BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 47-year-old Denham Springs man faces federal charges of mail fraud and retaining stolen government property for allegedly selling electronic equipment from the U.S. Coast Guard.
An indictment was returned by a federal grand jury Wednesday in Baton Rouge...
A key federal report blames poor management, key missteps and a faulty cement job by BP and others for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and the deaths of 11 rig workers.
The search is on for a single-engine Piper PA28 aircraft that disappeared from radar while flying over the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles southeast of Venice. The Coast Guard began looking for the plane around noon yesterday, but didn't locate any signs of a downed aircraft or a debris field...
Three people were airlifted by the Coast Guard to an area hospital after the 36-foot charter boat they were on took on water and then capsized in Southwest Pass.
The Coast Guard's investigation of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion disaster concludes that rig owner Transocean's flaws in safety management, and overall lax on-rig safety practices contributed to the catastrophe. 11 men died when the rig exploded on April 20th of last year...
The Coast Guard reports that testing of an area of possible pollution it investigated in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend contains only trace amounts of hydrocarbons, oil and grease.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The crew of an offshore drilling unit rescued four people after the small plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico 170 miles south of New Orleans.