Articles written by Greg Bluestein Associated Press Writer Grand Isle

GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press Writer GRAND ISLE, La.

Waves of gooey tar balls crashed into the white sands of the Florida Panhandle this morning as BP engineers adjusted a sophisticated cap over the Gulf oil gusher, trying to collect the crude now fouling four states. Even though the inverted funnel-like device was set over the leak late Thursday, crude continued to spew into the sea in the nation's worst oil spill. Engineers hoped to close several open vents on the cap throughout the day in the latest attempt to contain the oil. As they worked on the system underwater, the...