Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to their ...

The partial U.S. government shutdown threatens to leave thousands of sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and women and civilian workers without pay, while non-essential operations grind to a halt due to ...

Rendering of two waterways commerce cutter variants: a river buoy tender (left) and an inland construction tender (right). Image courtesy of Birdon America Inc. The Coast Guard has advanced its inland ...

For the pararescuemen and aircrews of the 129th Rescue Wing, the call that came in had its challenges. On Sept. 18, a Panamanian-flagged cargo vessel called the Grand Vega put out a distress call when ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A United States Coast Guard boarding team intercepted four undocumented migrants aboard a sailboat in Mission Bay on Saturday, officials confirmed. According to a press ...

Although he officially earned his pilot’s license in 1994, Tom Cruise’s fascination with flying goes back to Top Gun in 1986, where he famously played Navy fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Over ...

Bryson Higashi’s truck was discovered near Hanalei Bay after being left unattended for a full day, the Coast Guard said United States Coast Guard The Coast Guard is searching for a 44-year-old diver ...

Police said they received a 911 call from a person on a boat, saying the 3-year-old and man were overboard from the boat approximately seven miles out from shore, and lost sight of them. The Ashtabula ...

The U.S. Coast Guard joined the search for a 44-year-old diver who vanished in the waters off Hawaii’s island of Kauai. Bryson Higashi was last seen around 4:30 p.m. local time Tuesday near Hanalei, a ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...