JEFFERSON, Wis. (AP) — Insurance proceeds from flood damage at the Tyson Foods plant in Jefferson helped boost the company’s bottom line in the fiscal first quarter. The meat producer, based in Springdale, Ark., said Friday it received $8 million ...

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By Paul Snyder A victim of the 2008 floods in southern Wisconsin, Steve Mickelson says the state’s proposed policy allowing anyone in the damaged region to apply for federal disaster-recovery bonds is wrong. “They should prioritize it for those that ...

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By Sean Ryan Terra Engineering & Construction Corp. will receive $20,000 from the city of Milwaukee in a proposed settlement of a lawsuit over a botched dam-repair project. The $20,000 settlement, if approved by the city, would resolve almost four ...

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By Sean Ryan The soggy furniture and waterlogged photo albums are long gone from basements swamped in 2008, but the threat of more flooding remains. Dennis Heling, executive director of the Jefferson County Economic Development Consortium, said there is a ...

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Madison (AP) — Grant County residents will get a chance to review new flood maps this week. Federal and state officials will hold an open house on Tuesday in Lancaster to feature the maps. People can learn about the risk ...

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Jefferson County on Tuesday got $4.5 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to demolish 28 houses that are at risk of flooding. The county is tearing down houses located in areas that flooded in 2008. The county identified 77 ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Grant County residents will get a chance to review new flood maps this week. Federal and state officials will hold an open house in Lancaster on Tuesday to feature the maps. People can learn about the ...

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Nataliya Vasilyeva AP Writer Moscow — An accident during repair work at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant on Monday killed at least 10 workers, while as many as 65 others were missing after an engine room was suddenly flooded, officials said. ...

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James MacPherson AP Writer Kathryn, ND — All that’s left of this southeastern North Dakota town is a bar, a church, a post office and about 55 people who call it home — but if floods like the ones that ...

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Juan A. Lozano AP Writer Galveston, TX — It has been dubbed the “Ike Dike” — a 55-mile barrier, 17 feet high, that would be built along the Texas Gulf Coast to fend off the sort of devastating flooding inflicted ...

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