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PHOTOS: Fleet Week Is Here

Posted 05.24.2012

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Some 6,000 sailors, marines and coast guardsman were shipped into New York City Wednesday for the beginning of Fleet Week, this year marking the 200th...

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Despicable: Princess Cruise Luxury Ship Sails Past Dying Fishermen -- A Parable For Our Times

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Concordia, Fishing Boat, Judy Meredith, Star Princess, US Coast Guard, Birdwatchers, Princess, Home News

Bird-watching luxury cruise passengers with high power binoculars spotted a fishing boat in distress and tried desperately to alert the captain of the...

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1 Dead, 3 Missing After Coast Guard Helicopter Crash

AP | MELISSA NELSON | Posted 04.29.2012

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MOBILE, Ala. — As divers searched the muddy bottom of Alabama's Mobile Bay, a salvage ship was dispatched Wednesday to the sunken wreckage of a ...

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A House in the Texas Hill Country Becomes a Home for a Vietnam War Veteran

Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Veterans Administration, Vietnam War, Bataan Death March, Japan, Audie L. Murphy Hospital, World War II, Vietnam War Veterans, Veterans, Austin Texas, Good News News

Fellow veterans gave this Coast Guard veteran the "welcome home" he didn't receive nearly 40 years ago and their wishes that, in Veterans Cove, he will finally find a safe and peaceful harbor.

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PHOTOS: Coast Guard Nabs 2 Tons Of Cocaine, 2,040 Pounds Of Pot

Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Coast Guard Seizures, Miami Narcotics News, U.S. Coast Guard, Video, Caribbean Narcotics Smuggling, Coast Guard Cocaine, War on Drugs, Narcotics, Coast Guard Drug Busts, Coast Guard Marijuana, Coast Guard Narcotics, Miami News

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has been kicking ass and taking drugs (so to speak) in the Caribbean sea this winter: crew members seized 4,000 pounds of...

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At 96, First Black Woman To Serve In U.S. Coast Guard Continues Fight For Civil Rights

White Plains Patch | Posted 02.17.2012

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An angry mob of white men charged into her house while her mother was cooking breakfast. They robbed the house and tossed out the freshly made meal af...

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Coast Guard Delivers Blood To Ailing Cruise Ship Passenger

AP | By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Blood, Cruises, Carnival Spirit, U.S. Coast Guard, Tripler Army Medical Center, Luke Braham, Travel News

HONOLULU -- An ailing Hawaii-bound cruise ship passenger received life-saving blood, thanks to a delivery from the U.S. Coast Guard. The woman, 67, n...

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Father And Daughter Survive Plane Crash En Route To Haiti Mission

AP | Posted 01.12.2012

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MIAMI -- The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of two Alabama residents whose single-engine plane splashed down in the Bahamas. According to the Co...

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U.S. Forces Rescue Another 6 Iranian Mariners

Reuters | Posted 03.11.2012

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(Adds details) WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Another six Iranian mariners have been rescued by American forces, this time in waters ...

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Woman Jumps From Cruise Ship; Search Suspended

AP | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Woman Jumps From Ship, U.S. Coast Guard, Cruise Death, Travel News, Celebrity Cruise, Celebrity Summit, Coast Guard, Travel News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. Coast Guard says it has suspended a search for a 30-year-old female bartender who worked aboard a cruise ship and ju...

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Always Ready? For Aging Coast Guard Fleet, Not So Much

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Video, U.S. Coast Guard, Baltimore, Cruise Ships, Federal Budget Deficit, Deepwater, Homeland Security, Great Lakes, 9/11, Offshore Patrol Cutter, Drug-Interdiction, Coast Guard, Coast-Guard-Cuts, Arctic, 2012-Spending-Levels, Politics News

BALTIMORE -- Cmdr. William Lane climbs down a steep ladder deep within the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear. Stepping over a pipe with paint blistered ...

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Stranded At Sea

AP | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Bahamas, U.S. Coast Guard, Fishermen, Miami News, Miami News

MIAMI -- Authorities say four fishermen spent five days stranded off the Bahamas without food or water before being rescued. U.S. Coast Guard officia...

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Coast Guard Cracks Down On Fat Boaters

Jocelyn Richard | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: U.S. Coast Guard, Too Fat to Boat, Aawpp, Obesity Epidemic, Average Assumed Weight Per Passenger, Video, Weird News News

Faced with a sink or swim situation this year as a result of America’s obesity epidemic, the U.S. Coast Guarded opted for another course of action t...

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Cuban Exile Groups Dabbling in Risky Business

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and GISELA SOLOMON | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: International Human Rights Day, U.S. Coast Guard, Cuban Exiles, Flotilla, Ramon Saul Sanchez, Fireworks, Havana, Miami News

MIAMI — A coalition of Cuban exile groups said Wednesday their plans to anchor a small flotilla off the coast of Havana and launch fireworks to ...

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Federal Report Released On BP Oil Spill

AP | HARRY R. WEBER and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.14.2011

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BP bears ultimate responsibility for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a key government panel said Wednesday in a report that assigns more...

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Marines Rescued After Ejection From Jet Fighter

AP | ROBERT JABLON and JULIE WATSON | Posted 10.11.2011

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SAN DIEGO — Two Marines who ejected from their crashing fighter jet spent four harrowing hours in the chilly Pacific Ocean, yelling and blowing ...

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Watch: Feds Seize Submarine With $180M of Cocaine

Posted 10.02.2011

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The U.S. coastguard intercepted a makeshift submarine carrying an estimated $180M of cocaine. The smugglers pulled the plug on the sub, but author...

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WATCH: Inside The Deadly Storm That Killed Two Sailors

The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Boaters Dead, Wingnuts Boaters, Chicago Boaters Missing, Chicago News, Mackinac Boaters Dead, Chicago Mackinac Race, Chicago Mackinac Island, Detroit, Wingnuts Boaters Missing, Chicago Boaters, Mackinac Island, US Coast Guard, Video, Chicago News

Usually, the sailboat race from Chicago's Navy Pier to Mackinac Island goes off without a hitch--but a storm that hit Lake Michigan during the 103rd a...

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Two Dead After Boat Capsizes In Chicago-Mackinac Race

AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 09.17.2011

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DETROIT -- Officials with the annual Chicago-to-Mackinac sailing race say two crew members of a boat that capsized in Lake Michigan are dead. A Cha...

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Coast Guard Calls Off Search For Missing Americans

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.13.2011

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UPDATE 7/14/11: The United States Coast Guard on Tuesday suspended its search for the seven missing Americans who were aboard the fishing vessel that ...

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Woman Survives 100-Foot Jump Off Bridge

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Peace Bridge Suicide Attempt, Peace Bridge, Buffalo Bridge Suicide Attempt, Buffalo, Suicide, Suicide Attempt, US Coast Guard, New York News

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Authorities say a woman apparently trying to commit suicide has survived a 100-foot plunge off the Buffalo, N.Y., bridge linking the...

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BP Reduces Its Gulf Disaster Bill By Settling With Partner

AP | JANE WARDELL | Posted 07.20.2011

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LONDON — BP has struck a deal to receive around $1 billion from one of its minority partners in the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes...

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Disney Cruise Ship Crewmember Reported Missing At Sea

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI -- A crewmember on a Disney cruise ship has been reported missing at sea off the western coast of Mexico. Disney Cruise Lines spokeswoman Chris...

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Gulf Beach Cleaning Slows Though Tar Remains

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Sea Turtles, Marshes, U.S. Coast Guard, Louisiana, Fish, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Birds, Grand Isle Port Commission, BP Oil Spill, Plaquemines Parish, Environmental Protection Agency., Gulf Restoration Network, Green News

Southeast Louisiana beach lovers -- upset about losing last summer's surf to the BP spill -- may be eager to grab a towel on the first, warm weekend and head down to Grand Isle. But some local observers feel the cleaning effort should continue.

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New Orleans Tap Water Beats Odds, Meets All Regulatory Standards

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Industrial Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Petrochemicals, Baton Rouge, U.S. Coast Guard, Lower Ninth Ward, La. Dept. Of Environmental Quality, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pollutants, Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, La. Dept. Of Health & Hospitals, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Business News

Residents worry about spills in the river, and wonder if oil lapping at the coast has affected their faucet water. Local, state and federal authorities, however, say the city's tap water meets and, under some criteria, exceeds their standards.

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