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The crew of the Deepwater Horizon was ready to hit pay dirt. The massive rig — owned by the drilling company Transocean and leased to the energy giant BP — was finishing up preparations to drill an oil well deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles (80 km) south of the Louisiana coast.
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A vehicle dropped several stories from the seventh floor of the Whitney Parking Garage on Camp Street and landed on top of a building Monday night...
New Orleans police have arrested the bridge operator who was on duty during an accident that left a 17-year veteran of the NOPD dead. The accident happened in the early morning hours of May 20, 2008 on the Judge Seeber Bridge, when 43-year-old Tommie Felix was killed after he plummeted off the bridge. READ STORY
Authorities planned to search a southern Louisiana marsh by boat Monday for clues that might determine the cause of a helicopter, operated by PHI Inc., accident that killed eight people bound for an offshore oil platform. Two pilots and seven passengers were aboard when the helicopter went down near Houma, about 100 miles southwest of New Orleans and only one survivor.
In June, a PHI Air Medical helicopter crashed in Texas, killing four people. The accident in the Sam Houston National Forest killed the pilot, paramedic, nurse and a patient who was being transported from Huntsville to Houston.
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