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Coast Guard suspends search for missing kayaker

The Coast Guard suspended its search late Wednesday, May 15 for missing kayaker Joseph Kane of Pensacola, Fla. For more than 74 hours, the Coast Guard air and

Coast Guard Band Concert canceled

The U.S. Coast Guard Band concert in Mobile, scheduled for the evening of March 11, has been canceled.

Coast Guard holds memorial for 6535 crew

A memorial dedication to the crew of 6535 is underway at the U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile. The dedication is in memory of LCDR Dale

Coast Guard: Budget cuts to limit flights, patrols

The Coast Guard commandant says the automatic budget cuts taking effect later this week would mean fewer flight hours for rescue helicopters and planes and

Coast Guard: Cause of cruise ship fire was a leak

Now that investigators have determined the origins of the engine-room fire that paralyzed a Carnival cruise ship at sea for five days, they will try to learn

Cruise passengers became comrades on trip home

Passengers who finally escaped the disabled Carnival cruise ship Triumph were checking into hotels early Friday for a hot shower, fresh-cooked food and sleep

Triumph makes slow journey to Alabama port

So close, yet so far away. For the thousands aboard the Carnival Cruise Ship Triumph, the sight of a small Alabama island will be the first glimpse of land

Tug boats tow disabled cruise ship toward Alabama

A second tug boat reached a disabled cruise ship that had been drifting without power in the Gulf of Mexico since a weekend fire and was helping tow it Tuesday

Stranded surfer jumps to safety

A stranded surfer found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place Monday in California.

12 rescued by Coast Guard from research ship

Twelve crew members aboard a research ship are recovering in Mobile after abandoning ship and being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard Aviation

Officers recover $55 million in cocaine off Fla.

Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa found more than 5,000 pounds of cocaine in the water Wednesday after smugglers aboard a boat dumped the drugs in

Man's home a 14-foot canoe in Boston Harbor

They say no man is an island, but Michael Richard Smith has been creating his own floating homes in Boston Harbor.

Gulf rig fire leaves 4 workers critical, 2 missing

An explosion and fire ripped through a Gulf oil platform Friday as workers used a cutting torch, sending four people to a hospital with burns and leaving two

1 dead, captain missing after Sandy claims ship

The Coast Guard says it has found one of the missing crew members of a tall ship that went down off the North Carolina coast, but she is unresponsive.

Fisherman survives day at sea adrift in fish bin

A fisherman who spent a night adrift in a 4-by-4 foot plastic fish bin after his boat sank off Alaska says he gave himself pep talks and sang "Rudolf, the

Coast Guard searches for missing jet skier

Coast Guard aircrews from Aviation Training Center Mobile are searching for a missing 47-year-old male jet skier off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday.

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