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When the fog finally burned off on Friday, Santa Cruzans were surprised by what they saw.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, when they are expected to name the sole finalist to be the system's next chancellor.

UPDATE >> One of the largest warships in the world is about five miles off Santa Cruz.

For the first time, the U.S. Navy is looking to purchase diesel and jet fuel that is blended with at least 37 million gallons of biofuels to help it reach its goal of getting half its energy from alternative power sources.

The USS Coronado underway in April 2014. The Coronado will test-launch the Norwegian-built Naval Strike Missile later this year off the coast of California.

INDIANAPOLIS Amanda Banks, wife of Sen. Jim Banks, R-Columbia City, announced Thursday she will run to fill her husband's vacancy in the Indiana Senate while he is deployed to Afghanistan during the 2015 legislative session.

Having failed to get a response to a series of questions he posed recently to the nation's Secretary of Homeland Security, Senator David Vitter says he has had to "dig around" to find out how Louisiana is being impacted by the surge of children from Central America crossing the U.S. border.

The Navy designed littoral combat ships to have smaller crews and lower costs than other vessels, but a Government Accountability Office report earlier this month said they each cost about $79 million to operate annually.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, left, speaks to the USS Independence's captain, Cmdr. Joseph Gagliano, on board the ship in waters off Honolulu on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

In this July 4, 1988 file photo, people looking for family members walk amid bodies of victims from Iran Air Flight 655 in a morgue in Bandar Abbas, Iran, a day after the plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf by the guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes while the plane was still in Iranian airspace.

The Army's vice chief of staff, Gen. John Campbell, was confirmed Wednesday as the next commander for NATO's International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan.

The suspect accused of stabbing another sailor at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center in June was formally charged by the Navy on Wednesday.

U.S. Navy photo/Adam Skoczylas Rear Adm. Paul Sohl, left, presents the Adm. Stanley R. Arthur Award for Logistics Excellence to Marine Corps Lt.

U.S. Navy veteran and founder of Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project Kelly Carlisle at her quarter-acre farm at the Tassafaronga Park in East Oakland, Calif.

It met its end in July 1942 in the Gulf of Mexico, about 45 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, after a depth charge attack.

THE Royal Navy's next generation of submarine-hunting Merlin helicopters have entered service with the Royal Navy four months early.

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, center, arrives at court with his wife, Terry, and others, Tuesday, July 22, 2014 in St. Paul, Minn.

A sailor who fell from a sixth-floor balcony after getting into a fight at Norfolk Naval Station on Tuesday evening has died, a Navy spokesman has confirmed.

Incoming Naval Academy superintendent Rear Adm. Ted Carter, left, takes the oath of office administered by Chief of Naval Operations Adm.

Carter was recently president of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.