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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A stroll along the Texas coastline may provide you with sights of sargassum seaweed, but on rare occasions, beachgoers have stumbled upon cargo from a World War II-era shipwreck that continues to occasionally float ashore.Visitors at Mustang Island State Park, outside of Corpus Christi, Texas, are the latest to discover one of the unassuming bales that were washed ashore by the currents of the Gulf of Mexico.A park ranger took to the site’s social media to show off the discovery and to point out that there is always the chance of something more substantial than a seashell or a patch of seaweed on the sand.According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, it is running off the assumption the bale is tied to similar discoveries over the years across the Gulf Coast as well as Central and South America.March 30, 2022: A mass of rubber washed ashore South Texas (Padre Island National Seashore / FOX Weather) Jace Tunnell, a reserve director at the University of Texas’s Marine Science Institute, has studied several of these sightings and previously tied occurrences to an old shipwreck off of Brazil."These are folded rubber mats that have been put together and then wrapped again with a big one. And so, these are actually thought to be from a 1944 ship," Tunnel previously stated in a video for the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve.

FREDERICK, Md. – A Navy medic who shot and wounded two U.S. sailors before he was killed by police on a nearby Army base was assigned to a Naval medical research center in Maryland for nearly two years, according to his service record.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The Texas A&M Task Force 1 has released a video of three people being rescued from a sinking vessel at a marina in Corpus Christi, Texas, as Hurricane Hanna hit the area on Saturday, July 25. The rescue was carried out at the request of the US Coast Guard and the Corpus Christi Fire Department.The rescue was carried out using an inflatable Zodiac rescue boat on Marina Del Sol, according to Texas A&M Task Force 1.Two people in their 80s and a 40-year-old boat owner were rescued as the vessel sank in rough waters and 65 mph winds, officials said.SIGN UP FOR FOX 7 AUSTIN EMAIL ALERTSNWS Corpus Christi via StoryfulDOWNLOAD THE FOX 7 AUSTIN NEWS APPAdvertisementHanna, now a tropical storm, made landfall twice as a

MIAMI, Fla. - A gulf depression strengthened into a tropical storm late Thursday, triggering watches and warnings along the southern coast of the continental United States.  Tropical Storm Hanna was the earliest eighth Atlantic named storm on record, breaking the previous record of Harvey in 2005. Hanna was located 385 miles (620 kilometers) east, southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, according to the 10 p.m.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – An armed person wounded a sailor at a Texas naval air station Thursday before being killed by security forces, officials said.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Officials say an active shooter has been “neutralized” at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.