Companies begin quest for oil, gas off Fla. coast PENSACOLA, Fla. - Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide. Pilot killed in S.C. Blue Angel crash A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot. Vote Republican, America is at war: Bush President George W. Bush made his final plea to voters ahead of knife-edge congressional elections, telling them to vote Republican if they want America's full protection.