Federal Judge Halts Sale of Titanic Artifacts

A ‘wrecked’ sale? An Atlanta-based company that salvaged 100 artifacts from the Titanic shipwreck decades ago has been banned from auctioning them, a federal judge ruled Monday, according to The New York Times.Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, upheld a 2011 ban on the sale of artifacts recovered by the R.M.S. Titanic Inc., a company previously authorized to salvage and exhibit items from the Titanic shipwreck. Smith said she has jurisdiction o