Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy; By Jeffrey Boutwell; W.W. Norton & Company; 354 pp., $39.99 Fortunately for the former treasury secretary, family, no matter how distant ...

Jeffrey Boutwell knew very little about his distant cousin, George, for most of his life. George Boutwell was governor of Massachusetts in the 1850s. His illustrious political career also brought ...

The US Coast Guard desperately needs shore infrastructure improvements, according to a new government watchdog report. The problems aren't just piers and lighthouses either. It's also airfields ...

A boatload of Russian nationals and migrants from the Dominican Republic were intercepted in US waters and turned over to federal immigration and border patrol authorities, the Coast Guard reported.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (CBS12) — A Coast Guard crew returned 23 undocumented immigrants to the Bahamas Saturday and one suspected smuggler to Homeland Security. On Tuesday, Customs and Border ...

The Navy mine countermeasures ship USS Devastator and Coast Guard cutter USCGC Clarence Sutphin Jr. came to the aid of five Iranians and two Indians aboard the Shayesteh before their ship sank ...

IS SAFE. DESPITE CLOSING MULTIPLE TIMES. THE COAST GUARD SAYS IT HAS SUSPENDED ITS SEARCH FOR A MISSING CREW MEMBER FROM RANCHO CORDOVA. 23 YEAR OLD BRIAN LEE WAS A CREW MEMBER CONDUCTING A ...

Video from the U.S. Coast Guard shows the moment three boaters were rescued after their vessel capsized off the coast of Florida over the weekend. The rescue mission took place on Sunday after the ...

A Coast Guard crew on Tuesday found 20 illegal migrants in the waters off the Southern California shores. The crew of the Cutter Haddock intercepted a 30-foot panga-style vessel 21 miles off Point ...

The missions of the U.S. Coast Guard propel its members across changing and sometimes perilous waters, into neighborhoods damaged by ever-more-intense hurricanes and around the melting ice of the ...

The United States Coast Guard is responding to a tugboat fire on the Delaware River near New Castle. The fire was reported at 9:26 Tuesday morning, the Coast Guard said. The passengers abandoned ...

After the fatal mid-air collision over Washington D.C. in January, the Coast Guard sent nearly 300 personnel, five full-size cutters and small boats from 11 stations to aid in recovery efforts.