WELL IS POURING OIL INTO GULF Officials worked Sunday to try to stop oil leaks coming from the deepwater well drilled by a rig that sank last week near Louisiana, but they acknowledged that it could be months before they are able to stem the flow of what is now about 42,000 gallons of oil a day pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Officials determined through weather patterns that the sheen of oil and water, now covering 600 square miles, would remain at least 30 miles from shore for the next three days. But states along the Gulf Coast have been warned to be on alert. TEARFUL REMINISCENCES AT EULOGY FOR MINERS Twenty days later and 20 miles away, they came to say farewell to the dead of Upper Big Branch on Sunday, the widows and orphans, the friends and neighbors, and the president of the United States. The faces of the 29 men killed in the nation's worst coal mining disaster in four decades stared out at their loved ones. 'How can we fail them?' President Barack Obama asked in his eulogy. 'We cannot bring back the 29 men we lost. They are with the Lord now. Our task, here on earth, is to save lives from being lost in another such tragedy.' MISSISSIPPI ASSESSING DAMAGE FROM STORMS Carolyn Veazey fought back tears Sunday outside the remains of her home, a day after a deadly tornado tore through town. 'It's very overwhelming,' said Veazey, 67, who was one of hundreds of Mississippians caught Saturday by violent weather that spawned damaging high winds and powerful tornadoes. The storm, the state's worst natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, left 10 people dead. Hundreds of people remained without power on Sunday. On Sunday, state emergency workers, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army began an extensive relief effort for storm victims. ARIZONA'S NEW IMMIGRATION LAW WIDENS CHASM BETWEEN SIDES Immigration has always polarized residents of Arizona, a major gateway for illegal immigrants. But the new law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday has widened the chasm in a way few here can remember. The law -- barring expected legal challenges before it takes effect this summer -- makes it a state crime for illegal immigrants to be in Arizona, while giving the local police broad powers to check documentation. A few thousand demonstrators massed at the Capitol on Sunday afternoon, denouncing the law as unconstitutional and an open invitation for racial profiling. PRESSURE IS BUILDING ON DISPUTED OFFSHORE WIND FARM Political pressure continues to build on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as he prepares to announce his decision this week on the fate of a proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., that has been mired in legal disputes for nine years. The governors of six East Coast states called on Salazar last week to approve the project, which is proposed by Cape Wind Associates and would be the nation's first offshore wind farm. Turning it down, they said, especially on the grounds that it would harm the view from historic sites, 'would establish a precedent that would make it difficult, if not impossible, to site offshore wind projects anywhere along the Eastern Seaboard.' CAPTURING NEW YORK CITY'S POPULATION IN 10 QUESTIONS: NOT EASY There have been mistakes as the 2010 census tries to count and record New York's richly and often complexly mixed neighborhoods. The Vietnamese version of the questionnaire used the words 'dieu tra' to describe the population tally -- but what the words conveyed was something like a communist government investigation. On Korean forms, 'county' was translated into 'nation.' And some census workers instructed Bangladeshi to check 'Indian' as their ethnicity. The Census Bureau is preparing to send out census takers to households that did not return the forms, and they are training the takers to be especially attuned to these cultural differences -- and subtle word meanings. It has tried to hire immigrants as takers and place them in the communities they represent. 