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Florence weakened to a tropical depression Sunday, but that is cold comfort to residents in North Carolina who have seen over 2 feet of rain and are now battling major-river flooding and possible tornadoes . "Flood waters are still raging across parts of our state, and the risk to life is rising with the angry waters," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said at a midday news conference.
A Coast Guard member who appeared to flash a white power hand symbol on live TV has been removed from a Tropical Storm Florence response team after a video shared to Twitter sparked wide-spread outrage, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The man, who has not been identified, could be seen in the background as Sector Charleston Commanding Officer Capt.
The arrest of a veteran Border Patrol agent as a suspect in the murder of four people has rocked the border community of Laredo. Woman's escape leads to arrest of 'serial killer' Border Patrol agent The arrest of a veteran Border Patrol agent as a suspect in the murder of four people has rocked the border community of Laredo.
Tropical Storm Florence dumped "epic" amounts of rain on North and South Carolina as it trudged inland on Saturday, knocking out power and causing at least eight deaths as flood waters that have devastated many communities kept rising. Florence's intensity has diminished since it roared ashore along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast on Friday as a hurricane.
In the background of a Coast Guard briefing on MSNBC on Friday evening, in a bustling aid center, a Coast Guard member flashed what some TV viewers claimed was a white power sign at the camera. In the clip, as an official detailed the efforts underway as Hurricane Florence tore through the Carolinas, a man with a crew cut sitting immediately behind him looked directly at the camera.
A squid boat ran aground on Catalina Island, but no one aboard was injured, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Wednesday. The 33-foot vessel ran aground about 8:50 p.m. Monday near Rippers Cove on the island's leeward side, Coast Guard officials in San Pedro said.
The operators of a Missouri duck boat that sank in July, killing 17 people, say in a court filing that a lawsuit from Missouri's attorney general is "irresponsible" and "littered with factual inaccuracies and innuendo." Attorney General Josh Hawley's lawsuit filed last month accused Branson Duck Vehicles and Ripley Entertainment Inc. of violating Missouri's consumer protection law and putting profits above safety.
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SAN JOSE: Law enforcement officials in Costa Rica said on Thursday they had recovered two tons of cocaine from a low-profile boat found about 80 nautical miles off the coast, one of the biggest drug confiscations made at sea. Costa Rican authorities said they began an operation in the Pacific Ocean after receiving a tip from the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday that resulted in the discovery of about 2,000 packets of cocaine of about 1 kg each.
A U.S. Coast Guard inspection report shows that a Missouri tourist boat that sank last month, killing 17 people, was on the lake when the wind speed far exceeded the allowable limit. The Coast Guard on Wednesday announced it had convened a formal Marine Board of Investigation into the accident involving the Ride the Ducks of Branson boat.
After Thursday's drownings, the conversation among Dauphin Island officials has been about getting some sort of beach warning system. It was a long 16 hours for first responders on Dauphin Island as they quickly shifted from rescue to recovery mode after a man and 17-year-old boy from Taiwan drowned .
To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: The latest design, showing the proposed front entrance of the estimated $100 million National Coast Guard Museum planned for downtown New London waterfront, is seen in this rendering released Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
Sgt. Paul Ketcham looks at Moro Beach where two panga boat were recently found near Crystal Cove State Beach while giving a tour to a reporter on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Two Harbor Patrol deputies on patrol in Dana Point Harbor last weekend noticed something odd: 11 people, some in life vests, standing on the west jetty with no boat in sight.
The New York Times reports the 62-year-old known as Marge has been living for free in the 222-year-old Montauk Lighthouse for 31 years - since April 1987 - when the U.S. Coast Guard moved out of the property on the island's eastern end and turned it over to the Montauk Historical Society. She lived at the lighthouse for free but the caretaker's job came with no pay, so she worked during the day at the local post office for 30 years.
Truck falls off Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in crash A crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel closed all southbound traffic for a time Friday evening, officials said. Check out this story on eveningsun.com: A freight truck went over a Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel safety wall and into the water on Friday, officials confirmed, stopping all southbound traffic for a time.
Mother-of-two rescued by US Coast Guard from Oregon cliff after going missing for four days last year is charged with 96 felony counts Heather Mounce, 38, is facing 62 counts of identity theft, 24 counts of criminal mistreatment and 10 counts of theft Mounce is also suspected of stealing the identity of a man in his 90s who was in her care, as well as $5,000 Authorities said at the time Mounce drove to the coast on her own free will, but did not reveal why An Oregon woman who went missing for nearly four days last summer, only to be rescued by the US Coast Guard from a remote cliff, has now been charged with nearly 100 felony counts.
Former service members of the U.S. Coast Guard have filed a lawsuit claiming they were wrongfully forced to retire. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports the lawsuit filed in federal court last month claims about 400 service members were made to retire in violation of federal law from 2012-14.
The duck boat that sank in Table Rock Lake in Branson, Mo., is raised Monday, July 23, 2018. The boat went down Thursday evening after a thunderstorm generated near-hurricane strength winds.
The U.S. Coast Guard is scheduled Monday to begin the retrieval of a duck boat that sank while carrying tourists on a southern Missouri lake during powerful winds, killing 17 people. Divers are expected to swim down to the Ride the Ducks boat and connect it to a crane, which will lift it to the surface.