Tar balls, sticky, dark clumps have been appearing along the beaches in Florida, staining sand and skin, and even causing Fort Lauderdale Beach to temporarily close. The U.S Coast Guard investigated ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York City residents have been alerted to sightings of 1- to 2-inch tar balls on Fort Wadsworth beaches that have prompted an oil spill cleanup. Coast Guard Sector of New ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — It was beautiful weather for the beach this weekend, but beachgoers found themselves in a sticky situation. The US Coast Guard reported tar balls washing up on the ...

People visiting the Sunshine State may be in for a surprise as mysterious balls are washing ashore in South Florida. Tar balls are popping up from Port Everglades to Palm Beach along the coast of the ...

Sticky black blobs of oil are washing up on Texas’ shorelines again. The tar balls are pieces of oil clumped together that are often remnants of oil spills but can also be created from natural seeps, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on South Florida beaches over the weekend, but so far the source of the black muck remains a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast ...