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Army Corps Preps to Blast Levee to Save Town; Legal Tussle Looms
By not in system - AOL NewsEAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- As ominous as a floating hearse, twin barges creep up the Mississippi River carrying a payload of explosives bound for southeast Missouri and a levee facing the prospect of being sacrificed to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just upriver. The Army Corps of Engineers' tugboat-shoved shipments were to arrive Thursday, the same day Missouri stood poised to press a federal judge to block the corps from possibly blasting a gaping hole in the earthen berm to ease waters rising around Cairo, Ill., nestled where the swollen Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet. Cairo's mayor, ...
Floodwaters Threaten to Overrun Midwest Levees
By not in system - AOL NewsPOPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Floodwaters threatened earthen levees protecting thousands of homes in the nation's midsection Tuesday, rising so fast in some places that panicked residents didn't have time to pile up sandbags. Storms have unleashed more than a foot of rain across the region, and the forecast offered little hope for relief. Another, larger system was brewing along the same path, bringing several more days of rain and the possibility of tornadoes. The greatest flooding threat loomed in the southeastern Missouri community of Poplar Bluff, a town of 17,000 residents about 130 ...
Residents Flee Missouri Flooding as 2 Die in Arkansas Storms
By not in system - AOL NewsPOPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - Thunder roared and tornado warning sirens blared, and all emergency workers in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff could do Monday was hope the saturated levee holding back the Black River would survive yet another downpour. Murky water flowed over the levee at more than three dozen spots and crept toward homes in the flood plain. Some had already flooded. If the levee broke - and forecasters said it was in imminent danger of doing so - some 7,000 residents in and around Poplar Bluff would be displaced. One thousand homes were evacuated earlier in the day. ...
Storms Could Spawn Tornadoes, Life-Threatening Flooding This Week
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsThe final week of April will be similar to the first three, with dangerous thunderstorms over a large portion of the U.S. The forecast includes the potential for tornadoes, life-threatening flash flooding and large hail in highly populated regions from the southern Plains to the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic region from today through Wednesday. Potential tornado-spawning thunderstorms will stretch from eastern Oklahoma and northern Texas to Pennsylvania today and tonight, encompassing the cities of St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Dallas. The greatest risk within this larger area appears to be in ...
St. Louis Area Cleans Up After Devastating Tornado
By not in system - AOL NewsST. LOUIS -- Debris from splintered homes covered the ground in neighborhoods around St. Louis, while topped trees and overturned cars littered lawns and driveways. From the air, one home looked like a dollhouse that had had its roof lifted off. Looking down, the dining room table and other contents could be seen, damp in lingering rain. Amid such damage, officials appeared awed that a tornado that roared through the area Friday night, striking the airport and several nearby suburbs, hadn't seriously injured anyone. "It almost feels like a little bit of divine intervention when you look at ...
15-State Tornado Outbreak Deadliest Since 2008
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The devastation is stunning -- homes and lives shattered as the deadliest swarm of twisters in three years battered up to 15 states. Ultimately, this could turn out to be among the top 10 three-day outbreaks for number of tornadoes, though experts can't be sure until all the reports are sorted, said Greg Carbin of the federal Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. While tornadoes occur regularly, their power always shocks. This time it was storms battering their way from Oklahoma to North Carolina, claiming at least 44 lives, almost half of those in North Carolina. It was ...
Thunderstorms, Possible Tornadoes Threaten Plains and East Coast
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsA powerful spring storm system will spawn dangerous thunderstorms over a large area from the Plains to the East Coast, starting later Sunday and continuing through Tuesday. The system includes the threat of large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. The storm will also produce more late-season snow in the Northern Plains and cause additional flooding problems from the Plains to the East. The stretch from Chicago southward to Dallas will be the region at risk for dangerous thunderstorms from later Sunday through Sunday night, with the greatest risk area in Illinois, Missouri and ...
FBI Asks Public to Help Decode Baffling Notes From 1999 Slaying
By David Lohr - AOL NewsInvestigators trying to solve the mysterious death of a Missouri man 12 years ago are asking for the public's help in deciphering coded notes found on the victim in what has become one of the top unsolved cases in the FBI's cryptanalysis division. "We will take any help we can get," Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County (Mo.) Sheriff Department told AOL News. "We are hopeful the notes will give us a little more information. Any credible information we can get, we will look into." The investigation began on June 30, 1999, in West Alton, a community of about 600 people located roughly 30 ...
Hispanic Population Passes 50 Million in US but Raises Question
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Hispanic population topped 50 million for the first time, new census data shows, as Latinos became the second-largest population group in the United States. The Census Bureau today released its final numbers for the 2010 census, which show how rapid growth of the Asian and Hispanic population dramatically transformed the U.S. into a more ethnically diverse country than it was 10 years ago. The swelling Hispanic population made up more than half the 27.3 million increase in population in the U.S. since 2000. While the nation's population grew by 9.7 percent in the past ...
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