Five cannon that were once used by Blackbeard to terrorize the Atlantic shipping lanes have been recovered from a wreck that belonged to the notorious pirate. The cannon, one weighing 3,000lb, are the ...

In January 2011, Rick Allen lost his left arm below the elbow and suffered second- and third-degree burns after a scuba tank exploded and caught fire in his garage. He spent three months in the ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is wrestling with a modern-day dispute involving the pirate Blackbeard's ship that went down off North Carolina's coast more than 300 years ago. The justices on Tuesday ...

Rick Allen has plunged to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to photograph and videotape the salvaging of Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's ship that sank off the North Carolina coast 300 years ago.

He was an ogre, tall, bloodthirsty, strong, with a booming voice, a savage appetite and a bushy black beard that hung down to his belly. Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, was one of history's most ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. (AP) – Blackbeard’s ship has surrendered more of its historical treasures. The Daily News of Jacksonville reports ( http://bit.ly/16ly23N) that two ...

BEAUFORT, North Carolina (Reuters) - Nearly three centuries ago, the notorious pirate Blackbeard ran aground in his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, off what is now a North Carolina beach town. Sign up ...

BEAUFORT — Blackbeard's ship has surrendered more of its historical treasures. The Daily News of Jacksonville reports that two cannons have been raised from the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge off ...

Johnny Depp, it turns out, has led us astray. The real pirates of the Caribbean were actually bloodthirsty and terrifyingly violent, the Telegraph reports. Marine archeologists have been sifting ...