en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/us/town/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/us/water_still_rising_as_damage_top/ Levee break threatens town But inconvenience turned to frustration is some parts of Illinois Tuesday after one levee failed. Another 27 levees are in danger of overflowing, according to the federal government. Interactive map: Rampaging rivers Ri news us 2008-06-18 08:15:39 http://www.newsique.com/us/water_still_rising_as_damage_top/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25200788/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/water_still_rising_as_damage_top/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/rural_nevadans_begin_cleanup_aft/ A powerful earthquake damaged hundreds of homes, toppled chimneys and reduced part of a historical district to rubble, but residents of rural Wells, Nevada, town are grateful it wasn't worse. No one was killed and no serious injuries were reported after t news us 2008-02-22 08:19:18 http://www.newsique.com/us/rural_nevadans_begin_cleanup_aft/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/22/nevada.quake/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/rural_nevadans_begin_cleanup_aft/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/feds_scramble_to_prevent_massive/ It could be a month or two before work begins to ease the threat of a catastrophic flood in a historic mining town, officials say. More than a billion gallons of water contaminated with heavy metals is trapped in a tunnel in the mountains above the town o news us 2008-02-20 08:13:16 http://www.newsique.com/us/feds_scramble_to_prevent_massive/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/20/mining.town.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [9] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/feds_scramble_to_prevent_massive/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/racism_and_resistance_the_strugg/ Almost a year ago, in the small northern Louisiana town of Jena, a group of white students hung three nooses from a tree in front of Jena High School. This set into motion a season of racial tension and incidents that culminated in six Black youths facing news us 2007-08-21 09:37:13 http://www.newsique.com/us/racism_and_resistance_the_strugg/ www.slepton.com http://www.slepton.com/slepton/viewcontent.pl?id=693 Interesting [9] 66 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/racism_and_resistance_the_strugg/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/booming_utah_town_is_short_on_bo/ On Friday and Saturday nights, the line to get a bottle of wine at the liquor store in this southern Utah town can stretch out the back door. The storage area of the town's lone liquor store is often stacked so high and so wide with cases of alcohol it's news us 2007-05-28 20:04:54 http://www.newsique.com/us/booming_utah_town_is_short_on_bo/ Yahoo News http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070528/lone_liquor_store.html?.v=2 http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/us/booming_utah_town_is_short_on_bo/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/atheists_in_a_town_of_believers/ Three years ago the Smalkowski family moved to an 80-acre ranch in Oklahoma, and Nicole Smalkowski, who was 13 years old at the time, was excited about it. "We have a whole bunch of land that's ours, you can walk on it, you can camp on your own land." news us 2007-05-14 09:32:07 http://www.newsique.com/us/atheists_in_a_town_of_believers/ ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=3164811&page=1 http://www.newsique.com/sources/abc_news/ 91 Interesting [12] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/atheists_in_a_town_of_believers/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/alaska_town_giving_away_free_lan/ Anderson, a little town in Alaska's interior, has no gas station, no grocery store and no traffic lights, but it does have plenty of woodsy land — and it's free to anyone willing to put down roots in the often-frozen ground. In a modern twist on the news us 2007-03-17 22:54:52 http://www.newsique.com/us/alaska_town_giving_away_free_lan/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259264,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Amazing [21] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/us/alaska_town_giving_away_free_lan/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/refugees_find_hostility_and_hope/ Early last summer the mayor of this small town east of Atlanta issued a decree: no more soccer in the town park. news us 2007-01-22 09:39:11 http://www.newsique.com/us/refugees_find_hostility_and_hope/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/us/21fugees.html?ex=1327035600&en=2134226adcd18953&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Important [14] 100 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/refugees_find_hostility_and_hope/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/ny_town_seeks_foreclosure_soluti/ In 2005, when Denise Bolds was looking to refinance her four-bedroom Victorian home in the Hudson Valley town of Poughkeepsie, she was intrigued by a mailing that said she'd been "pre-selected" for a loan program that could lower her monthly payments. news us 2008-06-26 08:16:10 http://www.newsique.com/us/ny_town_seeks_foreclosure_soluti/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25248186/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/ny_town_seeks_foreclosure_soluti/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/whos_afraid_of_the_flood_not_han/ Reports of this town’s impending demise have been greatly exaggerated. Take it from John Hark, emergency management director for the boyhood hometown of America’s most beloved literary curmudgeon, Mark Twain. “We think we’re good,” Hark sa news us 2008-06-18 08:15:38 http://www.newsique.com/us/whos_afraid_of_the_flood_not_han/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25218759/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/whos_afraid_of_the_flood_not_han/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/a_small_towns_bid_to_stave_off_t/ Mayor Jo Anne Smiley surveyed the bustling effort to save her tiny historic town from the rapidly rising Mississippi River, took a deep breath and ran down her mental checklist. “Foodwise, I think we’re OK for today,” she said. “My husband is g news us 2008-06-16 08:14:34 http://www.newsique.com/us/a_small_towns_bid_to_stave_off_t/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25180311/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/a_small_towns_bid_to_stave_off_t/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/tornado-ravaged_oklahoma_town_mi/ Stunned survivors picked through the little that was left of their communities Sunday after tornadoes tore across the Plains and South, killing at least 22 people in three states and leaving behind a trail of destruction and stories of loss. At least 1 news us 2008-05-12 08:12:58 http://www.newsique.com/us/tornado-ravaged_oklahoma_town_mi/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/288100921/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/tornado-ravaged_oklahoma_town_mi/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/colo_fires_force_mass_evacuation/ At least two people died after wind-driven wildfires burned into a southeast Colorado town and an Army post. An air tanker pilot was also killed when his plane went down while battling another blaze. At least 20 buildings were damaged in Ordway and abo news us 2008-04-16 08:10:24 http://www.newsique.com/us/colo_fires_force_mass_evacuation/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24145874/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/colo_fires_force_mass_evacuation/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/tennessee_town_has_run_out_of_wa/ As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve. With a twist of the wrist, he releases the tank's meager wat news us 2007-11-02 22:27:56 http://www.newsique.com/us/tennessee_town_has_run_out_of_wa/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/town_without_water;_ylt=AqaZrojpF368Ke7i_W1sxwqs0NUE http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/tennessee_town_has_run_out_of_wa/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/shooting_stuns_wis_town_this_is_/ Ted Paque usually exchanges friendly greetings with everyone he encounters on his way to work at Pitts Bus Service. On Monday, though, there were no cheery hellos as this grieving town of 1,961 tried to understand why an off-duty sheriff's deputy murdered news us 2007-10-09 08:24:34 http://www.newsique.com/us/shooting_stuns_wis_town_this_is_/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/166985655/2007-10-08-wisconsin_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/shooting_stuns_wis_town_this_is_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/six_teens_killed_as_wisconsin_de/ A sheriff's deputy went on a shooting rampage Sunday, killing his ex-girlfriend and five other teenagers at a house party in a small town in Wisconsin, authorities said. The 20-year-old deputy and all those shot were all part of a close-knit group of f news us 2007-10-08 01:54:00 http://www.newsique.com/us/six_teens_killed_as_wisconsin_de/ afp.google.com http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jCxT3nGn9_KgJlVOLf1ATPUam0ow Under Rated [1] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/six_teens_killed_as_wisconsin_de/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/town_would_like_a_stake_through_/ Four miles north of this High Sierra town, the front-porch gang at the Grizzly Store recently threw a shindig to ring out another fishing season at Lake Davis and curse the dreaded predator that has haunted these parts for the past decade. Folks came o news us 2007-09-23 14:54:17 http://www.newsique.com/us/town_would_like_a_stake_through_/ Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pike23sep23,0,1465879.story?coll=la-home-center http://www.newsique.com/sources/latimes/ 93 Under Rated [1] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/town_would_like_a_stake_through_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/town_braces_for_massive_rally_in/ For weeks, Mychal Bell expected to find out his punishment Thursday for his alleged role in a school beating that has thrust racial tensions in a tiny Southern town into the national spotlight -- and onto the political stage. Instead, he and five other bl news us 2007-09-20 08:18:40 http://www.newsique.com/us/town_braces_for_massive_rally_in/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/20/jena.six/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/town_braces_for_massive_rally_in/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/civil_jena_six_town_braces_for_r/ In some ways, this town is still the same rural community it was a half-century ago, before integration pushed blacks and whites together in schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. African-Americans, who are a little more than a tenth of the town's near news us 2007-09-19 08:19:30 http://www.newsique.com/us/civil_jena_six_town_braces_for_r/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/158393120/2007-09-18-Jena_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Interesting [4] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/civil_jena_six_town_braces_for_r/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/birth_of_clean_town_ave_maria/ Ten years ago, Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan had a vision to create a "fresh, faithful voice" in Catholic higher education. Now he has both a university and a brand-new town to put it in. On Saturday, the town will open its doors to the public. N news us 2007-07-19 04:26:03 http://www.newsique.com/us/birth_of_clean_town_ave_maria/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/135156204/2007-07-18-ave-maria_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/birth_of_clean_town_ave_maria/#comments