by Alan Turner Published: May 10,2013
Tags: accident, barge, boat, bridge, collision, ship, shipper, shipping, state agency, towboat, transportation, video
VICKSBURG — Louisiana officials have informally asked about video from security cameras at the old U.S. Highway 80 bridge where a barge struck the Mississippi River span on March 23, 2011. Vicksburg Bridge Commission superintendent Herman Smith tells the Vicksburg Post the agency has not been served with a subpoena for the video. The highway [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 2,2013
Tags: accident, crude oil, disaster, disaster recovery, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — BP PLC is paying $69 million for interactive exhibits at a Hancock County science center, a concrete pathway on the beach at Pascagoula, up to six miles of shoreline and improvements at a park as part of Mississippi Gulf Coast restoration from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gov. Phil Bryant said. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 30,2013
Tags: accident, crash, doctor, doctor's office, health, health care, injury, medical, medicine, physician, vehicle
OCEAN SPRINGS — Four people were taken to the hospital after the driver of an SUV drove through a doctor’s office in Ocean Springs. Office administrator Donna Heitzman tells The Sun Herald at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday a man drove his Jeep Cherokee through the wall of Ocean Springs Internal Medicine. Heitzman says four people, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 23,2013
Tags: accident, barge, boat, boater, boating, bridge, collision, navigation, river, ship, shipper, shipping, sink, sunk, towboat, transportation
VICKSBURG — Authorities say the barge that sank after hitting a bridge on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg poses no dangers to shipping or the environment. Coast Guard Capt. Bill Drelling said today that the barge is in 80 feet of water so there’s no risk of other barges hitting it. No decision has been [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 22,2013
Tags: accident, barge, boater, boating, bridge, maritime, navigation, ship, shipper, shipping, sinking, sunk, towboat, trnsportation
VICKSBURG — The Mississippi River re-opened this morning in Vicksburg after barges hit the old U.S. Highway 80 railroad bridge. Coast Guard Lt. Ryan Gomez says that there was enough water covering a barge that sank yesterday to allow other vessels to safely pass through. After the river re-opened at 9:30 a.m. CDT, the coast [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 22,2013
Tags: accident, barge, boat, boater, boating, bridge, flood, flooding, navigation, rain, river, ship, shipper, shipping, sinking, snow, spring flood, sunk, towboat, transportation, water
VICKSBURG — The Coast Guard closed the Mississippi River at Vicksburg after barges hit a railroad bridge there yesterday and about 30 barges broke free from the towboat “Captain Buck Lay.” Nine towboats — six bound upriver and three heading downriver — with a total of 134 barges were waiting to get through yesterday evening, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 8,2013
Tags: accident, bench, case, cvacation, death, disaster, ecosystem, environment, explosion, fatality, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, pollution, restaurant, seafood, testimony, tourism, tourist, trail, visitor, wildlife, witness
NEW ORLEANS — BP is scheduled to call its first witness today at a trial designed to determine causes of its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and assign fault to the companies involved in the deadly disaster. Halliburton, BP PLC’s cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling project, rested its case [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 4,2013
Tags: accident, appeal, bench, court, death, disaster, energy, explosion, fatality, fencing, fuel, gasoline, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, natural gas, Oil, oil tank, ordinance, petroleum, sign
FORREST COUNTY — A Louisiana-based oil company has appealed a judge’s ruling that upheld a new sign and fencing ordinance put in place by Forrest County after fatal 2009 oil tank explosion. The appeal by Delphi Oil Inc. of Baton Rouge, La., is among dozens the Mississippi Supreme Court will consider during its March-April term. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 1,2013
Tags: accident, bench, case, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, emergency, energy, environment, executive, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, investigation, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, probe, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — An internal BP probe of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn’t explore whether decisions by upper-level management or cost cuts had a role in causing the disaster because investigators didn’t have access to its partners’ employees and records, a BP executive testified yesterday at a trial designed to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 26,2013
Tags: accident, bench, court, crude oil, death, ecosystem, emergency, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoliner, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, naural gas, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — An expert witness for people and businesses who sued BP over the Gulf oil spill says he found ample evidence that the company’s cost-cutting culture led to the disaster. University of California-Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea testified today at a civil trial. He says BP PLC didn’t implement a safety management program [...] [...]
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