JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The Coast Guard closed the swollen Mississippi River north of New Orleans on Tuesday, halting cargo vessels on the nation's busiest waterway in the latest effort to reduce pressure from rising floodwaters....
By HOLBROOK MOHR and ALAN SAYRE, Associated Press: Nation
Tue, 05/17/2011 - 4:09pm
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The Coast Guard closed the swollen Mississippi River north of New Orleans on Tuesday, halting cargo vessels on the nation's busiest waterway in the latest effort to reduce pressure from rising floodwaters....