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Heavy river flooding in six Midwestern states that has forced evacuations, shut down bridges, swamped homes and caused at least one death was expected to crest in some areas on Sunday.National Guardsmen, volunteers, homeowners and even inmates from local prisons pitched in to hold back the floodwaters that shut down roads in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. Heavy rainfall...
Six days after the Boston bombings, crowdfunding websites that raise money for medical tragedies from car crashes to cancer say they’ve received more than 23,000 pledges promising more than $2 million for the victims and families of the marathon attack.That includes nearly $500,000 for Celeste and Sydney Corcoran of Lowell, Mass., a mother-daughter duo who were both severely injured as they stood ...
MAKHACHKALA, DAGESTAN – In the year and a half that Anzar Tsarnaev has lived on Oleg Koshevoi Street, the father of the two Boston marathon bombing suspects has made a positive impression on some of his neighbors."Anzar has always helped me," said Raisa Gorbacheva. The 50-year old cleaning lady is a single mother holding down two jobs in the Dagestani capital."He has given me advice," she said, fo...
