Drill enters cavern, tests to begin at sinkhole

Published September 24, 2012 1:10am ET



BAYOU CORNE, La. (AP) — Drillers punched into a failed salt cavern and then removed the equipment to make way for tests to learn whether the cavern’s failure caused a huge sinkhole in Assumption Parish.

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