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TIVERTON, R.I. - The search for a missing homeless man in Tiverton has been mostly called off. Tiverton Fire Chief Robert Lloyd tells WBSM News police received a call from a family member of the homeless man early this morning, saying he had contacted them telling them he intended to harm himself...

NEW BEDFORD (AP) - The Coast Guard says about two drums worth of oil has been recovered after spilling from an unidentified source Thursday into New Bedford Harbor. The Coast Guard and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection were called to the harbor after the oil was spotted pushing up against the docks and fishing vessels at Leonard's Wharf...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) - A fisherman was rescued after he fell overboard near a pier in Provincetown during Saturday's snowstorm. The Coast Guard received a mayday call from a fishing vessel at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday stating that a crew member had fallen overboard near the MacMillan Pier...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) _ The U.S. Coast Guard says a sick fisherman was airlifted from his vessel off the coast of Massachusetts. Crews arrived at the 88-foot-long fishing boat "Athena," based out of New Bedford, about 115 miles east of Provincetown around 4:15 p...

A Fairhaven man has been sentenced for making fake distress calls to the Coast Guard in 2015. 47-year-old Roger Martin of Fairhaven was sentenced to one year of probation, and was also ordered to pay over $7,000 in restitution to the Coast Guard...

BOSTON — The Coast Guard and local responders rescued six people Sunday from a 72-foot scallop boat sinking five miles off New Bedford. A person aboard the scallop boat, "Captain Jeff," used a VHF radio at 9:30 a.m. to hail watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, in Woods Hole, and report their boat was taking on water...

The Coast Guard is suspending it's search for three men with local ties. Carlos and Dylan Amaral of New Bedford, and Mario Fialho of Lakeville were reported missing Tuesday after they failed to return to port in Sandwich after a fishing trip in the 23-foot vessel "Dad Sea Cave...

Three missing boaters appear to have local ties. The Coast Guard is currently searching for the three men, after they embarked on a sea excursion and failed to return home as scheduled on Tuesday. The Coast Guard is searching for any signs of Carlos Amaral, Dylan Amaral, and Mario Fialho and the vessel, the 23-foot "Dad Sea Cave...

BOSTON (AP) - A Vermont man who spent a week at sea in a life raft before being rescued by a passing freighter will be reunited with his family in Boston, while his mother is still unaccounted for and presumed dead. Nathan Carman, of Vernon, Vermont, is expected to arrive in Boston on Tuesday morning aboard the freighter that rescued him off the coast of Massachusetts on Sunday...

BOSTON (AP) _ The U.S. Coast Guard says one of two Connecticut boaters who had been missing for a week after leaving a Rhode Island marina was found alive, drifting on an inflatable life raft off the coast of Massachusetts. The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for 54-year-old Linda Carman and her 22-year-old son, Nathan of Middletown, Connecticut...