The Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a shipping channel linking New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal court ruled Wednesday.
Before a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in New Orleans, President Obama fired back at critics who accuse him of accomplishing little in his nine months in office, saying "I'm just getting started."
Five days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami slammed into the Samoan Islands, burying parts of the islands under a sea of mud and debris, U.S. agencies continued Saturday helping residents dig out and providing relief to disaster victims.
A lock break occurred on the Ohio River near Warsaw, Kentucky, on Sunday, stopping barge traffic for several hours as the Army Corps of Engineers investigated.
Kentucky's Wolf Creek dam has been a hazard for years.
A crowd of about 10,000 came to Dodger Stadium on Saturday, but they weren't there for a baseball game.
It's like winning the lottery, then being told you have just a week to spend it. And, oh yeah, don't waste any of it.
The missing engine from a US Airways jet that ditched in the Hudson River was recovered Friday, more than a week after the crash landing.
A U.S. citizen who was held hostage for ransom in Afghanistan since mid-August was freed last week by U.S. special forces troops in a rare raid, according to Pentagon officials.
Hurricane Gustav didn't pack the wallop of Katrina three years earlier, officials said Monday, but they urged almost 2 million evacuees to stay away from the Gulf Coast for another day.
The Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a shipping channel linking New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal court ruled Wednesday.
Before a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in New Orleans, President Obama fired back at critics who accuse him of accomplishing little in his nine months in office, saying "I'm just getting started."
Five days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami slammed into the Samoan Islands, burying parts of the islands under a sea of mud and debris, U.S. agencies continued Saturday helping residents dig out and providing relief to disaster victims.
A lock break occurred on the Ohio River near Warsaw, Kentucky, on Sunday, stopping barge traffic for several hours as the Army Corps of Engineers investigated.
Kentucky's Wolf Creek dam has been a hazard for years.
A crowd of about 10,000 came to Dodger Stadium on Saturday, but they weren't there for a baseball game.
It's like winning the lottery, then being told you have just a week to spend it. And, oh yeah, don't waste any of it.
The missing engine from a US Airways jet that ditched in the Hudson River was recovered Friday, more than a week after the crash landing.
A U.S. citizen who was held hostage for ransom in Afghanistan since mid-August was freed last week by U.S. special forces troops in a rare raid, according to Pentagon officials.
Hurricane Gustav didn't pack the wallop of Katrina three years earlier, officials said Monday, but they urged almost 2 million evacuees to stay away from the Gulf Coast for another day.
Efforts to bolster a private New Orleans-area levee that had been in danger of failing because of Hurricane Gustav appeared to be working Monday night, the president of a parish said.
As the one-time head of the U.S. Army's reconstruction effort in Iraq, new NBA senior vice president of referee operations (and retired two-star general) Ron Johnson knows a thing or two about daunting projects.
Transportation corridors opened over and on the Mississippi River Wednesday as floodwaters continued to recede at a rapid pace
The search teams comb through the backyards of the half-million-dollar homes with metal detectors, placing red flags on the manicured lawns every time they get a hit. To the shock of residents, they sometimes find live bombs.
Sodden and crumbling, the Pin Oak levee was the only thing standing between Winfield, Missouri, and the flood-swollen Mississippi River on Wednesday.
A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed Friday -- undone by a burrowing muskrat
Muskrat holes weakened a Mississippi River levee on Friday, allowing floodwaters to pour into Lincoln County, Missouri, just north of St. Louis, officials said.
Nature was responsible for the heavy rains, but river engineering bears much of the blame for the destruction in the Midwest that followed
The flooding in the Midwest has stranged more than 100 barges loaded with grain, cement and other material while shippers wait for the water to drop on the upper Mississippi
Water spilled over two levees on the Mississippi River on Wednesday, bringing the number of levees compromised in recent Midwest floods to 20, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.
A federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina
A federal judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the failure of levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Governors of three drought-ridden Southern states met with federal officials to address water usage issues for two river basins Thursday, as the Army Corps of Engineers is expected to present a plan meant to relieve regions dangerously low on water.
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a water supply emergency in north Georgia on Saturday as its water resources dwindled to a dangerously low level after months of drought.
The state of Georgia, stricken by months of drought, confirmed Friday that it will sue the Army Corps of Engineers.
One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.
Investigators trying to figure out what caused Wednesday's massive bridge collapse are focusing on the southern end of the span, which "behaved differently" as it fell, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
A highway bridge collapse in Minneapolis halted traffic on the upper reaches of the Mississippi River, stalling a vital waterway that moves billions of dollars worth of commodities.
Defense is a profitable business for the aptly named Gail Warrior-Lawrence, 39. Her DeSoto, Texas, firm just landed a $40 million contract to build barracks at the Army's Fort Bliss base in Texas. ...
The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
Scuba divers got a close look Tuesday at the muck trapping the historic aircraft carrier Intrepid in the Hudson River.
More than 400 people -- including government and charity workers -- have been charged so far with illegally benefiting from Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing flooding, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday.
The swampland of coastal Louisiana, often thought of as a folkloric backwater, is in fact the nation's most important petrochemical complex: an archipelago of some 4,000 oil and gas platforms.
A sharply divided Supreme Court limited the reach of federal regulators to block private development that might affect water quality, in an important property rights dispute that exposed deep divisions among the justices.
Ruling in an important property rights dispute, a divided U.S. Supreme Court limited the reach of federal regulators to block private development that might affect water quality.
The Supreme Court will decide the following key cases in June:
With the hurricane season just days away, officials in New Orleans and across Louisiana are revising emergency plans, fortifying the levee system and preparing residents for the worst.
Massive floodgates designed to better protect the heart of New Orleans from the type of storm surges that breached levees during Hurricane Katrina may not be installed until July, more than a month after hurricane season starts, a top Army official said Friday.
All New Orleans residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina should be allowed to rebuild if they choose, and the city will not stand in the way of reconstruction in areas considered vulnerable to flooding in future storms, Mayor Ray Nagin announced Monday.
It's been more than a decade since the bones of an ancient hunter were found along the banks of the Columbia River in Benton County, Washington, near the town of Kennewick.
New Orleans, six months after Hurricane Katrina first came ashore, killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands in its wake, is a study in contrasts.
Finger-pointing that began after Hurricane Katrina over who was responsible for maintaining the levees in New Orleans continued at a Senate hearing Thursday.
The bodies of a father and his 9-year-old daughter were pulled from an ice-covered pond in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, on Friday, hours after they fell through, authorities said.
New Orleans' largest newspaper accused some federal lawmakers of considering the city a "burden" and called on the U.S. government Sunday to "fulfill the promises" it made before the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history.
Tuesday, October 18; Posted 4:49 p.m. ET From Ben Blake, CNN Gulf Coast Bureau
Hurricane damage to Gulf Coast ports is driving up shipping costs, which in turn could further slow the nation's economic growth, according to a published report.
In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers was repairing levees damaged by Hurricane Katrina, which struck the city on August 29 and caused massive flooding.
The levee system in New Orleans is getting global attention because of the breaks caused by Hurricane Katrina, and now Hurricane Rita. And some engineers say those two disasters should prompt a new look at critical infrastructure.
Metropolitan New Orleans was included in a tropical storm warning Thursday, as the Army Corps of Engineers fretted over how much rain the city's fragile levees could take.
New Orleans, which flooded when many of the levees and flood walls protecting the city failed after Hurricane Katrina, is mostly drained, an Army colonel told CNN on Tuesday night.
Contractors working on federal contracts to repair damage caused by Hurricane Katrina want to limit their liability from lawsuits, according to a published report.
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More New Orleanians are expected to return to their city Monday despite local and federal officials being at odds about when and how evacuees should come home.
The Coast Guard officer in charge of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts for the federal government said Saturday his priority is to remove water from New Orleans as quickly as possible -- and he intends to coordinate the groups providing aid.
Repair crews have patched the ruptured levee along the 17th Street Canal and have begun pumping water from New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday.
Even as the Army Corps of Engineers made progress removing water from New Orleans, the city's deputy police chief urged remaining residents Monday to get out because there was no power, drinkable water or food supply.
It will take nearly three months to drain some parts of New Orleans, a U.S. Army general said Friday.
Hurricane storm surges have resulted in limited flooding of the city of New Orleans before. But Hurricane Katrina's winds pushed in a devastating surge of water from the Gulf of Mexico that overwhelmed the city's system of levees built to hold back the surrounding Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.
A day after Hurricane Katrina dealt a devastating blow to the Big Easy, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Tuesday night blasted what he called a lack of coordination in relief efforts for setting behind the city's recovery.
NO BASEBALL CAN GO INTO A MAJOR LEAGUE game without being rubbed with Lena Blackburne mud. Lena was a third-base coach for the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1930s and a friend of my grandfather's. ...
Nineteen of 26 homes burned in a Charles County, Maryland, subdivision were the result of arson, authorities said Wednesday.
Authorities investigating suspicious fires that destroyed 12 homes and damaged 14 others in a Charles County subdivision are looking for the driver of a blue van that was seen in the area when the fires broke out, a federal law enforcement source close to the investigation told CNN on Wednesday.
The FBI has made a formal request to interview the Army Corps of Engineers chief contracting officer who has alleged her agency unfairly awarded no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars to a Halliburton subsidiary for work in Iraq, law enforcement sources said Thursday.
Law enforcement sources told CNN Thursday that the FBI has made a formal request to interview Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers chief contracting officer who went public last weekend with allegations her agency unfairly awarded Kellogg, Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq.
Vice President Dick Cheney was a guest on NBC's Meet the Press last September when host Tim Russert brought up Halliburton.
Vice President Dick Cheney's office denied Sunday that he was involved in a coordinated effort to secure a multibillion dollar Iraq oil deal for Halliburton, his former employer.
When pictures from NASA's Mars rovers were beamed back to Earth, many were disappointed by the absence of images of alien life. For those of us who support the search for E.T., our attention must continue to focus here on our home planet.
The Pentagon is asking for additional bids to provide kerosene, gasoline and liquefied natural gas for Iraqi civilians in northern and southern parts of the country.
The Pentagon has asked its criminal unit to investigate allegations that Halliburton Co., the oil field services company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, overcharged the U.S. government for fuel delivered to Iraq, three U.S. lawmakers said Friday.
However long the battle for Baghdad lasts, one thing is clear: Reviving Iraq's oil industry will take months. U.S. contractors say the country has the most decrepit energy infrastructure they've ev...
Steve Morgan has an acre of swampland he'd like to sell you. You'll have to stop by his office, located in a strip mall outside Sacramento next to a store called Wigs R U, and you'd better bring ar...
Seven decades of dam building, canal digging, and highway construction have given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a reputation as an enemy of the environment. Think again, says Lieutenant General ...
Amazing town, New York. Has everything. Best theater, most tycoons, friendliest bookies, action-oriented individuals everyplace you look. (MAN SHOOTS WAY OUT OF JAMMED SUBWAY was a local headline t...
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