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U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 30, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Sherri Revette cuts through thick pines, guiding the four-wheeler down dirt and mud trails to her tranquil spot, a sandbar along the Chickasawhay River about a mile behind her home in the backwoods of Mississippi... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 9, 2010 @ 9:03am neoform

CNN -- National Transportation Safety Board officials on Friday will interview crew members of a tour boat that collided with a barge on the Delaware River... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 18, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- With the utmost care and a healthy dose of respect, Monica Ross brought the pontoon boat to a crawl, shut its engine down, and asked for quiet. She was careful not to disturb the small antenna, which floated on the surface of the Crystal River marking the location of Coral, an 800 pound manatee... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 15, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Misty Croslin, the last person to see missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, was spotted in handcuffs on a dock as investigators searched a Florida river for the child. The search continues... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 22, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Officials in North Dakota and Minnesota are catching their breath Monday, if only briefly, after the Red River crested over the weekend... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 19, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Red River kept rising to dangerous levels Friday as those in the area hoped they'd done enough to protect themselves... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 18, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A million sandbags have been filled and are ready to protect Fargo, North Dakota, where the Red River surged nearly 3 feet in 24 hours... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Red River at Fargo, North Dakota, is 11 feet over flood stage and rising. A few more inches of water will push the river to what officials call major flood stage... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Facing rising waters, Red River communities in Minnesota and North Dakota raced to shore up levees and dikes early Tuesday, officials said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 9, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Investigators began their fifth day of scouring New Orleans, Louisiana, for a missing energy executive on Tuesday, and police say he could have fallen into the Mississippi River... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 22, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 could soon have a unique souvenir from their harrowing flight that ended in New York's Hudson River -- although it would be quite a large one... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 28, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A lock break has occurred on the Ohio River near Warsaw, Kentucky, according to the Army Corps of Engineers... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 11, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Coast Guard tried Friday to prevent a boat from entering a security zone on the Potomac River not far from the Pentagon, where President Obama was at an event commemorating the September 11 attacks... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 14, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Two air traffic controllers have been suspended after the collision of a small plane and a helicopter over the Hudson River. A controller handling the plane "was involved in apparently inappropriate conversations on the telephone at the time of the accident," FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said. In addition, "the supervisor was not present in the building as required," Brown said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 10, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Divers will try again today to find the two remaining victims from the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River. Nine people, including five Italian tourists, were aboard the two aircraft when they collided shortly before noon Saturday. Seven bodies have been pulled from the river... 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 Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Scientists hope recordings of orcas attacking a mother whale and her calf will persuade a pair of ailing humpbacks meandering in a freshwater river to head back toward the ocean. The tactic is the latest that increasingly concerned marine biologists ha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 10:28pm neoform

CNN -- Two whales that lost their way more than a week ago spent a second day circling near a Sacramento River bridge Tuesday, about 70 miles from the open waters of the Pacific Ocean. Both whales are wounded, apparently from a run-in with a boat's propeller... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 9:56pm neoform

Canada.com -- A Canadian man was rescued from the Niagara River after trying to cross into the United States in the middle of the night in a rubber raft, telling U.S. authorities it was all so he could pay a credit card bill in person... Read More