Archive for May 16th, 2010

BP Confident Latest Try To Capture Oil Will Work

by on Sunday, May 16th, 2010

BP was confident Saturday its latest experiment using a mile-long pipe would capture much of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, even as the company disclosed yet another setback in the environme…

Astronauts Forced Into Shorter Shuttle Survey

by on Sunday, May 16th, 2010

A snagged cable forced Atlantis' astronauts to resort to a more inconvenient and less comprehensive method of inspecting their space shuttle Saturday as they sped toward a weekend rendezvous with the …

TV Chef Cooked Up Murder-For-Hire Plot

by on Sunday, May 16th, 2010

A former television chef and Food Network host is under arrest in an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving homeless people, Santa Monica police said. Juan-Carlos Cruz, one-time host of "Calorie Comma…

Secretive Speed Traders In Spotlight After Crash

by on Sunday, May 16th, 2010

If you saw a penny on the sidewalk, would you pick it up? You may think it's not worth the effort, but a breed of investors who have been in the news do. Using super-fast computers, high-frequency tra…