Members of the U.S. Coast Guard were searching Thursday for three people who were reported missing after two boats collided in the Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for three people who were reported missing after two boats collided.
Home prices continued to plummet during the first three months of 2011, falling 4.6% from a year earlier.
Federal agents in Gulfport, Mississippi, arrested Sunday a 53-year old man, declared dead in 1994, on kidnapping charges.
When Mississippi attorney Tim Holleman was approached by furious community officials in Gulfport to stop BP and its contractor from dumping tar balls and oil-stained byproducts into a local landfill, he sent out an e-mail asking if there were alternatives to deal with the waste.
The number of suspected heat-related deaths reported by health officials across the South and Midwest in the past week reached at least nine Wednesday as temperatures continued to hit triple digits.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf could cost homeowners $68 million in lost property value over the next year -- and up to $3 billion in the next five years, according to a report released Monday.
A man walks into a pawnshop in Gulfport, Mississippi. Others may bring guitars or a piece of jewelry, but this man has something special. It's a 16th century blunderbuss from Japan. Kevin Riley, the owner of Dad's Super Pawn, gingerly turned the 500-year-old weapon over in his hands, examining the antique with an expert eye. "Wow that's pretty cool," he said.
The Mississippi coast is coming back from Hurricane Katrina one house at a time. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.
Jacques Cousteau's grandson Philippe Cousteau Jr. explored the BP oil spill underwater and describes what he saw.
CNN's Richard Lui talks to an Alabama resident who remains optimistic about her child's wedding despite the oil spill.
Ben Stone knows quite a bit about disasters.
One Mississippi businessman fears the oil spill will kill his seafood business. CNN's Sarah Hoye reports.
Cities in the so-called Sand States dominated the foreclosure rankings in 2009, with the 20 worst-hit metro areas residing in Nevada, Florida, California and Arizona.
We've found 15 water parks in your own backyard. Before the dreaded "are we there yet?" echoes from the back seat, you'll be in the parking lot.
A naval brigade is being diverted to Afghanistan to help prepare for the extra U.S. troops that will be sent to that country, a Pentagon spokesman announced Friday.
From columns of cloud streaking over the Caspian Sea in January to vast tracts of cleared forest in Bolivia in December. In 2008, the NASA Earth Observatory has captured more stunning images of the Earth.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav, energy analysts say that the fate of gas prices in coming days could hinge on possible damage to the area's dozens of refineries that turn crude into gasoline.
Smaller towns that have yet to recover from Katrina find themselves emptying out as powerful winds start to kick in
Mississippi is relieved at the minimal damage but waters were unexpectedly high in towns recovering from Katrina
Hurricane Gustav lashes Gulfport, Mississippi, with heavy wind and rain.
Mississippi's Gulf Coast, which sustained major damage three years ago in Hurricane Katrina, fared better Monday as Hurricane Gustav slipped west, giving Louisiana the brunt of its powerful east side.
Gas prices continue to rise in states along the Gulf of Mexico as workers on offshore oil rigs abandon ship and residents flee their homes ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
Hurricane Katrina victims still living in temporary housing along Mississippi's coastline should begin evacuating this weekend as Gustav approaches the Gulf Coast
Nature was responsible for the heavy rains, but river engineering bears much of the blame for the destruction in the Midwest that followed
Government said flooded town didn't need flood insurance. CNN's David Mattingly reports.
All roads in the town of Gulfport, Illinois, lead to nowhere. They all hit a dead end into Mississippi River floodwaters.
Floodwaters breached another levee in Illinois and threatened more Mississippi River towns in Missouri after inundating much of Iowa for the past week
Atlanta has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation since 2000, with a gain of nearly 900,000 residents to 5.1 million.
Fortune: Risky Businessupdated: Thu Nov 02 2006 10:51:00
Mary Alice and José Martín's bungalow survived Katrina - but got hit in June. That's when Allstate informed the couple that their home, a mile from the glistening Gulf of Mexico, would no longer be...
I am a journalist. Tough, unemotional, detached. Until Katrina. It was my worst childhood nightmare come true.
One year after Katrina, some areas are striding down the road to recovery, while others have not even started. CNN.com readers sent in their stories of progress, loss and hope.
Mary Alice and José Martín's bungalow survived Katrina - but got hit in June. That's when Allstate informed the couple that their home, a mile from the glistening Gulf of Mexico, would no longer be covered for windstorm or hail. "Here it is the middle of hurricane season," Mrs. Martín fumes. "Who in the world is going to sell me a windstorm policy right now?"
When Hurricane Camille struck the Gulf Coast in 1969, Kay Kell had to swim to higher ground in Waveland, Mississippi, with her two children -- a 3-month-old and an 18-month-old -- in tow.
FSB: The Long Road Backupdated: Tue Nov 01 2005 00:01:00
When Katrina and Rita struck, they each managed in mere hours to destroy the work of a lifetime for untold thousands of small-business owners. In the days following the storms, FSB tracked down a w...
In the year since she graduated from law school, Melissa Nunley was starting to build a life for herself in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Life in Turkey Creek has little to spare in the best of times and the days following Hurricane Katrina have not been the best of times for this historic enclave in Gulfport, Mississippi.
CNN's Sean Callebs in New Orleans, Louisiana Posted: 1:28 p.m. ET
Car rental firms are scrambling to move thousands of vehicles to the Gulf Coast in an effort to quell demand for cars after Hurricane Katrina, according to a news report published Monday.
CNN's Gary Baumgarten in New Orleans, Louisiana Posted: 6:00 p.m. ET
As the floodwaters recede and the search for the dead begins, there are grim signs that authorities expect a staggering death toll from Hurricane Katrina.
The people of this small Alabama town have opened their homes and hearts to survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Before Katrina, Mississippi's Gulf Coast had evolved from a swampy backwater to a boom town of casinos, tourism and beachfront entertainment employing thousands.
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina face multiple health threats such as infectious diseases and respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses, health officials warn.
New Orleans faced two crises Wednesday that Louisiana's governor called nightmares: stopping rising floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and evacuating survivors of the deadly storm.
Hurricane Katrina has inflicted more damage to Mississippi's beach towns than Hurricane Camille did, and its death toll is likely to be higher, the state's governor said Tuesday.
U.S. Gulf Coast residents who braved Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday began to face the storm's impact:
Hurricane Katrina's strike on Mississippi killed at least 54 people Monday, 50 of them in one county, state officials said, and caused what Gov. Haley Barbour called "catastrophic damage" along the coast.
Posted 5:51 p.m. ET CNN's Jeanne Meserve, traveling along I-10, New Orleans, Louisiana
An ad placed in a Florida community newspaper by a city Democratic club attacks President Bush and U.S. policy in Iraq, and threatens Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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