Hopedale

HOPEDALE, La. - In a way, they are the invisible victims of the BP oil disaster: deck hands and other day laborers who get paid in cash, don't receive W2 forms, may not file tax returns and have little or no way of proving they are losing income because of the spill.

HOPEDALE, La. - Manuel Meyer was forbidden from dropping his crab traps in the Gulf, and he couldn't just sit at home.

HOPEDALE, La. - When Kenny LeFebvre is out of work, so are the two men who help him haul glistening blue crabs from the waters he's fished since he quit school at 14.