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• DAY 45 | BP OIL SPILL IN THE GULF OF MEXICO

  BP cuts pipe, plans to lower cap over Gulf spill

  METAIRIE, La. -- BP sliced off a pipe with giant shears Thursday in the latest bid to curtail the worst spill in U.S. history, but the cut was jagged and placing a cap over the gusher will now be more challenging, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.

• BP OIL SPILL GULF OF MEXICO

  2 more days till BP knows if well plug try works

  BP has made progress toward plugging its Gulf of Mexico oil spill with mud but won't know for two more days if the fix will really work, the company and the government's point man for the disaster said Friday.

• GULF OF MEXICO | BP OIL SPILL

  BP resumes 'top kill' in effort to stop Gulf oil leak

  Scientists declared the 5-week-old BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico to be the worst in U.S. history on Thursday, while federal and oil industry officials capped a day of confusion by announcing they had suspended and then restarted their mud-pumping "top kill."

• 2 more days till BP knows if well plug try works

  BP started pumping heavy mud into the leaking Gulf of Mexico well Wednesday and said everything was going as planned in the company's boldest attempt yet to plug the gusher that has spewed millions of gallons of oil over the last five weeks.

• Gulf oil spill may be 19 times bigger than originally thought

  The latest glimpse of video footage of the oil spill deep under the Gulf of Mexico indicates that around 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons, a day of crude oil may be spewing from the leaking wellhead, 19 times the previous estimate, an engineering professor told Congress Wednesday.

• GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL

  Fishermen ready to help in Gulf oil spill clean-up

  As perhaps the worst spill in U.S. history keeps spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, local fishermen and businesses are looking to pitch in with the relief effort.

• ST. PETERSBURG

  Officials prepare for oil spill reaching Florida's west coast

  ST. PETERSBURG -- Officials today announced activation of a unified command that will oversee preparations should an oil slick from the Gulf of Mexico foul the west coast of Florida.

• Florida legislators suggest a state ban on offshore drilling

  Two state representatives are calling for an amendment to the Florida Constitution that would ban oil and gas drilling in state-controlled waters off the coast, and Gov. Charlie Crist, a one-time Republican now seeking a U.S. Senate seat as an independent, said Thursday he is open to the idea.

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