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Flooding Mississippi submerges Memphis waterfront

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Tina Susman - May. 10 (News) - The Mississippi River was cresting at near-record stage as backed-up tributaries spilled out of their banks in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. Cleanup is expected to be massive as the surge moves downstream.

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Six from Local Red Cross are in Tornado-Stricken South

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Janet Metzner - Apr. 30 (News) - Red Cross of Central Maryland volunteer Rich Scanlan of Towson worked in North Carolina and now is a shelter manager in Alabama. Four more volunteers and one staff member have also gone south to help.

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Tornadoes carve path of death, destruction across South, with nearly 300 dead

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joel Achenbach, Michael E. Ruane - Apr. 29 (News) - A series of deadly tornadoes that visited destruction on six Southern states left stunned residents literally picking up the pieces Friday, as they sought to salvage what they could in shattered homes from Mississippi to Virginia.

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Obama heads to tornado-hit South to back recovery

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Verna Gates - Apr. 29 (News) - Rescuers in the tornado-ravaged South searched through debris for survivors and bodies on Friday ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to the state worst hit by the disaster that killed 310 people.

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Deadly Tornadoes: 263 Killed Across South, Including 180 in Alabama

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Leezel Tanglao, Michael S. James, Ben Forer - Apr. 28 (News) - Deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms tore through the South early today, pushing the death toll to at least 210 people in five states and giving neighboring states a possible taste of what's to come today, authorities said.

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Marking Davis’s Confederate Inauguration

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Campbell Robertson - Feb. 21 (News) - But even the politics on Saturday were tied up in a larger sense of grievance, a feeling of being marginalized and willfully misunderstood. Expressions of this feeling led to some rather unexpected analogies, like when Kelley Barrow, a teacher from Georgia, declared that people of Confederate heritage “have been forced to go to the back of the bus.”

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EPA unveils massive restoration plan for Chesapeake Bay

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Juliet Eilpenrin - Dec. 30 (News Report) - The Environmental Protection Agency established an aggressive "pollution diet" for the Chesapeake Bay on Wednesday, spelling out steps that six states and the District must take by 2025 to put the troubled estuary on the path to recovery.

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In North Carolina, a racial uproar over schools stirs old echoes

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Richard Fausset - Dec. 19 (News Report) - When Charlotte's majority-white board voted to close several predominantly black and Latino schools, the ensuing tumult raised the specter of the civil rights era. But the district has also won praise for minority education.

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New world record Carolina Cross watermelon

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Dennis Masterson - Sep. 26 (News) - Janet & Chris Kent from Sevier county, Tennessee. have a Carolina Cross watermelon that has just set a new world record for size. It weighed in on Saturday, September 24 at 291 pounds.This was at the Yardkin Valley Pumpkin Festival in Elkins, N.C. They have been growing big pumpkins & watermelons for at least 3 years now and have set several records. They set a new Tennessee state record for watermelons a few days ago at the Tennessee State fair in Nashville.

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Gulf oil platform fire mainly a disaster for PR

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Richard Fausset - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - Louisianans expressed relief Friday that another offshore tragedy had been averted: A second oil facility that caught fire this week did not cause a leak, and no one was hurt. But many here were also worried that Thursday's production-platform blaze dealt a public relations blow to an industry that is crucial to the regional economy and is still reeling from the April 20 blowout of the Deepwater Horizon rig. When she first heard about the fire, New Orleans legal assistant Terri Heimel said to herself, "Oh God, how could this happen again? It's like, damn — now we'll never get our authority back to drill."

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Oil rig on fire after explosion off Louisiana

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Richard Fausset, Kim Geiger - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - Another offshore oil facility caught fire Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, sending 13 workers into the water to be safely rescued. U.S. Coast Guard officials said late Thursday afternoon there were no signs of an oil sheen and do not believe there is a leak. The cause of the explosion is not yet known and is under investigation. It comes a little more than four months after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blowout, which killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The government and BP are still working on completely sealing that well, which has not leaked since mid-July

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Arizona law helps Va. GOP find its voice in immigration dispute again

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Anita Kumar - Aug. 07 (News Analysis) - Virginia Republicans who had backed away from the hot-button topic of immigration the past couple of years, concerned that the hard-line approach could backfire at the ballot box, are embracing the issue once again. Republicans were emboldened after Arizona legislators passed a tough new law, even more so when the Obama administration, in a rare move, sued to prevent the most controversial sections from taking effect.

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Judge lets Virginia healthcare challenge proceed

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jeremy Pelofsky, Lisa Lamber - Aug. 02 (News Report) - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge on Monday refused to dismiss the state of Virginia's challenge to President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law, a setback that will force his administration to mount a lengthy legal defense of the overhaul effort.

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White House says sorry to worker fired in race row - Yahoo! News

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - Jul. 21 (Special Report) - The White House offered up a red-faced apology Wednesday to a black government official swiftly fired for comments on race after it emerged they had been ripped out of context. The episode, whipped into a fast-growing political storm by cable television, embarrassed the Obama administration, the media, and the top African-American advocacy group, again revealing raw US emotions over race.

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Florida: BP's next big mess

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Business 2.0 - By Catherine Clifford - Jul. 16 (News Report) - Oil just stopped gushing out of the leak on the ocean floor Thursday, but its impact in Florida has only just begun to surface. More claims have now been submitted to BP in Florida than in Louisiana. Of the claims submitted in Florida, 60% have been filed in the last month, according to Pat Wright, BP spokeswoman.

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Judge Blocks Offshore Drilling Ban

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 22 (Breaking News) - A judge blocked the six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling imposed by the Obama administration after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a ruling the White House immediately said it would appeal.

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Judge Blocks Gulf Offshore Drilling Moratorium - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Michael Kunzelman - Jun. 22 (Breaking News) - A federal judge in New Orleans has blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects that was imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill.

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Apology to BP's Hayward triggers uproar

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Steve Holland - Jun. 18 (Special Report) - A Republican U.S. representative apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward on Thursday, saying BP was victim of a White House "shakedown" by having to set up a $20 billion Gulf oil spill fund, a comment that angered both Democrats and Republicans. Politics Joe Barton of Texas, a major recipient of oil and gas industry campaign contributions, received such ridicule for his unusual apology to the oil giant that he later retracted his statement. At the start of a congressional hearing featuring testimony from Hayward, Barton said it was "a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, a $20 billion shakedown."

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States Seek Compensation From BP as Losses Mount

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Mike Esterl - Jun. 12 (News Report) - The federal point man for the Gulf oil spill said it will be at least July before BP has the tankers in place to capture the latest estimates for crude flowing from the blown well.

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Louisiana congressman Charlie Melancon moved to tears by gulf spill

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David A. Fahrenthold - Jun. 11 (News Report) - Great globs of oil are churning in the surf. Muck-covered pelicans sit offshore, white only in their eyes. Here -- in a beach town living its nightmare -- Rep. Charlie Melancon (D) gets up at a community meeting. He does whatever is the opposite of grandstanding: He explains what he can't do to help.

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Feds: BP agrees to expedite oil spill payments

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By William Branigin, Dana Hedgpeth - Jun. 10 (News Report) - Oil giant BP, under mounting pressure to meet its obligations in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has agreed to implement a more transparent and expedited claims process to pay individuals and businesses harmed by the disaster, U.S. officials said Thursday. Coast Guard Adm. Thad W. Allen, who heads the federal response to the disaster, told reporters that he and other administration officials met with BP representatives Wednesday at his request to talk about claims issues following public criticism of the company by President Obama.

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Effort to contain Gulf oil stalls with stuck saw

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David A. Fahrenthold, William Branigin - Jun. 02 (News Report) - The latest attempt at containing oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico -- a plan to saw off a leaking pipe and slide a cap over it -- has been stopped because the saw is stuck, a Coast Guard official said Wednesday morning.

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Oil cleanup workers report illness

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Nicole Santa Cruz, Julie Cart - May. 26 (News) - Some fishermen who have been hired by BP to clean up the gulf oil spill say they have become ill after working long hours near waters fouled with oil and dispersant, prompting a Louisiana lawmaker to call on the federal government to open mobile clinics in rural areas to treat them.

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Coast Guard: Tar balls along shore in Key West

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Daniel Chang - May. 18 (Breaking News) - On Monday night, the Coast Guard reported that 20 tar balls were found along the shore at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park in Key West. Samples of the tar balls -- found by park rangers and ranging in size from three to eight inches in diameter -- will be sent to a laboratory for analysis, according to the Coast Guard.

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Tarballs in Florida stoke fears of oil slick spread

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Michael Haskins - May. 18 (News Report) - Fears that ocean currents were spreading oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill flared on Tuesday after tar balls turned up in Florida, raising pressure on energy giant BP to capture more of the leaking crude.

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