Two U.S. fighter jets escorted an Air France passenger plane to a safe landing in New York Monday morning following one of several threats that were made against commercial aircraft. An anonymous threat came in a telephone call to a Maryland State police barracks Monday, prompting the military to scramble F-15 jets as Air France […]
Hazmat-suited workers continue to clean up the oil-laden beaches at Santa Barbara’s Refugio State Beach on Friday and have been working around the clock after Tuesday’s rupture of an oil pipeline, owned by Plains All American Pipeline, sent thousands of gallons of crude flowing into the ocean and leaving an unsightly layer of black tarry […]
In an indictment today by a Grand Jury in Baltimore, six police officers were charged in connection with Freddy Gray’s death last month. 25-year-old Gray died from spinal injuries while in the custody of Baltimore police and his death sparked off a wave of protests in that city that spanned several days and spread across […]
Oil spill amounts in the Santa Barbara oil spill that occurred on Tuesday have been revised upward from the original 21,000 gallons that Plains All American Pipeline Company stated and the U.S. Coast Guard repeated. The pipeline company says that as much as 105,000 gallons may have escaped from the burst pipeline. It is unclear […]