Louisiana, Oil Rig | featured news

Two people were missing and four people were airlifted to a hospital Friday after an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico some 17 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La., the U.S. Coast Guard told NBC News.

An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused a massive oil spill.

A spill that threatens to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster begins washing ashore along the Gulf Coast, reaching the Mississippi River delta.

As a sunken rig continues to spew 42,000 gallons of oil a day off the Louisiana coast, health and fishing industry experts say seafood will remain safe to eat.

Coast Guard discovers oil seeping from the damaged well that fed a massive rig that exploded off Louisiana's coast.