ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) – Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most ...

A 20-foot pleasure boat that invaded the strict perimeter Thursday and pulled up right in the middle of the oil spill near the boat drilling the relief well was told to leave the area by a Coast Guard ...

A second, smaller container has reached the seafloor, but it hasn't yet been placed over the blown out well that's spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a BP official said. BP ...

A boat carrying a 100-ton concrete-and-steel contraption designed to siphon off the oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico arrived Thursday at the spot in the sea where a blown-out well is spewing hundreds of ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Crews planned Sunday to park the giant oil containment box on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and offload equipment that could be used in a new attempt to stem the flow of ...

Tar balls washed up on Baldwin County beaches Tuesday for the first time as officials continued to prepare Alabama's coast for the possible landfall of oil from Crews in environmental protection suits ...

A 12-man crew aboard a supply boat was carrying the precious cargo. The 280-foot Joe Griffin, owned by Edison Chouest Offshore, also was involved in helping fight the fire that resulted from the oil ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of ...

The vessel is named for a boat captain who worked with company founder Edison Chouest, when Chouest was still in the shrimping business. The operator of the oil rig, BP PLC, has tried several ...

The containment box has a dome-like structure at the top that's designed to act like a funnel and siphon the oil up through 5,000 feet of pipe and onto a tanker at the surface. First, crews need to ...

The containment box has a dome-like structure at the top that’s designed to act like a funnel and siphon the oil up through 5,000 feet of pipe and onto a tanker at the surface. First, crews need to ...

Thu, 06 May 2010 10:00:31 GMT — ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) " Crews prepared Thursday to lower a 100-ton box they hoped would cut off most of the crude spewing from a blown-out well in the Gulf of ...