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Veteran Minn. lawyer considers joining oil spill suits

An attorney who spent 21 years representing Alaska residents and fishermen after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill said he's considering getting involved in the recent spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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1 hurt in school bus-car collision

A passenger in a car was injured when the vehicle collided with a school bus full of children in St. Paul Tuesday morning.

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Fargo apartment fire displaces some residents

No one was injured when an early morning fire forced the evacuation of about 30 people from a three-story apartment building in south Fargo.

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Mesabi East student dies after welding incident

A junior at Mesabi East has died from complications following a welding incident at the high school.

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BP's ongoing oil containment efforts

BP's ongoing oil containment efforts

President Obama is sending a bomb builder and Mars expert to help BP tackle the problem of stopping the oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico. Midmorning asks if the latest engineering efforts are good enough and which ideas are still left on the table.

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Golf balls, tires may be needed to plug Gulf leak

BP might wind up shooting junk of all shapes and sizes to plug the nooks and crannies in a giant piece of machinery that's allowing some of the oil to escape into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Missing data causing oil rig reconstruction mystery

A "black box" can reveal why an airplane crashed or how fast a car was going in the instant before an accident. Yet there are no records of a critical safety test supposedly performed during the fateful hours before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.

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NPR: Gulf oil spill could be much worse than believed

The volume of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig may be at least 10 times higher than previously estimated, NPR has learned.

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BP says its Gulf oil spill costs now $450 million

The cost of fighting a massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill is mounting rapidly for the global oil company that owns the well.

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Political patience wanes as Gulf oil spill grows

Political patience wanes as Gulf oil spill grows

Political patience was washing away for BP executives who can't stop a broken underwater well from spewing oil into the Gulf, where crews were trying the latest solution - submerging a second containment box designed to funnel the gusher to a waiting tanker.

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