Daily News Feed 9.3.2010/Vocab: Cachinnate

BP: Gulf oil spill cost hits $8 billion
BP said Friday it spent $8 billion so far on the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The cost includes containment, relief well drilling, static kill and cementing, grants to the Gulf states, claims paid and federal costs, the energy giant reported.

BP said more than 28,000 people and 4,000 vessels are still involved in responding to the spill. No oil has flowed from the busted well since July 15. (Continue Reading…)

Earl skirts across Outer Banks, flooding coastal areas
(CNN) — A weakened Hurricane Earl brushed North Carolina’s Outer Banks overnight, flooding coastal highways and sending residents inland.

“In multiple locations, waves have crashed over the tops of the dunes and are now flooding several portions of the main state highway on both the north and south sides through the Outer Banks. This is all happening south of the area called the Oregon Inlet,” CNN’s David Mattingly reported from the community of Waves. “The water is six to eight inches deep and seems to be getting deeper by the minute.”

Ben McNeely from Charlotte, North Carolina, was riding the storm out in the community of Manteo. (Continue Reading…)

Ohio’s Governor Spares Life of a Death Row Inmate
CINCINNATI — A death row inmate convicted of murdering a child and two adults was spared the death penalty Thursday by Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio, who said there were possible problems with the evidence. A diverse group of Republicans and Democrats, attorneys general and federal and state judges and prosecutors had rallied around the case of the inmate, Kevin Keith, 46, after his lawyers uncovered evidence they say casts doubt on his guilt. (Continue Reading …)

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