A Thousand Oaks man has been sentenced to four months incarceration and three years of probation for a 2010 drunken cruise ship prank. Rick Ehlert, a 45-year-old businessman, pleaded guilty last year to dropping the 18-ton stern anchor of the MS Ryndam - a Holland America cruise ship - bringing the vessel traveling at 18 knots to a halt. more ›

Robert McGill, a 57-year-old teacher from Los Angeles, was sentenced to life in prison today by a federal judge for the 2009 murder of his wife during a cruise to Cabo San Lucas. High school sweethearts, the couple had embarked on a five-day Mexican cruise aboard a Carnival Elation ship to celebrate McGill's 55th birthday when he apparently snapped. more ›

"If you build it, they will come," right? Or, in the case of Royal Caribbean's fifth of five in its Voyager Class of cruise ships, Mariner of the Seas, if you make the port accommodate it, they will come. And come they did. more ›