Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge’s decision to grant a new trial to a former BP engineer convicted of obstructing justice in an investigation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The notice of appeal in the case of Kurt Mix was filed Friday in U.S. District Court, where Mix was tried, and at […]
Feds Get Time to Decide on Retrial for BP Engineer
Federal prosecutors have been granted additional time to decide whether they should appeal an order throwing out the conviction of a former BP engineer in the 2010 Gulf oil spill. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval granted the prosecutors’ motion Thursday Duval ruled last week that Kurt Mix was entitled to a new trial on an […]
Juror Interviews at Issue in Ex-BP Engineer’s Case
A former BP engineer is basing his request for a new trial on improper interviews with jurors who had convicted him of trying to obstruct a federal investigation of the company’s 2010 Gulf oil spill, federal prosecutors say. Lawyers for engineer Kurt Mix asked early this month for a new trial, saying they had learned […]
LA Pipeline Blaze Could Burn Until Thursday
A fire raging in a coastal Louisiana bayou where a tugboat struck a gas pipeline appeared to have diminished Wednesday night, but is far from extinguished, the Coast Guard said. See the photos here. Smoke was still visible in New Orleans, 30 miles to the north, and officials say they don’t expect the fire sparked […]
Super Bowl Outage Traced to Faulty Device
The failure of a device meant to protect the power supply to the Superdome caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadium’s power company said Friday as it took the blame for the outage that brought the game to a halt for more than a half-hour. Officials of Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of New Orleans-based […]