A 32-year-old man who went for a predawn swim in the Gulf of Mexico was rescued Saturday after almost five hours of treading water, the U.S. Coast Guard said. ...more

June 7, 2009

The Coast Guard was searching Gulf of Mexico waters Monday for an 18-year-old recent high school graduate from Louisiana who fell overboard from a cruise ship. ...more

May 25, 2009

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a 29-year-old scuba diver who vanished this afternoon about 21 miles west of Johns Pass in Treasure Island. ...more

May 2, 2009

An 87-foot Coast Guard cutter will search all night for two pilots whose plane apparently crashed Sunday into the Gulf of Mexico, authorities say. ...more

December 1, 2008

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter is hovering over a 46-foot cabin cruiser that is taking on water and in immediate danger of capsizing some 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

October 11, 2008

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued two fishermen found floating in a life raft this morning in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard officials said. Elisseos Stamtiou, 69, of New Port Richey and Steven Sander, 48, of Spring Hill were about 70 miles west of Clearwater, the Coast Guard said. Their 36-foot-long commercial fishing boat, the Evripos, had sunk, officials said. ...more

September 24, 2008

Divers on Sunday recovered the bodies of the two people still missing after the small plane they were on crashed in Northwest Florida after taking off from Cedar Key Airport, authorities said. ...more

June 9, 2008

The body of a Plant City businessman was found in the wreckage of a single-engine plane crash Saturday afternoon off Cedar Key. ...more

June 8, 2008

The body of a Plant City businessman was found in the wreckage of a single-engine plane crash Saturday afternoon off Cedar Key. ...more

June 7, 2008

There were 21 operations to repair his mangled legs and feet, and two more to remove "hardware." ...more

May 23, 2008