No foul play suspected in New Hope car fire
Foul play is not suspected in a car fire that broke out at the BP gas station at Highway 69 and Hughes Road near New Hope on Monday.
Driver flees scene of gas station fire
A car caught fire while it was attached to the pump at a BP gas station in New Hope Monday morning, and the car’s unknown driver fled the scene.
Steve Mullen: The oil isn’t here … yet
The massive oil spill about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, which by energy giant BP’s own estimate has been growing by 5,000 barrels each day since April 20, still hasn’t reached Mississippi’s shores. Yet.
Adele Elliott: Bitter tears
“‘If seven maids with seven mops; Swept it for half a year; Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said; ‘That they could get it clear?’; ‘I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter; And shed a bitter tear.”
When Lewis Carroll wrote “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in 1865, this stanza was referring to “great quantities of sand.” He could not have known how many bitter tears would be shed over beach cleanup.