VENICE, La. - BP Plc engineers carefully lowered a massive metal chamber toward a gushing oil well on the Gulf of Mexico seabed Friday in a high-stakes mission to contain a leak that threatens an environmental catastrophe on U.S. shores....
By EVAN SCHWARTEN30 July 2011 (AAP) – SOME day it'll be one of those things old timers boast about to cyclone-wary newcomers. "You think this is bad? You should have seen Yasi," they'll say. But that kind of bravado is...
By RANDY LEE LOFTIS / The Dallas Morning Newsrloftis@dallasnews.com, 12:00 AM CST on Sunday, February 7, 2010 From North Texas to Florida, a high-pitched voice is strangely missing from the chatter of wintering birds. The rusty blackbird, a winter visitor...
