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According to Oklahoma Highway Patrol, US-59 south of Sallisaw is shut down after a barge struck a bridge at the Kerr Reservoir

 .inad{min-height:250px}.inad:before{content: "Advertisement";font-size: 11px;line-height: 11px;display: block}   SHARE:FacebookTwitter What better way to keep a soldier at his best than to keep him happy?In 1933, the 21st Amendment saw America out of Prohibition and brought the legal sale of alcohol back to the country. Less than a decade later, the country was pulled into the grips of World War II and found itself fighting side-by-side with an ally who had quite different ideas about drinking.Though American marketing and industry nomenclature sing the praises of German- and Belgian-style beer, Great Britain has maintained a strong brewing culture since before the Romans arrived on...

AS the rest of Australia rolled out its New Year’s Eve celebrations, thousands were evacuated from a beach on the NSW Central Coast after a fireworks barge caught on fire during NYE celebrations. The barge caught fire during the 9pm fireworks at Terrigal. Two pyrotechnicians were forced to jump off a fireworks barge on the NSW Central Coast and suffered minor injuries after a NYE display went horribly wrong. Crowds were evacuated from the Terrigal beach after the barge caught fire just minutes into the New Year’s Eve fireworks show shortly after 9pm. NSW Fire and Rescue said the two...

This could blow up in her face! Hillary Clinton may have lit the fuse for her victory celebration a little too soon — by planning an Election Night explosion of fireworks over the Hudson River, The Post has learned. Law-enforcement officials and the FDNY have been told to prepare for a barge-launched pyrotechnic display off of Manhattan’s Javits Center, where Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine will join their supporters for the Nov. 8 vote count, sources said.

The ‘McBarge,’ a floating McDonald’s abandoned for nearly 30 years, is set for a secret Super Size makeover. The restaurant, which cost almost $9 million to build, was originally part of Expo 86, a World’s Fair held in Vancouver in 1986. The original plan for the barge was to move it to a new location after the expo ended. However, the restaurant lost its novelty and was abandoned. The site, formerly known as Friendship 500, is only accessible by boat. Photos of the structure shared on Reddit last week went viral, resurfacing national interest in the barge. Howard Meakin, president...

After hanging out in storage for over a decade, the Deep Space Climate Observatory is finally being launched to monitor solar storms. The satellite is getting into space on the back of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which means we're also counting down to another historic barge landing attempt! Top image: SpaceX's autonomous drone barge has been repaired since the crash on the first attempt, and been decorated with a spiffy new name. Credit: SpaceX The launch is scheduled for 6:10:12 p.m. EST out of Cape Canaveral Complex 40 launch pad in Florida. The weather is looking great with 90%...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —Never mind rocket launches -- the first rocket landing in Space Coast history is a couple of weeks away, if things work out. SpaceX is expected to announce this week that the company is bringing in a revolutionary ocean-going landing pad for its next launch. Looking down the side of the SpaceX rocket, there are landing legs sticking out, and a set of fins – that look a little like tennis racquets – pop out. They’ll guide the rocket as it flies backwards – down, not up – to a perfectly placed landing at the test site....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The residents of Nome, Alaska, could be looking at a very costly winter: $9-a-gallon gasoline. The coastal city of more than 3,500 residents that is known for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is iced-in, and a massive winter storm this month prevented a barge that usually carries fuel from getting to shore...

CAMAS, Wash. -- The Coast Guard has requested $3.5 million to clean up oil leaking from a derelict barge on the Columbia River near Camas in southwest Washington. The Columbian reports the money comes from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, created by a federal tax on petroleum products. The 431-foot Davy Crockett is a World War II Liberty ship that was converted to a barge and has been beached for years for scrapping. The Coast Guard took control of the vessel last week, after a sheen of oil was spotted in the river. Now more than 60 people from...

Roman barge under Cologne to reveal shipping history Posted : Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:08:05 GMT Cologne, Germany - Excited archaeologists are raising part of a Roman barge that sank near the wharf nearly 2,000 years ago in the German riverside city of Cologne. Cologne, which derives its modern name from the town's Latin name, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, is full of Roman remains including a largely intact aqueduct. But the oaken boat, found 12 metres below the surface during excavations a few days ago for an underground mass-transit line, is something special, offering scientists a new window into life...

Coast Guard tracking abandonded Russian barge adrift near Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 9/20/06 Juneau, Alaska The Coast Guard is monitoring what appears to be an abandoned coal barge approximately 200-feet in length located nearly 60 miles southeast of the Kenai Peninsula. It was initially spotted in May, drifting 250 miles south of the Aleutian chain. There are no markings on the barge to indicate a port or country of origin. The only markings on the barge are "CTP 424," located approximately 20-feet aft on the port and starboard sides, and a Russian class society load line along the waterline. The barge...

Daphne Lee-Larson said goodbye to her house Sunday morning. Actually, she wished it a bon voyage. She was looking up at the second-floor bedroom window of 3218 Eastlake Ave. E. and remembered how she and her husband once had to climb up to it on a ladder when it was bedtime because they were having the ground floor resanded. 3218 Eastlake Ave. E., though, was no longer on Eastlake Avenue East. The yellow, 3,000- square-foot house had been lifted and then rolled on a dolly with wheels as big as airplane tires from the spot where it had sat since...

The 950' container ship New Delhi Express has grounded at the entrance to Port Elizabeth in NY harbor. She is listing heavily to her starboard and her draft has increased from 35' to 44' since striking the edge of the ship channel at Bergen Point. No news organizations covering this yet.

The conspiracy kooks are coming out of the woodwork in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. According to information "obtained" by radio show host Hal Turner, divers have uncovered evidence that explosives were used to break the 17th Street Canal levee in New Orleans. Also, according to an article by kook extraordinaire Ernesto Cienfuegos, this was accomplished by federal agents or military personnel who ended up in a firefight with New Orleans police.

Hurricane Force Anatomy of a Flood: 3 Deadly Waves Canal, 2 Lakes Swamped Eastern New Orleans As Storm Tore Through Mr. Mullet's Fight to Survive By JEFF D. OPDYKE, EVAN PEREZ and ANN CARRNS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 7, 2005; Page A1 NEW ORLEANS -- On Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina brought chaos to this city, three massive waves of water poured largely unseen into the eastern section of town and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. One surged west, off a churning Lake Borgne. Another came across from Lake Pontchartrain in the north. That sent a steel...

/begin my summary3 N. Koreans, presumed to be a family, defected at Baek-ryong island[Yonhap News, 2005/06/26] Around 9:55 am on June 26, 2.9 miles away to the North East of Baek-ryong Island, a N. Korean barge indicated the willingness to defect. It was towed to Yong-ki-po Harbor at Baek-ryong Island at 11:40 am, according to the (S. Korean) Joint Chief of Staffs. Inside the boat were Mr. Hong(male, age:42), Mr. Moon(female, age:39), a 15-year-old boy. They are presumed to be a family. They reportedly left Yong-hyun, Ku-mi-po District, N. Korea.around 5:30 am, June 25. The barge is an 1.7-ton boat...

Jan 19, 2005 4:57 pm US/Central CHICAGO (CBS 2) A violent explosion has ripped through a barge that was floating freely on the sanitarian ship canal just east of Cicero Avenue overpass on the Southwest Side. The back half of the barge was consumed by fire. Initial reports indicate that it was a petroleum barge. Additional debris from the explosion has been blown quite a distance onto the Cicero Avenue bridge. Police worked to close the bridge and clear it rush-hour traffic...

barge offloading gasoline at an oil depot in Staten Island exploded with earthquake force yesterday, shaking businesses, homes and nerves for miles around as towering black smoke spread a pall over much of New York City. Two barge crewmen were killed and a depot worker on shore was critically burned. Swift work by firefighters prevented flames from igniting any of the scores of petroleum storage tanks that dot the industrial landscape nearby. And while the cause of the explosion was still under investigation, the authorities said that it appeared to be an accident, not the work of terrorists. Investigators said...

U.S. fugitive was hitting on local women 'He probably thought ... we wouldn't notice, but we noticed' OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- A man wanted by the FBI for impersonating a U.S. special forces captain at a fatal interstate bridge collapse in Oklahoma strutted around the small Georgian Bay community of Tobermory for three days before his arrest this weekend, says the woman who turned him in to provincial police. Carla Watson, who telephoned police early Sunday to tell them about the fugitive's whereabouts, said yesterday that William Clark may have been on the run, but he was certainly not...

OPP arrest fugitive wanted by FBI for allegedly posing as military official TOBERMORY, Ont. (CP) - The provincial police have arrested an American man wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he allegedly posed as a military official. Ontario Provincial Police arrested the man for fraud and theft-related charges early Sunday morning as he waited to board a ferry in Tobermory. U.S. officials have accused the man of posing as a military special forces captain and taking control of rescue efforts after a bridge collapsed on May 26 in Webbers Falls, Okla. Fourteen people died when a ship...