Something was wrong. BP was preparing to plug its well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, and longtime technical adviser Jesse Gagliano was running computer models to finalize details. It was April 15, five days before the well blew out, causing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — U.S. Marine commandos stormed a pirate-held cargo vessel off the Somalia coast Thursday, reclaiming control of the ship and taking nine prisoners without firing a shot, the U.S. Navy said.
DETROIT (AP) — Unless an appeals court intervenes, former Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers is due to report to a federal prison Friday to begin serving a sentence for corruption.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP’s long-awaited internal report on what it believes went wrong when a rig exploded and started the massive Gulf oil spill never mentions the words blame, regret, apology, mistake or pollution. The word fault shows up 20 times, but only once in the same sentence as the company’s name.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hazleton, Pa., may not enforce its crackdown on illegal immigrants, dealing another blow to 4-year-old regulations that inspired similar measures around the country, including Arizona.
DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers, who admitted taking bribes to support a sludge contract, must report to prison by Friday after a federal appeals court refused to delay her sentence.
NEW YORK (AP) — The backers of a proposed Islamic center near ground zero are expressing regrets about creating a firestorm with a plan they thought would be simple and noncontroversial.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — A suicide car bomber hit the central market of a major city in Russia’s North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least 17 and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected American missile strike killed five alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan early Thursday, an intelligence official said, the fourth such attack on suspected insurgent targets there in 24 hours.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire burning in the canyons and steep mountainsides near Boulder became one of the most destructive blazes in Colorado history Wednesday as authorities determined it had destroyed at least 135 homes in just three days.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine trekked northward after forcing more than 100 high-water rescues in Texas, swamping streets, producing several tornadoes and killing at least two people.
CLEVELAND (AP) — President Barack Obama strongly defended his opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans on Wednesday and delivered a searing attack on Republicans and their House leader for advocating “the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place.”
CHICAGO (AP) — A former executive of the bankrupt health care company Canopy Financial Inc. has agreed to plead guilty in an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud.
NEW YORK (AP) — Australia and New Zealand share first place, and the United States is tied for fifth, in a first-of-its kind survey ranking 153 nations on the willingness of their citizens to donate time and money to charity.
