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BP hopes to siphon up to half of oil in the Gulf but concerns remain over a current carrying oil to Florida, East Coast

BP hopes to siphon up to half of oil in the Gulf but concerns remain over a current carrying oil to Florida, East Coast

BP today said it was siphoning more than a fifth of the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but concerns remain over the oil reaching a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast.

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BP: Latest fix for blown Gulf oil well is working

BP: Latest fix for blown Gulf oil well is working

Oil company engineers on Sunday finally succeeded in keeping some of the oil gushing from a blown well out of the Gulf of Mexico, hooking up a mile-long tube to funnel the crude into a tanker ship after more than three weeks of failures.

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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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Fargo Park Board approves deer hunt

Fargo police say bowhunters took 11 deer along the Red River corridor during the last deer management season. Eight of the 23 hunters who took part in the program got a deer.

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BP's next try to stem oil gusher: Smaller tube

BP's next try to stem oil gusher: Smaller tube

BP officials said Thursday they would thread a small tube into a jagged pipe on the seafloor to suck oil to the surface before it can spew into the Gulf and add to the disaster, which was apparently set in motion by a long list of equipment failures.

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