NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Titanic museums in the Smoky Mountains and Branson, Mo., have told the ship's story to 7 million visitors in the past six years. Now the attractions are marking the Titanic centennial by sponsoring a Coast Guard cutter to take 1.5 million rose petals to the North Atlantic s...

NEW YORK (AP) — An admission ticket to the launch of the Titanic and a first-class dinner menu for the ocean liner's first night at sea are among dozens of Titanic-related artifacts being auctioned this month, exactly 100 years after the ship struck an iceberg and sank. The Bonhams auction on Apri...

PARIS (AP) — The remains of the Titanic, under water for almost a century, are to fall under United Nations protection. UNESCO, the U.N. cultural and scientific agency, says the wreck of the famed ship will fall under a 2001 convention on protecting underwater cultural heritage on the 100th annive...

LONDON (AP) — As the Titanic was sinking in the North Atlantic, its more than 2,000 passengers and crew scrambling in the dark for lifeboats, a young man far away in Wales heard the ship's distress calls on his homemade radio. Arthur "Artie" Moore, one of the few people on Earth following the deve...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Among the graves of Fairview Lawn Cemetery, there is one that was a magnet for bouquets and weeping girls in the 1990s. The name on the tombstone: J. Dawson. Jack Dawson, you will recall, is the name of the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 film "Titanic...

ATLANTA (AP) — From the pitch-black depths 2½ miles beneath the North Atlantic, salvagers of the Titanic made a notable discovery when they located the personal effects of William Murdoch, the bridge officer who tried in vain to keep the doomed ship from colliding with an iceberg. The artifacts â...

Charges of conflict of interest resulted in the May resignation of Douglas Kuepers, a veteran member of the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport Commission.

Disappointment was apparent on faces of Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport Commission members and airport officials this summer as they dealt with the announcement that Delta Air Lines was planning to eventually discontinue its service to Brainerd and several other small market cities. The commission l...

The story that began on May 9, 2009, when Sherman Bernard Frederick was driving a southbound minivan on Crow Wing County Road 3 when his vehicle struck and killed the son of Kory and Becky Larson is the Brainerd Dispatch's Top 5 story.

Thomas Richard Erickson, 69, was accused of sexually abusing young boys over the past several decades at his Nisswa home in 2011. Erickson was charged Aug. 26 with one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.