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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Tourists on a North Carolina vacation destination island were ordered to board the ferries and head for the mainland Wednesday and more evacuatio...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - a powerful Hurricane Earl threatenedto sideswipe much of the East Coast just ahead of Labor Day,worrying countless vacationers who planne&#...

Published: Friday, August 13, 2010, 1:00 AM Special events      Red Dress run Washington Square Park,  Elysian Fields Avenue and Dauphine Street. the new Orleans Has...

7:26P Jimmy Fallon is announcing people sans Twitter blurbs. Please let this hold for the rest of the show. Best Writing in Movie or Mini-Series goes to "Y...

CBC.caMicrobes may be to thank for BP oil spill clean-upCNETBerkeley Lab research study shows that microbes have been degrading the underwater plume created by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at a much greater than predicted rate. Humans may have n...

Aug 25, 3:22 AM EDT Gulf waste heads to landfills, some with problems By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writers AP Photo/J. Bell ...

Defender of the deep: The oil's not goneBy John D. Sutter, CNN Samantha Joye, an oceanographer at the University of Georgia, has emerged as a spokeswoman for the deep ocean. STORY HIGHLIGHTSSamantha Joye is an oceanographer w...

Aug 23, 5:40 PM EDT Gulf residents struggle in aftermath of oil spill By KEVIN McGILL and TOM BREEN Associated Press Writers ...

Aug 23, 3:17 PM EDT Oil spill investigators focus on communication By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI and HARRY R. WEBER Associated Press Writers AP Photo/Melissa Phillip ...

Aug 23, 9:59 AM EDT Hearings into cause of oil spill begin in Houston ...