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Sandy a super test for Bloomberg, Christie, Cuomo

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 18th

By ANGELA DELLI SANTI and JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL GORMLEYAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - For New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, leadership often came with an empathetic hug. For New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, it came with an angry tirade at utilities slow to restore power. For New York City Mayor

Correction: Gulf Rig Fire story

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 18th

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In a story Nov. 17 about an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously described the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. It is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, not a state agency. A corrected version of the

Correction: Gulf Rig Fire story

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 18th

Coast Guard ends search for 2 after oil rig fire

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 17th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Coast Guard on Saturday evening called off its search for two workers missing after an explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico a day earlier. Four others workers were badly burned in the blaze, which evoked memories

Coast Guard ends search for 2 after oil rig fire

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 17th

Coast Guard searches for 2 after oil platform fire

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 17th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two oil workers remained lost at sea Saturday, a day after a torch being used to cut an oil pipe ignited a blaze that severely burned four others workers on a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The four burned workers are in

Egyptian train hits school bus, 51 killed

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 17th

By AYA BATRAWY and MAMDOUH THABETAssociated Press ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) - A speeding train that crashed into a bus carrying Egyptian children to their kindergarten on Saturday killed 51 and prompted a wave of anger against a government under mounting pressure to rectify the former regime's

2 missing, 4 badly burned in Gulf platform fire

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 16th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Coast Guard was searching late Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that

Defense lawyers say BP rig workers are scapegoats

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 16th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - While BP has resolved a sweeping criminal probe of its role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, two company employees charged in the deaths of 11 rig workers claim the Justice Department is trying to make them scapegoats

Panetta in Cambodia for talks on US-Asia security

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 16th

By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security Writer SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that the U.S. would participate in three Southeast Asian military exercises next year. Panetta was in Cambodia for talks with his counterparts from 10 Southeast Asian nations in