Michigan town split over disaster firm
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Officials in this small, job-starved community hope disaster pays. They're welcoming plans by a startup company to build a $79 million center that would help people across the nation prepare for catastrophic events such as terrorist attacks and killer storms.
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Several towns were under flood warnings Thursday after powerful storms raced across the upper Midwest, toppling trees and power lines and bringing so much rain that one community was split in two by flooding.
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By Daniel Kelley, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 15--MARISSA -- A Peabody Energy proposal to reopen a surface mine and use adjacent land as a burnt coal landfill outside Marissa has drawn concern from nearby residents and praise from the business community.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 1--GULFPORT -- A broken water main forced city officials to issue a boil water notice in the area of Jones Street between Anniston Avenue and Ford Street.
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By McNulty, Ian  Nearly every structure in St. Bernard Parish was inundated with floodwater after Hurricane Katrina. But even as the community's school district sat in the lingering waters, St.
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By Melanie Marquez, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb. 10--BRADENTON -- When Jay Burnell sees Macy's bags floating toward the mouth of Wares Creek, he cringes, thinking of the trash that works its way along the water from DeSoto Square mall.
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The fires set at a development on a wetland in Maryland have highlighted a long and contentious battle over whether the injection of suburban density belonged there.
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A yearlong dispute over whether to add a religious group's Bible class at small-town Frankenmuth High School in rural Michigan comes to a head at Monday's school board meeting.
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Extensive damage is caused in a mid Wales village after it was hit by what is being described as a small tornado.
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Thousands of Michiganians with second homes in Florida fear the damage inflicted by Hurricane Charley will extend into winter. For some, their winter homes along Florida&#39;s Gulf Coast have been destroyed or badly damaged.
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As evacuation orders come down, homeowners ask: What really matters? What can't be replaced?
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By LEE ROSS Mountain View Telegraph  A rummage sale, a rock quarry and a costly court case are all part of an ongoing dispute between San Pedro Rock and an East Mountains neighborhood association.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents whose neighborhood was flooded during Hurricane Katrina added a lawsuit Thursday to the mounting case against the Army Corps of Engineers, saying the agency knew flood walls were unstable.
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By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Dec. 11--There is a torrent of opposition across the region to the City of New Berlin's request to pump Lake Michigan water out of the Great Lakes watershed, but that doesn't mean Wisconsin will necessarily heed it.
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By Terrie Morgan-Besecker, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 12--WILKES-BARRE -- A federal magistrate has recommended that Denise Carey be permitted to continue with a lawsuit that said the city retaliated against her for speaking out against the closure of a fire station near her home.
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By MARIE ROHDE  Glendale  The city is using its power of eminent domain to help accomplish a $300 million makeover of Bayshore shopping center, but a lawsuit filed by one property owner is questioning whether the takeover fits the law's strict criteria.
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By Erin Smith, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 18--ALAMOSA -- The more than 200 people attending a meeting on the proposed Village at Wolf Creek at the Inn of the Rio Grande Friday night appeared divided in their support of the project.