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The Coast Guard says a 61-year-old man has died while in the water near the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in North Carolina.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says international officials are working out ways to avoid gaps in air traffic control over the Atlantic Ocean.

The reason One state official said he can only guess that budget writers were grabbing money from wherever it could be found to balance the budget.

Get breaking news and daily headlines. Browse all e-mail newsletters ** NO SALES ** In this photo released by Brazil's Navy, pieces of debris of the Air France Flight 447 are seen on the Brazil's navy ship Caboclo, at the port of Recife, Brazil, Friday, June 19, 2009.

Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 3:02 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 3:02 p.m. Bald Head Island It's only 6 feet, about the length of a good-sized beach towel.

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty .

In this photo released by Brazil's Navy, a Brazilian Navy diver stands on a piece of debris of the Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean, Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Workers unload debris, belonging to crashed Air France flight AF447, from the Brazilian Navy's Constitution Frigate in the port of Recife, northeast of Brazil, Sunday, June 14, 2009.

This photo released Wednesday June 17, 2009 by the French army shows soldiers approaching a piece of debris believed to be part of Air France flight 447, during continuing searches for debris and bodies on Friday June 12, 2009 in the Atlantic Ocean.

A burst of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert says.

Published: Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 12, 2009 at 8:37 p.m. On an unknown day sometime about 1545, an acorn fell from an oak tree near the bank of present-day Bradley Creek.

A Brazilian ship recovered three more bodies from the Atlantic as searchers said weather and currents complicated their job and warned it is unlikely that all the dead from Air France Flight 447 will be found.

This image dated June 8, 2005, released by French marine institute Ifremer, on Friday June 5, 2009, shows the unmanned submarine Victor 6000 at an undisclosed location.

The agency investigating the crash of Flight 447 says Air France had not replaced instruments that measure air speed on the plane, which the manufacturer had recommended.

Investigators trying to determine why Air France Flight 447 broke apart in a violent storm over the Atlantic are looking at the possibility that speed sensors _ or an external instrument key to collecting speed data _ failed in unusual weather, two aviation industry officials said Thursday.

Relatives Air France Flight 447's passengers await news at the Tom Jobim Airport in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

Nearly two dozen sea turtles were released into the waters of the Atlantic after being nursed back to health at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center.

An Air France jet with 228 people on a flight to Paris vanished over the Atlantic Ocean after flying into towering thunderstorms and sending an automated message that the electrical system had failed.

An Air France jet with 228 people on a flight to Paris vanished over the Atlantic Ocean after flying into towering thunderstorms and sending an automated message that the electrical system had failed.

Bill Read said this year, people who go to the hurricane center's Web site to track an approaching storm won't see that line, just a graphic that shows a cone representing the projected path of its center.