Top Disaster Officials Touch Down in State
BATON ROUGE -- Aiming to show tangible improvements in reacting to disasters since Hurricane Katrina hit three years ago today, the Bush administration's top two disaster response officials were in ...
BATON ROUGE -- Aiming to show tangible improvements in reacting to disasters since Hurricane Katrina hit three years ago today, the Bush administration's top two disaster response officials were in ...
NEW ORLEANS -- With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the ...
NEW ORLEANS -- National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles sold briskly, and one small-town mayor spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area watched as a ...
The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office has acquired a new type of sonar equipment to help protect local waterways against terrorism.The Echoscope is a real-time, three-dimensional device the marine patrol ...
SAN DIEGO -- A man who went overboard during a party cruise in San Diego Bay was killed by police Saturday night after he attacked the officers who had tried ...
ALBURGH, Vt. -- Summer is usually a busy time for both the Border Patrol and smugglers who try to enter the U.S. illegally via Lake Champlain, but authorities says organized ...
OAKVILLE, Iowa -- As southeastern Iowa and other parts of the Midwest prepared for the Mississippi River's wrath, the rest of Iowa began the slow move from protection to cleanup.The ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- The Cedar River poured over its banks Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater ...
LAKE DELTON, Wis. -- Flash floods inundated a southwest Wisconsin town Monday for the second time in 10 months, while 60 miles away an embankment along a man-made lake gave ...
I think it was General Douglas MacArthur who said, If bravery is a quality which knows not fear, then I have never seen a brave man. For the courageous man ...