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A U.S. Coast Guard crew has rescued two teenagers who ended up adrift on an ice floe in a bay along Lake Erie's northern shore.

A west swell of 12 feet at 16-second intervals peaked Friday and was partly responsible for sinking a 58-foot sardine fishing boat about two miles off Pleasure Point early Friday, the U.S.

Coast Guard reported.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Bainbridge Island Police are searching Saturday for a missing kayaker who disappeared off Bainbridge Island late Friday night.

Two people whose boat capsized during the annual Chicago-to-Mackinac Island race were found "unresponsive" by rescue divers, the U.S.

Coast Guard said Monday, hours after six others who were on board were rescued.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it's hosting a tactical boat operators course offshore from its St.

U.S. Coast Guard crews will be on the water throughout the Fourth of July weekend boarding recreational boats to ensure they have proper safety gear and that operators aren't under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The FBI has linked a shooting at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting office in Woodbridge, Virginia to four other similar incidents at military sites around the Washington area, an FBI spokesman said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a 50-year-old woman has died while scuba diving off the North Carolina coast.

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a containment boom staged at the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday five times as much oil as previously estimated was leaking from a well beneath the site of a deadly drilling rig explosion as the slick threatened wide-scale coastal damage for four U.S.

Gulf Coast states.