US coastguard and BP staff are today trying to assess if the growing oil slick from the sunken oil rig ... the coast of Louisiana on 22 April the pipe connecting it to the wellhead was severed ...

Federal and state officials are developing plans to respond to an oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico ... showed liquid spewing out of the pipe.

A westbound Toyota Prius driven by Radiant Jaime Gaines, 48, also lost control in the oil slick and slid into the eastbound lane, hitting head-on a car driven by 59-year-old Christine Dorene ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A roughly 2.5-mile-long oil slick has been detected off the coast of Huntington Beach, but its source remained unclear. The Coast Guard said Friday that the ...

The Coast Guard is monitoring a mile-long oil slick that was discovered on Buzzards Bay on Sunday morning, officials said. A Coast Guard helicopter observed the sheen to be about 150 to 300 feet ...

A Florence woman died in a head-on car crash Tuesday as a result of an ... lost control in the oil slick and crashed into the logging truck before moving off the highway. Another westbound vehicle ...