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White House Sec. Gibbs: Marine Energy Platform Site Off Louisiana Not Active
According to White House press secretary in a news briefing, Robert Gibbs, the Marine Energy Gulf Coast platform that exploded thursday morning is not active.
Gibbs also said the platform was in shallow waters. Gibbs said he did not have sufficient information and did not want to respond to iss...
Breaking" Coast Guard Rig Explodes In Gulf of Mexico Near, West BP Site
Natural gas explosion on Vermillion oil rig. All 13 people have been accounted for.
Coast Guard...
Katrina Louisiana, New Orleans: Recalling A Week Of Horror
With the five year anniversary of Katrina being commemorated this week, and a major hurricane moving...
New Orleans Saints: Vilma, Sharper, Brad Pitt, Minnesota Vikings
Saints coach Sean Payton said middle linebacker Jon Vilma will miss Thursday night 's game at Tennes...
Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform bu...
Oil spill seen in Gulf platform explosion
An oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday, setting off a blaze and a small ...
Landrieu: Wants New Orleans To Use Emergency Text Messages
New Orleans, LA – As Tropical Storm Alex gained strength moving towards Mexico, Mayor Mitch Landrieu...
Top Obama ally: Democrats will hold the US Congres...
AFP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies will defy glum forecasts of a rout in November elec...
US looks at bolstering funding for Yemeni military...
AFP - US commanders have proposed spending up to 1.2 billion dollars over five years on Yemen's secu...
A look at potential tax hikes (AP)
AP - A look at potential tax hikes
US Def Sec: Afghans should lead corruption fight ...
AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that while the fight against corruption must ...
Bernanke takes blame for muddled message on Lehman...
Reuters - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he was partly to blame for leaving the wro...
EU reaches deal on cross-border financial supervis...
AFP - Europe took a big step closer on Thursday to its goal of creating cross-border financial super...
Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' transformed to film ...
AP - Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung crossed cultural and linguistic borders to direct his ...
Bob Dylan's paintings on show in Danish gallery ...
Reuters - Forty new paintings by American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan go on show this weekend in...
Music labels eager for Google-Apple battle (R...
Reuters - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song ...
Abbott's diet drug study renews calls for U.S. ban...
Reuters - A study funded by Abbott Laboratories offered more detailed evidence that its weight-loss ...
Recalls this week: Toy rattles, baby monitors ...
AP - Wooden toy rattles and video baby monitors are among the recalled products in this week's round...
Prescription Drug Use Rising in U.S., CDC Reports ...
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Over the last 10 years, the
percentage of America...
Summary Box: Google, Skype targeted by India ...
AP - WIDER NET: After pressuring BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. for data on users' traffic...
Mexico to go digital by 2015 (AFP)
AFP - Mexico will change from analog to digital television by 2015 to promote competition and help c...
New app promises wireless sync for iPhone — if A...
Ben Patterson - Zune users have been able to sync their music and videos over Wi-Fi for years now —...
Bow and arrow used to send phones into Brazil jail...
AP - Police say a 17-year-old teen was detained after he shot arrows with cell phones attached over ...
Despite embargo, Cuba a haven for pirated U.S. goo...
Reuters - A few weeks after Ashton Kutcher's latest comedy "Killers" premiered in the United States,...
Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks ...
AP - To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their ...
Yanks' Swisher out with knee stiffness (AP)
Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher has made an early exit against Oakland because of stiffness in his l...
Roethlisberger ban likely to be reduced (AP)
Ben Roethlisberger's six-game suspension likely will be shortened to four games by NFL commissioner ...
Dragic, Slovenia in elimination stage (AP)
Goran Dragic of the Phoenix Suns scored 18 points, and Slovenia surged into the elimation stage of t...
