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• Historic Vicksburg, Mississippi faces flood siege (Reuters)
• Coast Guard says 15 miles of Mississippi closed (Reuters)
• Iowa Senate passes measure aimed at abortion doctor (Reuters)
• Mississippi River Flooding: Army Corps to Open Morganza (Time.com)
• Spillway Opening Fails to Ease Flooding Fears in Louisiana (Time.com)
• Endeavour soars off on second-to-last shuttle flight (Reuters)
• 'Good stuff,' Giffords says of shuttle launch (AP)
• Rahm Emanuel sworn in as Chicago's new mayor (AP)
• Police: Inmate tip leads to search for Wis. woman (AP)
• Study challenges rural lack of access to surgery (AP)
• IMF chief jailed without bail in NY hotel-sex case (AP)
• How to square budget cuts, need for aging research (AP)
• Obama tell Memphis students their success inspires (AP)
• Building collapses in Ark., killing young girl (AP)
• Levees, floodwalls require round-the-clock watch (AP)
• 4 US service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)
• Jury selection begins in Mumbai terror attack case (AP)
• 1st report on deadly W.Va. mine blast due Thursday (AP)
• Houston man charged in death of man found headless (AP)
• Attorney says Fla. imam will fight terror charges (AP)

Historic Vicksburg, Mississippi faces flood siege (Reuters) Posted: 16 May 2011 04:27 PM PDT Reuters - The historic Civil War city of Vicksburg, which withstood a 47-day Union army siege

Coast Guard says 15 miles of Mississippi closed (Reuters) Posted: 16 May 2011 05:18 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Coast Guard said 15 miles of the Mississippi River was closed to all traffic near Natchez, Mississippi, to protect ships and protect flood control structures.

Iowa Senate passes measure aimed at abortion doctor (Reuters) Posted: 16 May 2011 04:36 PM PDT Reuters - The Iowa Senate on Monday narrowly approved a measure designed to prevent a doctor who specializes in late-term abortions from opening a planned clinic on the western border of the state.

Mississippi River Flooding: Army Corps to Open Morganza (Time.com) Posted: 16 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT Time.com - By Saturday night, May 14, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to partially open the Morganza Spillway, northwest of Baton Rouge, sparing New Orleans from a catastrophic 20 to 40 feet of water

Spillway Opening Fails to Ease Flooding Fears in Louisiana (Time.com) Posted: 16 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT Time.com - As the Army Corps moves water away from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, it's clear that concerns about this stretch of river will remain as high as the water levels for the next few weeks.

Endeavour soars off on second-to-last shuttle flight (Reuters) Posted: 16 May 2011 10:20 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on Monday on the next-to-last flight in NASA's shuttle program, carrying a potentially revolutionary physics experiment to the International Space Station.

'Good stuff,' Giffords says of shuttle launch (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 11:22 AM PDT AP - Sitting in a wheelchair atop NASA's launch control center with other astronaut families, wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords watched her husband launch into space Monday aboard space shuttle Endeavour. And she smiled.

Rahm Emanuel sworn in as Chicago's new mayor (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 02:37 PM PDT AP - Rahm Emanuel was sworn in Monday as Chicago's first new mayor in more than two decades, a historic power shift for a city where the retiring Richard M. Daley was the only leader a whole generation had ever known.

Police: Inmate tip leads to search for Wis. woman (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 03:49 PM PDT AP - Wisconsin authorities searched Monday for the body of a 20-year-old woman who disappeared in 1992 after a convicted child kidnapper who is serving a life sentence admitted his involvement, police said.

Study challenges rural lack of access to surgery (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 01:06 PM PDT AP - A surprising study of nearly 46 million Medicare patients says older residents in rural areas are more likely to have any of nine common surgeries than people in cities.

IMF chief jailed without bail in NY hotel-sex case (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 04:46 PM PDT AP - Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the International Monetary Fund was denied release on bail Monday on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid as allegations of other, similar attacks by Dominique Strauss-Kahn began to emerge.

How to square budget cuts, need for aging research (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 01:15 PM PDT AP - A disease standoff may be brewing: How can Alzheimer's research receive more scarce dollars without cutting from areas like heart disease or cancer?

Obama tell Memphis students their success inspires (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 02:03 PM PDT AP - Offering a lift to a flood beleaguered city, President Barack Obama hailed the transformation of a once struggling but venerable Memphis high school Monday, telling its graduates, "You inspire me, that's why I'm here."

Building collapses in Ark., killing young girl (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT AP - A cosmetic store and a bridal boutique that was undergoing renovations collapsed in central Arkansas on Monday, killing a 2-year-old girl and injuring at least six other people.

Levees, floodwalls require round-the-clock watch (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 04:19 PM PDT AP - All along the swollen Mississippi River, hundreds of thousands of lives depend on a small army of engineers, deputies and even prison inmates keeping round-the-clock watch at the many floodwalls and earthen levees holding the water back.

4 US service members killed in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 11:48 AM PDT AP - A Pentagon official says all four of the service members killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan were Americans.

Jury selection begins in Mumbai terror attack case (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 04:09 PM PDT AP - Nearly 100 potential jurors filed one-by-one into a federal courtroom on Monday for the first day of a terrorism trial involving a Chicago businessman at the center of a case that could reveal troubling links between a terrorist group blamed for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and Pakistan's largest intelligence agency.

1st report on deadly W.Va. mine blast due Thursday (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT AP - The first report on the explosion that killed 29 men at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine will be released Thursday.

Houston man charged in death of man found headless (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 04:58 PM PDT AP - Police who found a man's dismembered body outside a vacant house, with the head and an arm stuffed into a trash bag and the rest of his remains in a backyard next door, arrested his best friend Monday for murder.

Attorney says Fla. imam will fight terror charges (AP) Posted: 16 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT AP - An elderly Muslim cleric charged with supporting Pakistani terrorists will plead not guilty and should not be prejudged simply because of the seriousness of the case, his defense attorney said Monday.

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