Reuters: A federal judge ruled that BP was not negligent in the case of a 2009 oil spill and did not violate the terms of its probation from an earlier accident thus escaping further punishment. The decision is a victory for the oil giant as it attempts to rebuild its image after taking the bulk of the blame for the largest U.S. offshore oil spill last year in the Gulf of Mexico. Judge Ralph Beistline, in the U.S. District Court of Alaska, on Tuesday dismissed a petition from federal prosecutors that...