Raw Coast Guard Tows Disabled Lobster Boat

The Coast Guard says a Massachusetts-based lobster boat disabled 200 miles southeast of Nantucket is being towed to safety hopefully before a major winter storm hits the region The 77-foot boat is expected to reach the coast Saturday morning Dec 18

Bernie Dagenais On Dad Vail

Bernie Dagenais of the Philadelphia Business Journal talks about Philly s reconquest of the Dad Vail Regatta

Coast Guard Rescuing Stranded Lobster Boat

Coast Guard Rescuing Stranded Lobster Boat

Budget cuts slated for Rio Rancho

Rio Rancho employs around seven hundred people and most of the city budget-- about 78 percent-- goes to pay their salaries and benefits The city is projecting a shortfall of about three million dollars in its 50 million dollar budget and it s hard to make spending cuts without hitting paychecks

City manager James Jimenez is talking with employees and furloughs are a hot topic
If we have to go that direction should we do something like the state does where we dictate the days or would they prefer having more options to choose if they have to take an unpaid day it would be their discretion

Rio Rancho is in the same boat as Albuquerque and every other municipality in the state the lion s share of its money comes from the gross receipts tax on goods and services and in the recession people have less money so they re spending less money-- that s why furloughs may be on the way

Jimenez You know our goal is to avoid any kind of layoffs Our goal is to try not to reduce services to the taxpaying public but at the end of the day we have to have a balanced budget so there are some hard decisions that we are going to have to make over the next month

In mid-January Rio Rancho s mayor and city manager will go to the city council with a new budget that will cut back spending halfway through the budget year -- that s when we ll know if it s furloughs-- and how many there will have to be

Dad Vail Regatta May Reverse Its Course

The Dad Vail Regatta may not be leaving Philadelphia after all

Bayou La Batre boat fire

Bayou La Batre boat fire

Fresh charge in '05 deadly boat crash

Prosecutors have refiled charges against a Wisconsin man in connection with the death of a Michigan man in a 2005 boating crash

43-year-old Todd M Frisbie was charged this week with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle

Hopes for sailing gold

Lucy Macgregor is hoping to become British women s match racing contender at the Olympics in 2012

Boat Electronics Larceny Arrest

Truck slides down ramp into water

WEYMOUTH - A pickup truck had to be pulled out of the water near the Thomas C Smith Boat Launch in Weymouth on Wednesday

ABQ’s new mayor faces growing financial crisis

albuquerque s new mayor spends his first official day on the job -- amid growing gloom about the city s financial health
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05 06 pm stuart dyson is live downtown -- with more on the challenge confronting mayor richard berry stu it s a lot like the state s budget crisis - big bills to pay with taxpayer dollars that are coming in lower and slower as the great recession deepens - the city of albuquerque is in the same boat richard berry takes over as mayor in the worst economic crisis since the great depression - all the earlier fantasy-talk about new mexico avoiding the worst of it seems to have evaporated - along with thousands of jobs and hundreds of shut-down businesses berry says the city s revenue shortfall may be twice the size of what the previous administration predicted - a whopping 24 million dollars so we ve got some financial challenges - there s no question about tit - the good news is we re gonna get through it - we re gonna be fine in the long run - we re gonna have some tough decisions to make but
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05 07 pm i ve got a great team of financial people in the administration and we re gonna work with the council and we re gonna find our way through it city council president ike benton is looking ahead to the next budget year - and seeing more shortfall i ve heard anywhere from like you said - from 10 to 40 million - so we re gonna have to get down - figure out what those numbers really are gonna be - a certain amount of that is crystal-balling - what s gonna happen with gross receipts taxes - that s what we live and die by here the city gets most of its money from that tax on sales and services - and in the recession people have less money to spend on stuff - so taxes are down bigtime - city employees may feel the pain i don t want to be the one to say it - but i think they re gonna have to be - i imagine they re gonna be looking at a certain amount of furloughs - i mean everybody s looking at that nowadays - here at our office we re on a 32 hour work week - at our architect office nobo in the berry administration - nobody on the city council - wants to see furloughs or layoffs for city employees - but everybody knows the private sector
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05 08 pm - the business economy - is dealing with those things every single day - at city hall stuart dyson eyewitness news four

New boat launch in Lewiston

We know the boating season is over but the State Department of Environmental Conservation is getting an early start on next year

Man Accused Of Fleeing With Son In Boat Charged

A father accused of taking his 3-year-old son during a supervised visit and heading for Mexico in a sailboat has been charged with international parental kidnapping

Cancer-Striken Man Caught In Boat Battle

A Treasure Coast man dying of colon cancer is battling the owner of a Stuart boat dealer over what he calls a bait-and-switch tactic