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U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 9:37am neoform

www.slepton.com -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 8:04pm neoform

Yahoo News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

ABC News -- 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.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 10:54pm neoform

FOX News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 22, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

New York Times -- Early last summer the mayor of this small town east of Atlanta issued a decree: no more soccer in the town park... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- 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... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. 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 Mon May 12, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 16, 2008 @ 8:10am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 10:27pm neoform

Yahoo News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 9, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 1:54am neoform

afp.google.com -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 23, 2007 @ 2:54pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 20, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 19, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 4:26am neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More