Cap back after robot nudge stalls oil collection

NEW ORLEANS (AP)—A cap was back in place on BP’s broken oil well after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massive Gulf of Mexico spill.

Engineers using remote-controlled submarines repositioned the cap late Wednesday after it had been off for much of the day.

It had captured 700,000 gallons of oil in 24 hours before one of the robots bumped into it late in the morning.