A year after the disaster caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf Coast looks to see some tourism return to it’s shores for the historically busy Memorial Day. Many of those involved in the tourism industry along the Gulf Coast seem optimistic that this weekend will be better than the last. A recent […]

The oil giant BP said Wednesday in its internal report that a series of failures involving a number of companies ultimately led to the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — BP claimed a key victory Wednesday in its effort to plug its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico while the government said the vast majority of oil from the worst offshore spill in U.S. history was already gone.

Audio Included in Post. Audio©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Just hours after the historic Senate vote to confirm Indiana’s first African-American Federal Judge, both Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Andre Carson talked about the history making event on Afternoons with Amos.  Both lawmakers also discussed what President Barack Obama should do in the BP Oil Spill Crisis; […]