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BP, Gulf Spill Partners Sue Each Other

MIAMI -- After being hammered for a year over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP is going on the offensive with multibillion-dollar lawsuits seeking to shift at least part of the blame to those who owned the ill-fated rig or designed a failed safety device or supplied cement that didn't hold. Those companies - Transocean,...

Old Times Not Forgotten: Civil War at 150

A hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a young staffer of the Museum of the Confederacy balanced his laptop across his knees, poised to get out the news as soon as it was official. Who would be chosen "Person of the Year, 1861"? Five...

BP Has Made Only 1 Final Payment: $10M to Texas Firm

WASHINGTON -- BP's oil spill pay czar has paid only one of nearly 91,000 claims seeking final payment from the oil giant's $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of the spill -- and that was $10 million to a Texas firm, according to the fund's records. The lone payment fueled accusations of favoritism and delay...

Olbermann and MSNBC: A Failing Relationship

NEW YORK -- Keith Olbermann's exit from MSNBC appeared abrupt to viewers of his show, but the talk-show host and his network were involved "in a relationship that's been failing for a long time," an NBC Universal executive said Saturday. Olbermann's announcement at the end of Friday's "Countdown" that it would be his last...

$1.8M in Family Sex-Abuse Wrongful-Arrest Case

A Michigan township has agreed to pay a $1.8 million wrongful-arrest settlement to a couple cleared of sex-abuse charges involving their severely autistic teenage daughter. Charges against the couple, Julian and Thal Wendrow, were dropped in 2008 for lack of evidence. He was accused of raping his daughter for years and...