First the National Guard soldiers stacked the Pin Oak levee with sandbags, raising it by as much as 4 feet. ...more

June 29, 2008

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

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

Water from the swollen Mississippi River surged over more than 10 levees Thursday, flooding huge swaths of Missouri farmland as thousands of volunteers continued to pile up sandbags in a desperate bid to protect their communities. ...more

June 20, 2008

Even before the Iowa River used Oakville as a shortcut to the Mississippi, there wasn't much there: A post office, a convenience store, a tavern and a little restaurant. ...more

June 19, 2008