A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed Friday - undone by a burrowing muskrat. ...more

June 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County officials gave a green light Thursday for a new Sweetbay grocery store proposed for a site just east of the Suncoast Parkway. ...more

June 27, 2008

More than six decades after the U.S. Army stopped using its Brooksville airfield for chemical weapons training, officials today will give the public a final briefing on a project meant to ensure no toxic material still lurked underground. ...more

June 26, 2008

PUBLIC BRIEFING WRAPS UP PROJECT ...more

June 25, 2008

The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississippi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope. ...more

June 25, 2008

With a few days to go before the last stretch of the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water. ...more

June 24, 2008

The flooding in the Midwest has brought freight traffic on the upper Mississippi to a standstill, stranding more than 100 barges loaded with grain, cement, scrap metal, fertilizer and other products while shippers wait for the water to drop. ...more

June 21, 2008

Florida officials are threatening to sue the federal government unless the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reconsiders its plan to withhold more water from federal reservoirs and lakes in Georgia. ...more

June 21, 2008

The federal government predicts that 27 levees could potentially overflow along the Mississippi River if the weather forecast is on the mark and a massive sandbagging effort fails to raise the level of the levees, according to a map obtained Monday by The Associated Press. ...more

June 17, 2008

Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000. ...more

June 14, 2008