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Court Docs Detail Tragic Final Moments From Costa Concordia Victims

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 03.06.2013 | World

Sixty pages of court documents presented by the prosecution to an Italian court earlier this week have revealed new details about the final moments of...

Costa Concordia Captain Wants To Command Ships Again

AP | Posted 01.30.2013 | World

ROME -- The captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia has returned to court to contest his firing, and says he'll "certainly" take command of a ship ...

Top 10 PR Blunders of 2012

Rich Robinson | Posted 02.17.2013 | Media
Rich Robinson

If we're talking about the biggest PR blunders of 2012, than the list is the exclusive purview of the Republican Party and its standard-bearer, Willard "Mitt" Romney.

Costa Concordia Captain Claims Book Will Reveal 'Shocking Truth'

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2012 | World

Captain Francesco Schettino gained infamy in January after abandoning his cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, when it sank off the Tuscan island of Gigl...

Costa Concordia Captain In Court

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 12.15.2012 | Travel

GROSSETO, Italy -- A theater in Italy turned into a courtroom Monday, providing extra space for all those who needed to hear the evidence against the ...

Experts Fault Captain & Crew In Costa Disaster

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 09.13.2012 | Travel

ROME -- Court-appointed experts have pointed the finger of blame primarily at the captain of a cruise ship that ran aground off Italy, but also faulte...

Concordia Captain Makes Shocking Revelations

AP | By FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 09.09.2012 | World

ROME -- The captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he was distracted by a phone conversation shortly b...

Costa Captain Credits 'Divine Hand' During Disaster

Posted 07.06.2012 | Travel

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia, claims that "a divine hand surely touched my head," sparing further catastrophe when h...

'Very Strange' Test Results For Costa Concordia Captain

AP | By FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 04.19.2012 | World

ROME -- Lawyers for survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship on Saturday pressed for new drug tests on the ship's captain after traces of...

Costa Concordia Video Shows Crew Reactions To Cruise Crash

Posted 02.14.2012 | World

Previously unseen footage inside the Costa Concordia cruise ship released on Italian TV shows crew reactions to the ship's imminent sinking. In the vi...

Italy Keeps Costa Concordia Captain Under House Arrest

AP | Posted 04.08.2012 | World

ROME — An Italian court refused Tuesday to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship tha...

Italy Keeps Costa Concordia Captain Under House Arrest

AP | Posted 04.08.2012 | World

ROME — An Italian court refused Tuesday to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship tha...

Frying Pans Help Save Trapped Costa Concordia Officer

Posted 02.01.2012 | World

The last person to be rescued from the Costa Concordia shipwreck is sharing the details of his dramatic rescue, telling reporters he caught the attent...

RNC Chair Hit By Predecessor For Obama Comparison

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.31.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The White House is criticizing comments by the Republican National Committee chairman comparing President Barack Obama to the Italian cr...

DNC Chief Accuses RNC Chair Of 'Incendiary' Obama Comparison

Posted 01.30.2012 | Politics

RNC chief Reince Preibus' recent comparison of President Barack Obama to the disgraced Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which hit ...

Cruise Captain Denies Delaying Alarm

Reuters | Posted 03.22.2012 | World

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which struck a rock and capsized off Italy, told magistrates he in...

Must The Captain Go Down With The Ship?

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 03.20.2012 | World

STOCKHOLM — Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship. But is it realistic to expect skippers to suppres...

Titanic Theme Played As Costa Concordia Hit Rocks

Posted 01.18.2012 | Travel

It was the height of irony as the Costa Concordia started going down. A passenger has revealed that the Celine Dion song "My Heart Will Go On," mad...

Costa Concordia Captain's Excuse: 'I Tripped'

Posted 01.18.2012 | World

Having had a long weekend to mull it over, one might think the captain of the Costa Concordia would be able to come up with a better alibi. However...

Survivors Of Sinking Cruise Ship Recount Horrifying Scenes

Posted 01.17.2012 | World

The old adage says that the captain goes down with his ship, but in the case of the Costa Concordia, survivor accounts allege that Captain Francesco S...

LISTEN: Cruise Ship Captain Makes Excuses To Coast Guard During Evacuation

Posted 01.17.2012 | World

A recording of a telephone conversation between Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, and Gregorio De Falco, a captain ...

Captain Placed Under House Arrest

Posted 01.17.2012 | World

The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia, which sunk off the coast of Italy on Friday, will be placed under house arrest pending any trial, accord...

Transcript: Cruise Ship Captain Argues With Italian Coast Guard Over Abandoning Ship

AP | Posted 01.17.2012 | World

By The Associated Press -- Here is a translation of the transcript of the conversation between Capt. Francesco Schettino, commander of the grounde...

Husband Sacrifices Life Jacket For Wife, Disappears Into Water After Cruise Ship Sinks

Posted 01.16.2012 | Impact

He did what any husband would have done for his wife. As the Costa Concordia cruise ship went down off the west coast of Italy Jan. 13, Nicole Serv...

Report: Captain Of Ship Arrested

CNN | Posted 01.14.2012 | World

The Italian captain of the cruise ship that ran aground -- killing three people and injuring 20 more -- was arrested late Saturday and is being inves...