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With celebration cigars ready, Fargo calmly waits for river to crest and flood threat to pass. They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that's spent the last week getting ready to hold back the Red River cautiously prepared to celebrate what appeared to be a successful defense against the swollen waterway.

Commander of Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento, Calif., temporarily relieved of duty. The commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento has been temporarily relieved of duty, five months after several crewmen died in a collision between one of the station's aircraft and a Marine Corps helicopter.

American athlete, 22, claims record as youngest person to complete solo row across Atlantic. A 22-year-old American rower completed a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, touching a pier in the coffee-brown waters of Guyana to claim a record as the youngest person to accomplish the feat.

Panama's Coast Guard on Friday plucked 1.6 tons of cocaine dumped overboard from a motorboat during a high-speed chase off the country's Caribbean coast, the border defense service said.

Japan arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding Japanese vessel. Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling.

2 Marine fighter pilots rescued in SC ocean crash; engine failure investigated in $29M jet. Two Marine aviators aboard a flaming F/A-18D reacted quickly enough to slow their jet so they could safely eject over the Atlantic Ocean, their commander said Thursday.

Two Marine aviators aboard a flaming F/A-18D reacted quickly enough to slow their jet so they could safely eject over the Atlantic Ocean, their commander said Thursday.

2 Marine Corps fighter pilots rescued off SC coast after jet goes down; Neither badly hurt. Two Marine Corps fighter pilots have been rescued from the ocean off South Carolina after their aircraft went down.

Coast Guard: Polar Star icebreaker to be reactivated by 2013, after retrofit in Seattle. After a $62 million overhaul, the Coast Guard will have its third icebeaker back in service in 2013, filling a critical need as the fleet takes on new responsibilities, the commandant of the service said Wednesday.

FAA probing pilot's violation of D.C. airspace nearly 30 miles from nation's capital. The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating a restricted airspace violation by a small plane that came within 30 miles of the nation's capital.

Ships that caused Texas' worst oil spill in 15 years apparently unaware they would collide. An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday.

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3 crew members on Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Utah return to home base in NC. Three crew members aboard a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Utah last week have returned to their home base in Elizabeth City, N.C.

WWII-era plane crashes off Fla. Panhandle, killing neurosurgeon pilot and his passenger. A neurosurgeon and one other person were killed when the World War II-era plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle.

Rep. Delahunt, D-Mass., won't run for re-election after 7 terms; says decision isn't political. Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt will not run for re-election, the seven-term Democrat said Thursday night, a decision he said was not politically motivated as he faces criticism for his handling of a 1986 shooting by a University of Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues last month.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - In hard economic times, even the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the famed long-distance trek across frozen Alaska starting on Saturday, has had to scratch around for a little extra assistance.

Don Kent had a conversational style people could trust when they wanted to know if the day would bring rain or snow or the kind of sunny skies that made a weatherman smile. A meteorologist on radio and television before on-air voices became bland and homogenized, Mr. Kent spoke with an accent that broadcast a life spent in Boston, Quincy, and North Weymouth. And by taking weather seriously in an era when many TV stations turned forecast segments into entertainment, he set standards his successors still follow. ``My gimmick is credibility,'' he told The Boston Globe in 1980, when he was nearing the end of 34 years forecasting for WBZ radio and TV, his home for much of a career that began in 1937 and ended several years ago. The dean of broadcast weather forecasting in Boston and New England, Mr. Kent died yesterday, a little past midnight, in Franklin Regional Hospital in Franklin, N.H., a few miles from his home in Sanbornton. He was 92 and his health had failed since a bout with pneum

Internal memo: Obama's pick to run Coast Guard wants to cut back on counterterrorism programs. President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Coast Guard proposed major cuts to the agency's counterterrorism mission over the next five years.

Sole survivor of Fla. boating accident that killed football players tells story in new book. The sole survivor of a Florida boating accident that killed two NFL players and a former college football player is releasing a book about the tragedy.

Sole survivor of Fla. boating accident that killed football players tells story in new book. The sole survivor of a Florida boating accident that killed two NFL players and a former college football player is releasing a book about the tragedy.