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Monday, January 28, 2013  Crude oil leaked into the Mississippi River and the waterway was closed.

Thursday, November 15, 2012  BP agrees to plead guilty and pay a record $4.5 billion over Gulf spill; 3 employees charged

Tuesday, July 10, 2012  The July 25, 2010, pipeline rupture spread oil across roughly 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Mich., fouling wildlife habitat and closing a large swath of the river to boaters and anglers.

Friday, June 15, 2012  Stephen Baldwin awarded nothing in lawsuit against Kevin Costner over lucrative BP contract

Monday, June 11, 2012  Crews with the Irmo Fire District are on the scene of an overturned tractor trailer working to clear a small diesel fuel spill.

Monday, May 07, 2012  A train carrying chemicals struck a truck in Calhoun County Monday afternoon.

Friday, April 20, 2012  Federal regulators want to know if, and where, leases for drilling oil and natural gas should be issued along the mid- and south Atlantic coast.

Friday, April 20, 2012  FDA says no risk from Gulf seafood amid environmental worry over sick fish at oil spill site

Sunday, February 19, 2012  Columbia firefighters have reopened a section of Blossom Street, after a gas spill Sunday afternoon.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012  Honea Path Police said a mother was charged with unlawful neglect of a child after nurses found maggots in her child's diaper and the baby tested positive for marijuana.

Thursday, January 12, 2012  A new study shows USC is pumping in a lot of money into the state's economy.

Saturday, December 24, 2011  Former Clemson All-American C.J. Spiller had a career high 111 yards rushing on 16 carries to help the Buffalo Bills to a 40-14 over the Denver Broncos on Saturday afternoon.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  State health officials say more than 5,000 gallons of sewage has spilled into the Broad River near Columbia after a pump failure at a prison.

Thursday, December 08, 2011  Coast Guard crews and a private contractor are removing oil and other hazardous materials from a yacht that sank in the Cooper River near Charleston Harbor last weekend.

Tuesday, November 08, 2011  Oil spill defendants want to keep investigations blaming them for disaster out of civil trial