59 ships stopped from traversing Mississippi (AP via Yahoo! News)

24 July 2008, 11:18 am

The Coast Guard has stopped 59 ships from traversing a closed stretch of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico Thursday while hundreds of workers tackled the difficult task of cleaning up about 400,000 gallons of heavy oil that spilled when a barge and tanker collided.... read more

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