PIERRE, S.D. - Crews raced approaching floodwaters Tuesday to complete emergency levees aimed at protecting South Dakota's capital city and two other towns as the swollen Missouri River rolled downstream from the Northern Plains. Meanwhile, the mayor of Minot, N.D., ordered a quarter of the city's residents to evacuate areas along the flooding Souris River. Residents of the upscale community of Dakota Dunes in southeastern South Dakota, below the final dam on the river, have been told to move their possessions to higher ground and be ready to leave their homes by Thursday, a day before releases from the dams are set to increase again.
PIERRE, S.D. - Crews raced approaching floodwaters Tuesday to complete emergency levees aimed at protecting South Dakota's capital city and two other towns as the swollen Missouri River rolled downstream from the Northern Plains. Meanwhile, the mayor of Minot, N.D., ordered a quarter of the city's residents to evacuate areas along the flooding Souris River. Residents of the upscale community of Dakota Dunes in southeastern South Dakota, below the final dam on the river, have been told to move their possessions to higher ground and be ready to leave their homes by Thursday, a day before releases from the dams are set to increase again.
Locals caught in path escape wrath of storm A child warned her father about flying coconuts. A Myrtle Beach resident wondered if those along a nearby road or those a quarter- mile away were ordered to evacuate: Business 17 or Bypass 17?
MINOT, N.D. - North Dakota's vibrant oil industry and advice from communities that learned painful lessons from similar catastrophes should help pull Minot's economy from the muck of its worst-ever flood, officials predict. I don't want to minimize the impact of this flood, because it is huge," said Jerry Chavez, the president of the Minot Area Development Corp., which promotes job creation in the region. "But this economic train that Minot is on, it's going to take a lot more than a flood to derail us.
...More than 11,000 people were forced to evacuate, a quarter of the city. And while flood victims ma...
Sunday's results No. 8 Texas A&M 46, SMU 14: Cyrus Gray and Christine Michael ran for two touchdowns apiece and Ryan Tannehill threw for two more scores to lead A&M, which was anxious to get on the field and bring the focus back to football instead of the school's decision to leave the Big 12.
... in a game called early in the fourth quarter. The game was delayed twice by lightning -- the fi...Fans were asked to evacuate Michigan Stadium late in the third quarter against...
Police evacuate after bomb scare EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Police evacuated about 200 people in a quarter mile section of the downtown for about three hours and called in a bomb squad after discovering a suspicious box in a parked car, but they later determined it to be safe.
CAIRO (AP) -- Libya's eastern port of Tobruk reopened today, and one tanker bound for China was being loaded, officials said, while the European Union said many of the country's oil and gas fields had been wrestled from leader Moammar Gadhafi's hands. The news came as the chief executive of Saudi Arabia's state-run oil giant announced his company had stepped in to compensate for an export shortfall stemming from the unrest in the North African nation, and the kingdom's information minister reaffirmed his country's policy of ensuring stability in oil markets.
... oil equivalent a day in Libya, about a quarter of the country's exports, said it was continuing tto evacuate its employees. The company last week announced sup...
SNYDER: I wanted to ask the secretary what -- you have talked about the priority of treating veterans, even in kind of a mass casualty situation. But most of your facilities are in the middle of very populated areas. And I can assure you if -- you know, I mean, I'm not very far off. I live within a mile of my VA hospital. And if we have a mass casualty situation, I'll be loading up the neighbors in my pick-up truck and we're going to the nearest hospital, and that's going to be you.
... of health for the state, who was the quarterback for all the efforts to try to mitigate the damage ... the ability to show a plan to quickly evacuate and get people out? And then you also have the re...
...-shore shipping for men, and in the French Quarter hotels for women. Those, I interviewed, said they ... breaking disaster, least likely to be evacuated before the storm, and most likely to return to the...
MORGANTOWN - One thing was for sure Sunday at the football season opener in Morgantown. Both West Virginia University and Marshall University fans were sure their team was going to win. But inclement weather, and at least two rain delays put a damper on playing to the last second to find a true winner. After more than four hours of delays, the game was called, with the Mountaineers ahead of the Thundering Herd, 34-13.
...Fans start to evacuate the stadium as others check the sky as the Coal Bo...
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