Zumwalt at shipyard after 3 days at sea
BATH (AP) — The Navy’s stealthy Zumwalt has completed its builder trials and is back at Bath Iron Works.
The 600-foot destroyer that’s due to be delivered to the Navy next month for acceptance trials spent three days in the North Atlantic before returning to the shipyard late Thursday afternoon.
More than 200 shipyard employees and Navy personnel participated in the outing aimed at ensuring everything is shipshape for Navy inspection.
The Zumwalt is the first in a class of three destroyers, all of which are being built in Bath. Shipyard spokesman Matt Wickenheiser says the company is pleased with the ship’s performance.
After the Navy takes delivery, there will be further assessments, including rough-weather tests to determine the ship’s operating parameters. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned in October in Baltimore.
Feds offer relief to former students
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education says more students who were defrauded by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges can get their loans forgiven.
Students who were defrauded at 91 campuses operating as Everest or WyoTech in 20 states can now apply for forgiveness through the department’s website.
Education Secretary John B. King Jr. made the announcement on Friday in Boston with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Healey helped uncover evidence that two Everest Institute campuses in Massachusetts misrepresented job placement rates.
Corinthian, a former chain of for-profit colleges, sold or closed its schools last year amid fraud allegations. The education department says it has found fraud at more than 100 campuses.
The department has already approved loan discharges for more than 8,800 former students.
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