Disasters

In southeastern Minnesota, the only survivor of last year's deadly Memorial Day crash that killed five people near Rochester has been speaking this week about the dangers of drinking and driving.
BP tells feds key areas probed as Gulf spill cause
Oil giant BP is focused on two key areas around the blown wellhead as it probes the cause of the unchecked Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company said as it started to brief federal authorities on its internal investigation.
Frustration grows over oil spill
One month after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, crude oil has reached US shorelines. Critics are accusing not only BP, but also the Obama administration for not doing enough to slow this environmental catastrophe.
Oil coating the coast and animals in the Gulf of Mexico can be deadly. Scientists are still trying to determine how the BP spill and its clean-up efforts will affect marine life there in the short and long terms.
BP's ability questioned as Gulf oil chokes marshes
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill seeped miles deeper into Louisiana's fragile marshes, making it tougher to clean up or to rescue wildlife like the brown pelican, as the federal government questioned whether BP will be able plug its blown-out well on the seabed.