Columnist Michael Patrick Shiels explores what life at sea is like for the staff of Crystal Cruises' Serenity.

State transportation officials said they are working on strategies to protect the two bridges over the Chesapeake Bay ...

After the Key Bridge collapsed, a colleague of Michael Shields emailed him asking what he thought the chances of it happening actually were and what the chances were of it happening elsewhere.

A new study compiled by Johns Hopkins University and led by Dr. Michael Shields shows vulnerabilities among U.S. bridges. "It (Francis Scott Key Bridge) wasn't an aberration," Shields said.

In results released Monday, researchers found that the risk is “pretty substantial” that another ship could crash into one of the nation’s other bridges, said Michael Shields, an associate ...

“We have dramatically underestimated the risk that large ships pose to bridges across the country,” said Michael Shields, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins who led the study. After ...

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Editor's Note: The original version of the story identified the Johns Hopkins researcher as Michael Fields. The correct name is Michael Shields.