Coast Guard Cancels Two Live-Fire Drills
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 15--The U.S. Coast Guard's Great Lakes district commander canceled two live-fire machine gun exercises that were scheduled for Thursday.   Rear Adm. John E. Crowley Jr., commander of the Cleveland-based 9th Coast Guard District, made the decision.
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The Coast Guard suspended its search for the captain of a charter fishing vessel that capsized off the South Carolina coast. Six other boaters were rescued.
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The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for six boaters and said it was investigating the distress calls about their small craft taking on water as a possible hoax.
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By Dan Lamothe, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 27--The Coast Guard plans to take no action to clean up the first of seven contaminated sites at its yard on Curtis Bay.
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A multibillion-dollar effort to modernize the Coast Guard's fleet has suffered delays, cost increases, design flaws and, most recently, the idling of eight 123-foot patrol boats that were found to be not seaworthy after an $88 million refurbishment.
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Seven U.S. Marines were killed in two  separate incidents west of Baghdad Sunday, the U.S. military  said in a statement Monday.
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By Jennifer Hill and Kim Pilling, Scottish Press Association. Canada has suspended three of its former Royal Navy submarines from service after last weekâs fatal blaze on a fourth vessel.
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Wareham has canceled Fourth of July fireworks this year and Canton is scaling back, while Plymouth officials don't know quite what to do.
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By Jessica Foster, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 19--The Coast Guard rescued three fishermen who were stranded  without power on their boat from 6- to 8-foot seas east of Georgetown on  Sunday.
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A volunteer coastguard quits after being investigated for not using safety equipment during a dramatic cliff rescue.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The sealift of the Canadian navy submarine HMCS Chicoutimi has been postponed because of poor weather, the Defence Department has confirmed.
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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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Operations at the Warren Grove firing range were temporarily suspended Friday after an F-16 fighter jet with the District of Columbia Air National Guard accidentally fired about 25 training
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--The U.S. Coast Guard today reported a second possible sighting of Jim Gray's sailboat late Tuesday.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has called off annual military exercises in a goodwill gesture after China canceled its drills, Taiwan officials said on Tuesday.
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State department under fire after offering immunity to Blackwater guards allegedly involved in shooting.
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By KEN THOMAS  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday it was withdrawing plans to periodically close 2,500 square miles of the Great Lakes for live machine-gun firing exercises.  The plan had been criticized by several U.S.