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U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 15, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- More than two years after residents of FEMA trailers deployed along the Mississippi Gulf Coast began complaining of breathing difficulties, nosebleeds and persistent headaches, U.S. health officials announced Thursday that long-awaited government tests f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:50am neoform

BBC News -- US emergency teams are searching for bodies a day after a bridge over the Mississippi river collapsed, killing a number of people. At least four people are confirmed dead with up to 30 missing. US officials are not linking the collapse to terrorism... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

Washington Post -- The entire span of an interstate bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour Wednesday, sending vehicles, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water. The Interstate 35W bridge, a major link between Minneapolis a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Winter-like conditions spread snow across the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley early Tuesday, while thunderstorms raked across the Deep South. The Rockies were also expected to be snowy. Snow was forecast across the Dakotas, Minnesota, nort.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 3:00pm mrmdc

SF Gate -- State Farm Insurance Cos. is suspending sales of any new commercial or homeowner policies in Mississippi starting Friday, citing in part a wave of litigation it has faced since Hurricane Katrina, a company official said Wednesday. Mike Fernandez, vice.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- The Mississippi river has burst through one levee in the US state of Illinois and threatens to break many more throughout the American Midwest. Three feet of water flooded the area near the town of Gulfport, closing a bridge and cutting commuters off... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- The ferocity of the Mississippi is entrenched in the lore of people who live along its banks. "The Mississippi is a mighty, mighty, vicious river. It's hard to keep him where he is today. If he decides to get outside those levees, there's nothing in th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 25, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

CBS News -- The whole bridge fell into the river," one shaken woman told a 911 dispatcher seconds after disaster struck on an interstate over the Mississippi. "Everything you've got!" a male caller said five seconds later. "The whole bridge over the river fell dow.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:18pm neoform

CNN -- Investigators need to begin removing debris from the Mississippi River to further the investigation of the I-35W bridge collapse and the search for missing motorists, Hennepin County Sheriff Richard Stanek said Monday. He said investigators have identifie.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:58pm neoform

FOX News -- Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit. The Mississippi Youth Justice Project sued the state Wednesd.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Storms stretched from the Dakotas to the Mississippi Valley early Thursday, while the Southeast and Southwest were roasting. A cold front extended across the northern Plains and the Upper Mississippi Valley, producing scattered showers and strong to se.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:46pm neoform

CNN -- A jury on Thursday convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi, grisly drownings that went unpunished before federal prosecutors re-examined the forgotten case.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 11:22pm neoform

FOX News -- More than 300 potential jurors have been summoned for the trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused of abducting, beating and dumping two young black men into the Mississippi River 43 years ago. James Ford Seale, 71, is to go on trial this coming wee.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 5:50pm neoform

USA Today -- State Farm Fire & Casualty has agreed to re-examine more than 35,000 policyholder claims filed following Hurricane Katrina and to "make millions of dollars available" for additional payments, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale said Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jan 28, 2007 @ 10:08am neoform

Globe and Mail -- They make an odd pair, the battle-hardened 63-year-old black Vietnam War veteran from rural Mississippi and the shy, serious-minded 38-year-old white CBC filmmaker who hails from small-town Ontario... Read More