Island Breeze Special Features
- Mexican migrants sending more money home again
- The Associated Press
- The amount of money Mexican migrant workers sent home in 2011 increased by 6.86 percent over the year before, the first major rebound in remittances since the 2008 economic downturn, Mexico's central bank announced.
Remittances totaled just over $22... Full story
- Official: Mexican army sends more troops to west
- MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican government is sending thousands of additional troops to the violence-stricken western state of Michoacan, a military official said Thursday.
The official told The Associated Press that the first of some 4,000... Full story
- Whooping cranes guided by plane to stay in Ala.
- The Associated Press
- A conservation effort involving an ultralight plane leading endangered whooping cranes south for the winter has been forced to stop short of its Florida destination, with officials deciding Thursday to stay in Alabama.
Operation Migration has experi... Full story
- Inmate adds pig image to police cruiser decals
- MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.
On the 16-inch car door decals, made by prisoners in Windsor, o... Full story
- U.S. to lease waters off Mid-Atlantic for wind farms
- Timothy B. Wheeler / The Baltimore Sun
- Lighting Maryland homes with power from giant turbines off Ocean City moved closer to reality Thursday, as federal officials announced they are ready to lease vast areas along the Mid-Atlantic coast for wind farms.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar sai... Full story
- Whale caught head-to-tail in fishing nets off Maui
- HONOLULU (AP) — Federal officials are trying to free a whale caught in fishing nets off Hawaii.
The Coast Guard said Thursday it received a call from a charter boat reporting an adult male humpback whale was entangled in fishing nets from head... Full story
- Pew study: Facebook users get more than they give
- NEW YORK (AP) — The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though.
A new study out Friday found that the average user of the world's biggest online social network gets m... Full story
- Rare whooping crane dies after injury
- CAYUGA, Ind. (AP) — State wildlife officials say a rare whooping crane has died after being found with a broken leg near a western Indiana power plant.
An Indiana conservation officer found the federally endangered crane Monday at Duke Energy'... Full story
- Atlantic sturgeon declared endangered species
- BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal officials have declared the Atlantic sturgeon an endangered species, a decision that could lead to moves to protect its habitat along the East Coast. The prehistoric fish was once bountiful, but populations were deplete... Full story
- Bright light seen in Okla, Texas likely a meteor
- OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says a bright, streaking light seen in the skies over parts of Oklahoma and Texas likely was a meteor.
FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said late Wednesday the agency had received reports fro... Full story
