Sea search for pair is called off
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The search for two people last seen on a makeshift raft in the sea near Hastings pier is called off for the night.
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Rough seas halted search efforts Sunday for hundreds of people still missing in Indonesia's latest tsunami, and a powerful quake raised fears of another killer wave.
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Hunt for man believed to have absconded from control order on June 18.
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FASLANE, Scotland (CP) - The homeward voyage of Canada's crippled submarine has been delayed by bad weather in Scotland.
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The Coast Guard planned to call off its search early Thursday for an acclaimed computer scientist whose sailboat has disappeared off Northern California.
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Millis police said the search will now be scaled back with investigators concentrating on specific leads. Hundreds of volunteers -- including dive crews -- have been searching the last few days for Andrew Grant, 15.
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A group that had been fruitlessly searching at sea for missing California scientist Jim Gray has officially called off its search.  The Los Angeles Times said the group, made up of Gray's friends, had joined the U.S.
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A search is under way for a man who is thought to have been swept overboard in the North Sea.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, Nfld. - Officials have shut down a drilling rig at the Terra Nova offshore oil project following another oil spill Thursday morning.
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A search is under way after reports that two divers are missing off the Pembrokeshire coast.
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The California-Southern Miss football game scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed because of Hurricane Ivan. USM athletic officials had hoped to wait until Tuesday
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Japan has cut short its annual whaling expedition, which was dogged by environmental protests, after a ship was badly damaged by fire, officials said Wednesday.
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The Philippines is likely to call off the search for bodies from a sunken passenger ferry after military divers found no corpses in the hull, an army official said on Sunday.
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PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut (CP) - Bad weather forced helicopters and ground searchers to call off efforts Monday night to locate two soldiers missing in the rugged, mountainous tundra of Baffin Island.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been dropped, a top Japan official says.
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By Bob Lamb, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 14--Ice fishing has been put on hold due to warm temperatures and treacherous ice conditions. Ice fishermen were out in full force through last weekend, but the recent warming trend has eroded ice.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.