Oil Tanker Runs Aground Off Virginia’s Coastline
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A tanker carrying 300,000 barrels of diesel fuel and heating oil ran aground in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast, the Coast Guard said Tuesday. A spokesman said that no oil had leaked from the 600-foot Exxon Princeton, which ran aground Monday night, and that the vessel would be refloated after its load was lightened.
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