MISSISSIPPI
Newsflyer 24 May 2013
Major Truss Bridge Collapses in Washington, another Ohio River Truss Bridge Doomed, another Iowa Truss Bridge's future in Limbo, Hope for Minnesota Bridge? O...
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:29 AM
Home Sweet Home: China in Minnesota
All of you who've read my posts are awesome. Thank you for following along. While I'm sad to see this journey end, I'm excited with anticipation because this was just my first try. I'll be writing man...
Posted on 10/27/12 at 11:31 AM
Wistful Wednesday: The Headwaters
This is an old family photo. We are not sure exactly who it is. We think it might be Great Uncle Herman. I wish we knew for sure who it was. It is a marvelous old photo.  ...
Posted on 6/29/11 at 6:03 AM
Live from the Boulder Theater
Im in kind of a blues kick currently so I picked a show from the North Mississippi Allstars. Currently these guys, who really are from Mississippi, are opening for Robert Plant on his tour. The mu...
Posted on 5/23/11 at 4:00 AM
Things that streak through the sky and go boom in the night
Transcontinental jets used the sky as a chalkboard yesterday afternoon. Three planes moving along different paths left contrails that intersected to create at least two letters of the alphabet, para...
Posted on 1/16/11 at 1:08 PM
Miss. man accused of mailing suspected ricin
A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government" were trying to ruin his reputation.By Associated Press , April 18, 2013
Miss. man accused of mailing suspected ricin
A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government" were trying to ruin his reputation.By Associated Press , April 18, 2013
Michelle Obama highlights obesity progress in MS
Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates and said its example should inspire the rest of the country.February 27, 2013
4 elephants OK after circus truck wrecks in Miss.
A circus official says a truck pulling a trailer full of elephants ran off an interstate in southern Mississippi over the weekend, but the four pachyderms and the driver weren't harmed.October 15, 2012
Mississippi River levees, floodwalls require round-the-clock watch
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — All along the swollen Mississippi River, hundreds of thousands of lives depend on a small army of engineers, deputies and even prison inmates keeping round-the-clock watch at the many floodwalls and earthen levees holding the water back.May 16, 2011
La. residents warned to flee river
By By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press , May 16, 2011
As water creeps closer, residents warned: Get out
KROTZ SPRINGS, La. (AP) — Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub.May 15, 2011
La. floodgate opens, diverting Mississippi River
MORGANZA, La. (AP) — Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 25 feet deep.May 15, 2011
Spillway to open today, flooding Cajun country
By By Holbrook Mohr, The Associated Press , May 14, 2011
Floodwaters rise in river delta
By By Holbrook Mohr, The Associated Press , May 12, 2011
Floodwaters rise in the poverty-stricken Delta
Floodwaters from the bloated Mississippi River and its tributaries spilled across farm fields, cut off churches, washed over roads and forced people from their homes Wednesday in the Mississippi Delta, a poverty-stricken region only a generation or two removed from sharecropping days.May 12, 2011
Mississippi Delta braces for historic flood
The bulging Mississippi River rolled into the fertile Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, threatening to swamp antebellum mansions, wash away shotgun shacks, and destroy fields of cotton, rice and corn in a flood of historic proportions.May 11, 2011
Anxiety rising along the flood-swollen Mississippi
People along the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries packed their belongings and emergency workers feverishly filled sandbags as high water pushed its way downstream Wednesday in a slow-motion disaster that could break flood records dating to the 1920s.By By Adrian Sainz, The Associated Press , May 05, 2011
Police: 3 die in truck collision with school buses
At least a dozen high school students were taken to hospitals and three adults were killed when a tractor-trailer sideswiped a school bus and collided head-on with a second school bus Tuesday on a highway bridge in northern Mississippi, authorities said.February 09, 2011
Flights canceled, roads icy as storm hits South
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A blast of winter weather pushed across the South on Sunday, coating bridges and roads with snow, sleet and freezing rain and causing hundreds of flight cancelations.January 09, 2011
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