LAKE ERIE - A day after a U.S. Coast Guard cutter arrived to break a cargo-hauling freighter free from the snow and ice that encased it, the 663-foot Manitoulin remained stuck late Friday.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a freighter is on the move after it was freed from ice that trapped it in frozen Lake Erie for days BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A freighter is on the move after it was freed from ...

A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to the Coast Guard, which arrived with icebreaking equipment Thursday to begin ...

so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice with that level of thickness,” U.S. Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Bridgette Baldwin told WIVB. Footage ...

U.S. Coast Guard rescuers used a boat to rescue stranded ice fishers. U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes Two Michigan ice fishers who found themselves adrift on a piece of ice in Lake Huron were rescued ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Manitoulin ...

The Bristol Bay, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from Detroit, which headed Thursday toward Buffalo, New York, is attempting to free a Canadian freighter stuck in the thick ice on frigid Lake Erie.

An ice-cutting barge, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, was dispatched earlier today to help free the freighter from the snow and ice field. Coast Guard officials said ice-breaking measures ...