Obama denies shifting to reach political center
POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. - Asked by a voter about accusations of flip-flopping, Democrat Barack Obama dismissed the notion Tuesday that he has shifted stances on Iraq, guns and the death penalty to break with his party's liberal wing and court a wider swath of voters.
Nations:U.S. People:Barack Obama Activities:US Election 2008 Source:(AP)
2008-07-08
Obama's plane lands in St. Louis for maintenance
ST. LOUIS - The airplane carrying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a precautionary landing in St. Louis on Monday after the crew had a problem keeping the nose up on takeoff from Chicago.
Nations:U.S. People:Barack Obama Activities:US Election 2008 Source:(AP)
2008-07-07
Foreclosures to rise whoever wins White House
WASHINGTON - Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.
Nations:U.S. People:Christopher Dodd Barack Obama John McCain Activities:2007 Global Credit Crunch US Election 2008 Source:(AP)
2008-07-05
Ex-con suspected in deaths of 8 captured in Ill.
GRANITE CITY, Ill. - An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings has ended with the man quietly arrested outside a bar known as a police hangout.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-07-02
The Floods: A Manmade Disaster?
On March 4, three Midwestern University professors wrote to warn the Army Corps of Engineers that its concrete navigation structures in the Mississippi River were intensifying floods, and that its plans to build more wingdikes and weirs would "exacerbate a severe and growing problem." They called some of the structures - designed to scour out the river's bottom so that barges could pass - "loaded cannons pointing at St. Louis and East St. Louis, waiting to go off in the next flood." Citing "clear and unequivocal data" from a dozen peer-reviewed articles, they declared that "the time to ask these questions is now, and not in the aftermath of the next great flood."
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 U.S. Midwest Flood Source:(Time)
2008-06-26
Levees hold back cresting Mississippi River
CAHOKIA, Illinois (Reuters) - Walls and levees held back the cresting Mississippi River on Sunday as requests for government aid poured in from homeowners and businesses swamped by the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years.
Nations:U.S. People:Barack Obama John McCain George W. Bush Activities:2008 U.S. Midwest Flood
2008-06-22
Mississippi floodwaters cresting, costs mount
PALMYRA, Missouri (Reuters) - The crest of the swollen Mississippi River moved relentlessly downstream on Saturday as volunteers manned sandbagged levees, nursed hopes and coped with the costs of the worst U.S. Midwest flooding in 15 years.
Nations:U.S. People:Barack Obama John McCain George W. Bush Activities:2008 U.S. Midwest Flood Source:(Reuters)
2008-06-21
Flooding strands 100-plus barges on Mississippi
WINFIELD, Mo. - The flooding in the Midwest has brought freight traffic on the upper Mississippi to a standstill, stranding more than 100 barges loaded with grain, cement, scrap metal, fertilizer and other products while shippers wait for the water to drop on the Big Muddy.
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 U.S. Midwest Flood Source:(AP)
2008-06-20
Mississippi overflows levees, crops threatened
FORT MADISON, Iowa (Reuters) - The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of at least 12 more levees on Wednesday, as floodwaters swallowed up more U.S. farmland, adding to billion-dollar losses and feeding global food inflation fears.
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 U.S. Midwest Flood Source:(Reuters)
2008-06-18
Mississippi overflows levees, crops threatened
FORT MADISON, Iowa (Reuters) - The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of at least 11 more levees
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 U.S. Midwest Flood Source:(Reuters)
2008-06-18
Floodwaters threaten river towns in Ill., Mo.
GULFPORT, Ill. - Floodwaters that bedeviled Iowans for the past week have flowed out of the state and are now threatening Mississippi Rivers towns in Illinois and Missouri.
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 U.S. Midwest Flood Source:(AP)
2008-06-18
Sticker shock at the supermarket
Atlanta - Tonya Brown never used to mess much with coupons and in-store "10 for $10" sales. But over the weekend, this mom from Decatur, Ga., came armed to the Kroger grocery store with a fistful of store coupons and sent her kids, Jordan and Nia, out into the aisles in search of bargains.
Nations:U.S. Activities:Global Food Crisis 2007-8 Oil Crisis 2008 U.S. Recession Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2008-06-11
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