ROLLING FORK, Miss– The small hometown of Blues musician Muddy Waters is threatened by a flood that may affect its 2,700 inhabitants in approaching days.
LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday and inundate thousands of homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. About 25,000 people and […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Homeowners, prisoners and city crews worked furiously Thursday to protect property along hundreds of miles of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, as a still rising surge meant more road closures and the possibility of oil tankers being cut off from refineries. The slow-moving disaster, which started last month in Illinois […]
