Associated Press Writer= STEVENSON, Ala. (AP) â A retention pond at a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-burning power plant leaked waste into a northeast Alabama creek Friday, ramping up pressure on the utility that already is trying to clean up ...
9 Jan 2009
The guardian of presidents isn't being very nice to the Mother of Presidents. On Inauguration Day, the U.S. Secret Service will close all bridges crossing the Potomac River from Virginia to Washington and bar vehicles from interstates 66 and 395. The ...
9 Jan 2009
Jenny Kratzer, a freshman at River Ridge High, sends a message — in German — to a classmate using Moodle, a secure social network monitored by teachers. NEW PORT RICHEY — The words taped to each laptop in River Ridge High's computer lab left no ...
9 Jan 2009
WICHITA, Kan. (Jan. 7) - No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam Herrman disappeared from the mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents. But the biggest mystery may be why no one reported him ...
9 Jan 2009
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's economic team is talking with the Bush administration about having Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ask Congress within the next week for access to the $350 billion remaining in the financial bailout fund, officials on ...
9 Jan 2009
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peruvian authorities have moved jailed New Yorker Lori Berenson to a capital prison to treat a chronic back ailment that could complicate her five-month-old pregnancy. Prison spokeswoman Janet Sanchez says prison facilities and ...
9 Jan 2009
Authorities have identified a man found dead beside the Olentangy River on Monday but are withholding his name until they can notify relatives. The man's family is thought to be in the West African country of Ghana, Grandview Heights Police Chief Rollin Kiser said, and police have had trouble reaching them.
9 Jan 2009
YAKIMA -- Work is being done to shore up the levee along the swollen Yakima River. The Army Corps of Engineers is reinforcing a section downstream from the terrace heights bridge. That work could take a couple days.
9 Jan 2009
BENTON COUNTY -- The National Weather Service expects the Yakima River in Benton County to reach flood level by 10 PM tonight. Right now, the water is only about six inches below flood level.
9 Jan 2009
Water levels in the Yakima River keep rising and more flooding could be headed our way.
9 Jan 2009
Associated Press - January 9, 2009 7:35 PM ET BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) - Leeson Electric Corp. blames the global economy for plans to temporarily lay off of 60 to 80 employees, or about 20%...
9 Jan 2009
A Middlesex County judge sentenced the former South River fire chief to three years in state prison for taking $2,200 from a fire department lockbox, according to a report on MyCentralJersey.com. Charles Reinwald pleaded guilty in October to official misconduct...
9 Jan 2009
Pike County Emergency Services and East Kentucky Rescue and fire departments are searching the river downstream from Tessmer's home. Showing:. Oldest first, Newest first, Most-recommended first, Least-recommended first ...
9 Jan 2009
Baltimore County Police have issued an arrest warrant for Warren Jerome Yates, 26, and charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Shirley Worcester on Wednesday night January 7.
9 Jan 2009
ice while on a bike ride along the Fox River last weekend. More extensive ice jams on rivers have been known to produce flooding during thaws. Thanks Jim for the great photo! --Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune ...
9 Jan 2009
Set in upstate New York, alongside the Canadian border, Courtney Hunt’s “Frozen River” is an icy whirlwind of a film that chronicles a few days in the life of a struggling mother of two played by Melissa Leo, and reiterates a recurring ...
9 Jan 2009
The Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail, a highlight of Winnipeg’s famously long and cold winters, officially opened yesterday as title sponsors, Festival du Voyageur partners, government officials, and The Forks staff celebrated the ...
9 Jan 2009
TVA has released muddy sludge once again, this time on the Ocoee River in East Tennessee. Efforts to repair one of a series of dams on the river released sediment into the rocky channel over the week... TVA has released muddy sludge ...
9 Jan 2009