Midwest Weather

Streams rise in Midwest following stormy weather

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 01.28.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — Midwesterners got ready for the possibility of flooding Sunday as runoff from heavy rain and melting snowbanks bloated streams, and hi...

Amtrak Strands Holiday Travelers For Nearly 24 Hours

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 04.17.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — On one of the biggest travel days of the year, hundreds of Amtrak passengers bound for holiday destinations hunkered down in waiting r...

Midwest Levees Could Overflow If Massive Sandbagging Effort Fails

AP | MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home


GULFPORT, Ill. — The rising Mississippi River broke through a levee Tuesday, forcing authorities to rescue about a half-dozen people by helicopt...

Receding Cedar Rapids Floods Revealing 'Incredible Destruction'

AP | ALLEN G. BREED and JIM SALTER | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home


IOWA CITY, Iowa — A week's work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't spare this bucolic college town f...