Coast Guard Shuts Gulf of Mexico Ports
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The U.S. Coast Guard shut five ports on Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico coast states of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi as Hurricane Ivan churned nearer.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 15--GULFPORT -- More than 100 service members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 left Gulfport on Wednesday as the final phase of one of the largest Seabee deployment operations.
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Vents that would have allowed water to drain from the deck of a doomed scallop boat were closed and its engine door was open when it took on water and sank, killing five fishermen, according to a preliminary U.S. Coast Guard report released Saturday.
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Coming ashore south of Fort Pierce on Saturday. Across the peninsula and exiting into the Gulf of Mexico north of New Port Richey on Sunday.
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The remnants of deadly Hurricane Ivan,  which rampaged through the Caribbean and then into the U.S.  Gulf Coast a week ago, killing more than 100 people, have  reformed in the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm threatening  the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
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Months after a whistle-blower took to the popular Web site YouTube to warn of communications problems with converted patrol boats, the Coast Guard says it has stopped using the ships after finding structural problems that made them potentially dangerous.
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NAVARRE, Fla.  - Rescue teams with dogs fanned out  in house-to-house searches for victims and survivors and  National Guard troops patrolled as the U.S. Gulf coast began a  massive cleanup from Hurricane Ivan, which killed up to 27  people.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday it is dropping plans to conduct live-fire machine gun practice in 34 zones in the Great Lakes, yielding to widespread complaints about dangers to the environment and humans alike.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jan. 31--Federal regulators have pulled the plug on permits needed to build new tide gates in the south Delta, undercutting plans to ramp up the capacity of pumps that deliver water to Central and Southern California.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 21--GULFPORT -- Work crews will close 30th Avenue between 22nd Street and Pass Road beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday   The closing will allow for installation of sewage lines across the roadway. It will be closed until 8 p.m. Saturday.
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Mexican officials closed schools, shut down ports to small fishing boats, and battled flooding in this Pacific resort city Friday as Tropical Storm Henriette dumped heavy rains and caused a minor landslide on a highway.
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Terminal operations at six American seaports were sold today, closing a controversial chapter in American policy.
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NAVARRE, Fla.  - Rescuers with dogs fanned out and  National Guard troops poured in as residents and emergency  workers began a massive cleanup on the U.S. Gulf Coast on  Friday after Hurricane Ivan killed up to 33 people.
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Marathon Oil Corp., the fourth- largest US oil producer, evacuated about 40 workers from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and cut production as Hurricane Ivan entered the region.
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The U.S. Coast Guard, responding to safety and environmental concerns, said Monday it was withdrawing plans to periodically close 6,475 square kilometres of the Great Lakes for live machine-gun exercises.  The plan had been criticized by several U.S.
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San Diego-area beaches were closed Saturday as authorities looked for the ship that caused the worst offshore fuel spill in the area in many years.
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DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Oil-service equipment in the Gulf of Mexico is built to withstand the fierce winds of Hurricane Ivan. The bigger threat is a decline in demand for the companies&#39; equipment.