The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds.

An explosion and fire were reported at an oil well site near Etoile in Nacogdoches County, Texas, with emergency crews responding to the scene.

One person is missing and seven were injured after an explosion at an oil rig in a Louisiana lake just north of North Orleans. The explosion happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday in Lake Pontchartrain off ...

An explosion struck a huge oil rig in Etoile, Texas, sending intense flames into the sky across East Texas, local media ...

METAIRIE, La. — Workers had difficulty monitoring key data during a critical time in the final hour before the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion because so many activities were happening at once, a ...

Officials on Tuesday recovered the remains of five gas rig workers who had been missing since a fiery explosion in eastern Oklahoma a day earlier. Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris said once the ...

Authorities in Nacogdoches County, Texas, are responding to a reported explosion and fire at an oil well site. Emergency crews have been arriving at the scene.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill.

An oil well explosion in Etoile prompted evacuations and road closures as officials manage the ongoing threat, according to the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office.

HOUSTON Attorneys with the Houston trial law firm Arnold & Itkin LLP filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of Aaron Dale Burkeen, one of 11 men still missing after the recent oil rig ...