NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Crews Clean Up Oil Spilled From Barge

Cleanup crews mopped up 30,000 gallons of heavy oil that leaked from a damaged tank on a barge at an Exxon terminal, briefly closing the main entrance to New Jersey’s chief port area, and a second but much smaller spill occurred nearby. Coast Guard officials in New York said they had reopened the Kill Van Kull waterway, between Staten Island, N.Y., and New Jersey, after Wednesday’s spill. In the later spill, more than 500 gallons of heavy crude oil spilled from a Texaco barge into the Arthur Kill waterway off the Exxon Bayway refinery in Bayonne, N.J.