The backup of boats and barges on a low-water section of the MIssissippi River increased Tuesday even as the 11-mile stretch reopened on a limited basis, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
An 11-mile stretch of the Mississippi River near Greenville, Mississippi, was closed Monday to most vessel traffic because of low water levels, idling nearly a hundred boats and barges in the stream, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Mississippi River was closed at two different locations Thursday after a barge ran aground near Greenville, Mississippi, and the Army Corps of Engineers carried out dredging operations near La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The condition of Lana Kuykendall, the South Carolina woman infected with flesh-eating bacteria shortly after giving birth to twins nearly two months ago, is improving, her doctor said Friday.
A South Carolina mother who contracted a rare flesh-eating bacteria infection days after giving birth to twins is being transferred to a rehabilitation hospital Thursday, now that she has been upgraded to good condition, hospital officials said.
The University of West Georgia graduate student infected with rare "flesh-eating" bacteria has proven to be "amazingly resilient," her father said Wednesday, and a second apparent case has been reported.
The parents of Aimee Copeland, the victim of a flesh-eating bacteria, stay hopeful as their daughter is in the hospital.
East Carolina University declared "all clear" Wednesday after reports of an armed suspect triggered a lockdown.
A 6-year-old girl is faring better a day after a shark attack put her in critical condition, the family said Wednesday.
Large containers stacked two and three high Tuesday surrounded riverfront properties in Vidalia, Louisiana, Tuesday as residents and officials tried to counter flooding from the rising Mississippi.
CNN's Martin Savidge takes a boat tour of the flooding in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Mandatory evacuations begin in low-lying areas of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.
Several years ago, an 81-year-old woman with a raised patch of dry skin on her arm visited Mississippi dermatologist John Abide, M.D.
A baby boy is clinging to life at a South Carolina hospital, three days after being abandoned in an arena toilet after a circus show, police said.
Most of the wintry precipitation had moved on by Monday night, but much of the South is likely to see white stuff on the ground until the weekend as an Arctic low slides in, bringing low temperatures in the teens and highs barely out of the 20s.
One man takes his skis for a spin through the unusual Atlanta snow.
As kids in several southern states reveled in school cancellations Monday, travelers bemoaned slow -- and sometimes immobilizing -- conditions in the air and on the ground.
Cold weather frosting much of the country spared Florida's citrus crop Tuesday, but more near-record lows expected overnight will pose another challenge.
Wintry weather from Maine to Florida.
Why are the Shanghai Masters not televised on ESPN? Why do Little League, high school basketball, football and baseball get more airtime than tennis? Our elite athletes deserve better. Also, there are no doping scandals in tennis like there are in cycling and baseball. Why do people hold up baseball and cycling as great athletes but not tennis players? They don't get any respect! --HB, Winthrop, Washington
Split comes after he admits affair with a woman from Argentina
For Elke Kennedy, the significance of Wednesday's hate crimes legislation can be traced to a single punch outside a bar on a drunken night two years ago.
Members of the Shriners fraternity voted Monday to withdraw a measure that would have closed six of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children, representatives of some of the facilities said.
A cash flow crisis could close several Shriners hospitals. CNN.com's Jason Hanna and Melissa Long discuss the impact.
Matt Aldridge would have trouble contemplating life without the Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville, South Carolina.
The May jobs report, which showed the lowest level of cuts since September, sent stocks slightly higher Friday on more hopes that the economy may soon be on the upswing.
An Ohio company transforming its business model will build its headquarters in the town of Greenville.
A Sheriff's Deputy comments on finding an overweight teen who was apparently taken from his home by his mother.
South Carolina authorities have located a 555-pound teenager and his mother, who faces a charge of violating a custody order, police said Thursday.
It's about the time of year when many of those with seasonal allergies are starting to grumble.
Bruce Windsor is known as many things: church deacon, soccer coach, father of four. But facing potential financial problems, he's now known as something else: suspected bank robber.
Federal agents swept through a chicken processing plant Tuesday, detaining more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants, sending panicked workers running and screaming through the hallways
Federal immigration agents arrested about 300 workers Tuesday in a raid at a poultry processing plant in Greenville, South Carolina, the Department of Justice said.
With sales slow and credit almost nonexistent, small businesses - the country's largest employer - face painful job cutbacks.
Since the U.S. Open (among other tennis events) is all about gender equity, do you think we will ever have the evening session "start" with a men's match and then be "followed" by the women's match. For a working person on the East Coast, it's hard to stay up and watch the men's matches, such as the Blake/Young match, especially when they start after 9 p.m. Just looking for equal rights. -- John, Greenville, S.C.
Sales of personal robots for entertainment are expected to reach $3.6 billion a year worldwide by 2012, up from $250 million in 2007, and Innovation First, based in Greenville, Texas, is staking out its share of that market.
Ricin, a poison thought to have been found in a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel room Thursday, can be made from the waste left after processing castor beans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mike Huckabee has capitalized on his Iowa surge and roared to the front of the Republican pack in South Carolina, largely on the strength of social conservatives frustrated with the crop of candidates.
Three states, California, Florida and Ohio, continue to dominate new foreclosure filings, as most of the nation saw increases in the third quarter, according to a new survey.
Three of the college students killed in a house fire Sunday at a North Carolina beach house graduated from the same Greenville, South Carolina, high school, according to local reports.
Police release the 911 calls from a fatal beach fire, plus one student speaks about his escape.
Republicans no longer have a firm grip on religion in political discourse, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told Sunday worshippers.
Obama and faith
updated: Mon Oct 08 2007 21:27:00
CNN's Bill Schneider takes a look at Sen. Barack Obama's effort to attract support from churchgoing voters.
A Greenville, Ohio, pastor says the fire that killed five, and ended with a boy accused of murder, has galvanized the town.
The parishioners heard the sirens during Sunday morning services in Greenville, Ohio. A few blocks from St. Paul's Lutheran Church, a home was burning and five people were dead.
A 10-year-old boy charged with arson and murder in the deaths of his mother and four others was released to the custody of his grandmother Monday in a case that has shocked and divided a small Ohio town.
A 10-year-old Ohio boy is facing criminal charges in the deaths of his mother and four others. Affiliate WHIO reports.
Temperatures reached record highs across much of the Southeast on Thursday, while rainy weather cooled off many of the mid-Atlantic states.
Staying healthy when it's hot
Money Magazine: How I Did Itupdated: Wed Mar 01 2006 00:01:00
BY FRED MURRIN, 55, GREENVILLE, PA. AS TOLD TO DAPHNE MOSHER
The people of this small Alabama town have opened their homes and hearts to survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
After taking on the mutual fund industry, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is now setting his sights on the insurance industry. Two weeks ago, at a news conference, he announced he had found wide-spread wrongdoing.
The missing-person case of former Sara Lee executive James Cockman is being treated as a possible abduction, Greenville, S.C., authorities said Monday.
The FBI is posting a letter on its Web site in hopes that someone will recognize the handwriting and phrases the writer used and help authorities find whoever is sending ricin through the mail.
Preliminary tests on a white, powdery substance found in the mailroom of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist indicate the presence of the deadly substance ricin, a Homeland Security official said Monday.
The FBI and other federal agencies Thursday offered a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of the author or authors of a letter found in a South Carolina post office containing the deadly poison ricin.
Steak house chain Ruth's Chris serves a great steak. The top-quality meat develops an appealing crust in the high-temperature broilers (designed by the late Ruth Fertel herself) and is served on a ...
More than 587,000 people who used to call telecommunications a career don't anymore. Two straight years of recession have decimated the industry, which is expected to contract again in 2003. Those ...
Money Magazine: The Great American Steakupdated: Wed Feb 19 2003 14:02:00
Steak house chain Ruth's Chris serves a great steak. The top-quality meat develops an appealing crust in the high-temperature broilers (designed by the late Ruth Fertel herself) and is served on a platter of sizzling butter, making for a sensationally rich and tasty meal.
Steak house chain Ruth's Chris serves a great steak. The top-quality meat develops an appealing crust in the high-temperature broilers (designed by the late Ruth Fertel herself) and is served on a platter of sizzling butter, making for a sensationally rich and tasty meal.
You'll hear different accounts of the cause. But virtually all agree that Charlie Cawley was livid. It was the first weekend in May five years ago, and chateau country--as the rolling hills dotted ...
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Call it a grand delusion. While many parents spend time and money on books and services that search out so-called outside scholarships -- awards given by nonprofit groups, corporations and foundati...
It's the biggest event in sports, more important to some members of the international community than diplomacy or trade. Little wonder then that soccer's faithful feared disaster when rights to sta...
Gazing across the wide-spreading forests just before you land at Greenville/ Spartanburg Airport, you might not guess that within 30 miles Procter & Gamble runs a giant factory, Wal-Mart operates i...
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