AP - Thousands of North Dakotans stacked sandbags around the clock to protect the state"s largest city from the rising Red River, expected to reach a record level on Saturday. Across the state, Bismarck breathed easier as the Missouri River fell 2 feet, limiting the flooding.
AP - Severe weather across the South unleashed tornadoes in rural Mississippi, including one that shattered dozens of homes, flattened a church and injured at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday.
AP - The tanking economy could force Florida to scale back its $1.34 billion deal to purchase land from U.S. Sugar Corp. to help restore the Everglades, a person close to the negotiations said Thursday.
AP - The Massachusetts attorney general announced final settlements with two companies involved in the Big Dig project on Thursday, concluding the state"s litigation in a 2006 tunnel ceiling collapse that killed a Boston woman.
AP - A bobcat has attacked three people in the central Arizona community of Cottonwood, including two men who were bitten by the animal after it wandered inside a bar.
AP - A Pennsylvania appeals court says a township is allowed to discharge an officer because he lost his sense of smell in an off-duty motorcycle accident.
