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Coast Guard: Oil Seeping Near Well
Max Read · 07/18/10 10:54PM'Ew... Are You Sure That's Oil?'
Jeff Neumann · 06/12/10 11:39AMOil Spill Day 48
Jeff Neumann · 06/06/10 09:35PMCoast Guard Now Enforcing BP's Oil Spill Viewing Rules
Jeff Neumann · 05/20/10 04:38AMReport: Coast Guard Fires on a Boat on Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
John Cook · 09/11/09 09:28AMMartha Busted By Coast Guard
cityfile · 05/30/08 06:52AMMartha Stewart continues to demonstrate her flair for attracting the authorities. This past holiday weekend she and her billionaire boy toy, Charles Simonyi, were taking a spin in Skylands II, her boat, off the coast of the domestic doyenne's getaway property in Seal Harbor, Maine. A few minutes into the excursion, the Coast Guard showed up for a spot inspection of the vessel! It no doubt triggered painful flashbacks of raids of yore for Martha, but all in all it was a pretty innocuous affair: Stewart's boat was forced to dock, a few guys from the U.S. Coast Guard made sure the safety equipment and whatnot was up to code, and then the Stewart-Simonyi loveboat was allowed back on its way. If anything, Martha actually seemed to take pleasure in the USCG's boarding of her pleasure craft—she pruriently notes that the Coast Guard dudes were "handsome" and "strong."
Maggie · 12/06/07 02:30PM
"The Coast Guard has reeled in a record 355,000 pounds of cocaine over the past year... the street value of the drugs seized or removed last year by the Coast Guard equals roughly half the agency's total annual budget, said Commandant Adm. Thad Allen." Which explains why the fine commandant will be selling back the 50 kilos hidden on various parts of his person to some Columbian friends of his later today. Still, it's pretty impressive, given that the Coast Guard basically has no working boats and an inability to purchase working communications systems. [CNN]