KITTY HAWK, N.C. - Hurricane Earl flooded roads and left thousands of people without power along North Carolinaís coastline on Friday morning, but the weakening storm seemed to have passed without inflicting any serious harm as it churned north through the Atlantic.
HOUMA, La. - The fire that engulfed an oil and gas platform Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico heightened pressure on the energy industry, which is battling greater regulation and a deep-water drilling ban.
Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, recently sold its 83-foot sardine carrier Jacob Pike to Jamie Steeves, who owns J&J Lobsters in Rockland with his fiancée, Joanne Campbell. Steeves will repair and maintain the historic boat in Rockland, near where it was built.
The Jacob Pike was built in 1949 by Newbert and Wallace in Thomaston, Maine, and worked between Gloucester, Mass., and the Canadian Maritimes, taking sardines from fishing boats and delivering them to canneries. In 2007, years after her retirement, she was given to Penobscot Marine Museum, which used her as a working exhibit of Penobscot Bay's fishing and boatbuilding industries.
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