Video: Mobile brothers design skimmer that BP wants, but doesn't use | al.com

Video: Mobile brothers design skimmer that BP wants, but doesn't use | al.com: "One month ago, BP representatives and contractors were giving each other high-fives as they watched a skimming system developed by Mobile brothers Bob and Billy Cox quickly gobble up oil four miles off the Alabama-Florida line, Billy Cox recalled this week."

Jimmy Buffett tickets for Gulf Shores concert were gone in moments (with video) | al.com

Jimmy Buffett tickets for Gulf Shores concert were gone in moments (with video) | al.com: "Tickets for Jimmy Buffett’s free July 1 concert in Gulf Shores appeared to evaporate the instant they were made available this morning.
Organizers of the show had said 35,000 tickets would be allotted. They went on sale at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster, and within five to 10 minutes the service was reporting that none were available."

As tarballs reach Dauphin Island, container placed over oil spill flounders | al.com

As tarballs reach Dauphin Island, container placed over oil spill flounders | al.com: "Scattered, nickel-size tarballs thought to be part of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore at Dauphin Island Saturday. Meanwhile, BP PLC officials were stymied in their effort to use a 100-ton concrete box to contain the leak at its source.

Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier said that officials just before noon began receiving reports of tarballs from points around the fishing pier at the public beach and areas westward."