Coast Guard’s spiritual and moral framework.” In a brief statement on Wednesday, the Coast Guard said it “permanently removed” Capt. Daniel Mode, chaplain of the Coast Guard, from his primary duty due […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden came under attack Thursday, officials said, the latest assault likely carried out by Yemen‘s Houthi rebels over Israel‘s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attack comes after the U.S. military said early Thursday an allied warship shot down a Houthi missile […]
While everyone is aware of the thousands of migrants that trek across Mexico on foot to get to America’s southern border, a group far less discussed are illegals who attempt to get into the country by sea. Smaller numbers of people may decide to take this route, but that doesn’t mean we should let down […]
The influx of illegal immigrants is causing chaos in some areas along the California coast, including some very upscale communities. Illegal immigrants are arriving in small boats and fleeing into communities on foot. San Diego native and videographer Jack Enright captured such an incident recently as he was out one morning at Marine Street Beach […]
Welcome to this week’s West Coast, Messed Coast™ report, where your humble correspondent reminds you that Gretna Green wasn’t just a spot in Scotland where randy, underage 18th-century couples dashed off to get hitched; it was also the name of the Brentwood street where O.J. Simpson nearly cut off the head of his ex-wife, […]
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