To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Avon Lake resident and musician Jerry Popiel has released a special music video tribute for his officially licensed ...

The Port Angeles High School band led a medley saluting the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Coast Guard, while the high school choir, Grand Olympics Chorus and ...

Cleveland musician Jerry Popiel combines his maritime experience with musical talent to honor the 29 crew members lost in the 1975 Lake Superior disaster.

Instead of artillery or other physical weaponry, Larry Schnell’s veteran father used a different instrument of war — a ...

Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975, and killed all 29 men aboard. It's a modern maritime tragedy that ...

A truck driver who backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area — the site of earlier protests against federal immigration agents — was shot by law enforcement officers and ...

Officers opened fire Thursday night at a vehicle backing into a line of Coast Guard and law enforcement personnel outside the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, site of a day-long protest against what ...

Traverse City — The U.S. Coast Guard is rarely needed on bright, sunny days. The circumstances that beseech them tend to be dark, dreary and brutish. It was such a night in August when four people ...

Coast Guard members fired rubber bullets at a car that moved toward a barricade outside Coast Guard Island during a protest Friday. The incident came a day after Coast Guard personnel fired at a ...