Posted By: Times Editors
Posted On: 3:04 p.m. | October 29, 2014
A training vessel for the Mexican navy, the three-masted Barque “Cuauhtemoc,” sailed into the Port of Los Angeles on and has docked in San Pedro for a four-day stay. The historic vessel, with a crew of approximately 200 aboard is 297 feet long, weighs 1,800 tons and has a rigging height of 168 feet. She carries 23 sails with a maximum sail area of about half an acre. View Post»
Posted By: Bryan Chan
Posted On: 11:42 a.m. | October 29, 2014
In Wednesday's Pictures in the News, Orbital Sciences Corp.'s unmanned Antares rocket explodes shortly after takeoff at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. on Tuesday. No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort.
Pahoa, Hawaii: Lava flows in the open field below Cemetery Road on the Big Island of Hawaii. Dozens... View Post»
Posted By: Marc Martin
Posted On: 10:54 a.m. | October 28, 2014
Tuesday's Pictures in the News begins in Moscow, where Russian Geographic Society staff members carry the body of a 39,000-year-old baby mammoth is named Yuka, to put on display. Yuka was found four years ago in the Siberian permafrost and was between six and eleven years old when she died. View Post»
Posted By: Scott Harrison
Posted On: 12:19 a.m. | October 28, 2014
Driver Martha Sue McCown, 18, checks out damage after accident left the vehicle sitting on guard rail. View Post»