US Coast Guard News

The grounding of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge off a remote Alaska island began with a bracket connected to a tow line being ripped off the vessel in heavy Gulf of Alaska weather, a Shell official testified Monday.

Of those, 17 were recommended for further assessment and potential removal of both fuel oil and oil cargo.

Two jet-boaters race into a wall of spray from another boat during the annual "Race the Joe" jet-boat races on the St.

First responders and emergency crews were dispatched to a 'fake gunman.' They responded on the water and in the air.

No longer needed by the U.S. Coast Guard, the historic Superior Harbor South Breakwater lighthouse is being offered free to any eligible entity for educational, recreational, cultural or historic preservation purposes.

No longer needed by the U.S. Coast Guard, the lighthouse is being offered to any eligible group that would use it - and pay for its upkeep - for education, recreational, cultural or historic preservation purposes.

A decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard ship that was sold to a private owner by the Port Huron Museum is being reopened to the public.

Bangor - This weekend was all about honoring our service men and women. It was Armed Forces Day and the 10 year Anniversary of the Maine Troop Greeters.

Go Carts which stands for, Guardsmen Carting Across the States, is designed to raise awareness of injured service members for the Wounded Warriors Project .

The raid happened in back in March. The Norwalk Reflector reports authorities found an active meth lab in the apartment of Allen Mobberly, 32.

We have an update to a car accident we reported on Thursday. It happened on State Route 199 at Eagleville Road.

During a sunny morning in late April, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter docked in Miami Beach and unloaded 2,200 pounds of cocaine worth $27 million tightly wrapped in plastic bags.

The U. S. Armed Forces Legacy site was dedicated Saturday, May 18, 2013, coinciding with Armed Forces Day.

As the ice comes off more Minnesota lakes, safety officials are highlighting Saturday's start to National Safe Boating Week.

Joshua James is said to have saved more than 600 lives in the 1800s during a 60-year career with the U.S. Life Saving Service.

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. Escambia County officials have enlisted the help of many organizations to help bring a 7-year-old Escambia County boy home.

Though employment and enrollment data about colleges and universities is submitted to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics by the colleges themselves, representatives of several schools said the federal figures showing a disproportionate increase in their number of administrators conflicted with their own ... (more)

When Glenn D. Frazier went to enlist in the U.S. Army early in World War II, he told two of the biggest lies of his life.

The search for a 62-year-old Honokaa man last seen before reportedly going for a swim at Waipio Valley has been called off.

As part of its investigation into the grounding of the Kulluk, Shell's Arctic floating drilling platform, the U.S. Coast Guard is holding a hearing in Anchorage to gather testimony on the circumstances surrounding the incident.