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OAKLAND, Calif. — The Iraq War veteran injured during a clash between police and anti-Wall Street protesters wasn't taking part in the demonstrations out of economic want. Scott Olsen, 24, makes a good living at a software company and rents a hillside apartment with views of San Francisco Bay. And yet, his friends say, he felt so strongly about economic inequality in the country that he fought for that he slept at a San Francisco protest camp after work. "He felt you shouldn't wait until something is affecting you to get o...
BP said Monday it was siphoning more than one-fifth of the oil that has been spewing into the Gulf for almost a month, but worries escalated that the ooze may reach a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast of the U.S. BP PLC chief operating officer Doug Suttles said this morning on NBC's "Today" that a mile-long (1.6 kilometer) tube was funneling a little more than 1,000 barrels — 42,000 gallons (nearly 159,000 liters) — of crude a day from a blown well into a tanker ship. The...
Crews try to reach smoldering homes after blast JASON DEAREN,Associated Press Writer JULIANA BARBASSA,Associated Press Writer SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — All that was left of some houses Friday were chimneys, rising from still smoldering ruins. Burned-out cars sat along ash-covered streets. And a rescue worker with a dog searched door to door for missing people. The day after a gas line ruptured and a towering fireball roared through a suburban San Francisco neighborhood, killing four people, officials were trying to d...
