Mar 18th, 2010 · Officials and homeowners throughout the Red River Valley raced to finish levees and lay sandbags as the Mississippi, Red and St. Croix Rivers began to overflow in some places. In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Pawlenty has called out the National Guard to help vulnerable communities prepare and officials in St. Paul declared an emergency.
Mar 15th, 2010 · Violence has exploded in Mexico's northeastern border cities, just across the Rio Grande from South Texas, as two drug mafias engage in a vicious new fight for turf. Gunfights have killed dozens of people, and communities up and down the river fear it's just the beginning.
Mar 11th, 2010 · Two cases in California have ignited calls to strengthen laws designed to protect communities from sexual predators like John Gardner, who has been charged in the murder of Chelsea King, 17, and is being investigated in the death of 14-year-old Amber Dubois. But there's already a raft of laws, named after earlier victims. Legal experts say that the laws in place should be better enforced.
Mar 10th, 2010 · Researchers studying isolated communities in Canada showed that immunizing children against influenza lowered flu rates among unvaccinated adults by 60 percent.
Mar 3rd, 2010 · Authorities say most of the nearly 800 people who died were in communities along a 435-mile stretch of Chile's Pacific coast that was swamped by giant waves following last week's 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
Mar 2nd, 2010 · The deaths of 40 retirees vacationing at the seaside town of Pelluhue underscores the destruction wrought by Saturday's pre-dawn 8.8-magnitude quake and the tsunami that ravaged communities along Chile's south-central coast, where destruction is widespread and food scarce.
Mar 2nd, 2010 · At issue Tuesday will be whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms puts the same constitutional limits on state and local laws as it does on federal laws. The city of Chicago contends that states and local governments should be able to enact regulations that they deem best for their communities.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told the U.N. War crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that his people were defending themselves against Islamic fundamentalists. He is accused of trying to destroy the Muslim and Croat communities to create an ethnically pure Serbian state.