NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a

The Lower Mississippi River is closed from mile marker 99 to mile marker 70, above Head of Passes. Tintomara is registered to Whitefin Shipping Co.,

AP NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard says no one was properly licensed aboard a tugboat that hit a tanker early Wednesday, resulting in a major oil spill on

Visitors to the river watch as Coast Guard personnel work to contain a fuel oil spill in the Mississippi River at the Port of New Orleans, July 23, 2008.

HOUSTON (July 23) - A collision between a chemical tanker and a fuel barge on the Mississippi River spilled over 400000 gallons (1560000 liters) of fuel oil

AP The Coast Guard closed 29 miles (47 kilometers) of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a 600-foot (183-meter) tanker and a barge loaded with fuel