CNN 2011-04-29

change, an egg roll, and an extraordinary talk show host. CNN Student News is back -- and so am I -- to bring you 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines from around the world. First up, police in Poplar Bluff, Missouri are going door to door, tellin

CNN 2011-04-30

Down the... in the southern part of Barler County, south of Poplar Bluff, there was a bridge in the levee about 5 a.m. in this morning. We have 200 soldiers on the ground right there right now, so we can just pay in the security operations, evacuatio

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1. Crews are rushing to build a four-foot-tall sandbag levee around an eastern Missouri community. Emergency workers are hoping it will block floodwaters from a broken levee south of the town of Winfield. Officials say muskrat holes caused that brea

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CNN 2011-05-01

On Monday, the National Weather Service alert said the levee may fail at any time. Yesterday was any time. This is the levee we've been telling you about in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. We reported on it yesterday, in fact. It failed in at least four spot

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NPR 2011-05-13

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama wants two more years out of FBI Director Robert Mueller, whose 10-year term expires this September 4. He plans to ask Congress to let Mueller stay on the job longer because of what he de

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AP 2011-06-10

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AP 2011-06-19

1. Two people have been questioned about an abandoned campfire that may have started a massive wildfire in Arizona. The blaze is the second largest in the state's history. 2. Crews in Iowa are hoping a temporary levee will hold back floodwaters of th

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CNN 2008-06-20

Hello, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The Mississippi River is gushing through a hole in the massive levee outside Winfield, Missouri. And police officers are telling

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1. Some residents along the Wisconsin River in central Wisconsin are leaving their homes after a levee started to fail. Officials say water is only leaking from the Caledonia Levee and that it has not completely collapsed. Folks in Wisconsin, Minneso

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