A city of southeast Mississippi on a peninsula between Biloxi Bay and Mississippi Sound on the Gulf of Mexico.
In August 2007, a major bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people.
Although partially obscured by clouds, oil is discernible in two areas, a serpentine slick near the Mississippi Delta, and a large round slick south of the Mississippi-Alabama border.
Foreign carmakers, meanwhile, have found fertile ground in the South, building factories in states such as Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Hemmed in by Mississippi River floodwaters, dozens of deer gather on one of the few dry spots in Posey County's Point Township on May 4.
Malaria: In 1785, the president contracted malaria while visiting a swampy area of the Mississippi River, and he suffered from sporadic feverish flare-ups for years down the line.
Sometimes the 'classroom' is a Mississippi riverboat.
A city of western Mississippi on the Mississippi River north of Vicksburg. It is a trade, processing, and industrial center in a fertile agricultural region. Population, 45, 226.
If Siberia and Brazil will flood, so will the Mississippi Valley.
The American author and humorist was best known for his book Tom Sawyer and his love of the Mississippi river.
On the 17th of June, 1673, the canoes of Joliet and Marquette and their five subordinates reached the junction of the Wisconsin with the Mississippi. Mr.
We think that the New Madrid fault will be affected at some point, due in part to gulf area issues that will work themselves backwards thru the Mississippi Delta.
Waves on the Mississippi swamped boats and washed others upon the shore.
Honey had married and, so India said, married beneath her, a coarse Westerner from Mississippi who had settled in Macon.
The city has several nicknames, describing various characteristics of the city. For instance, "Crescent City", describing its shape around the Mississippi River.
The blues is believed to have originated in the Mississippi Delta, a wedge-shaped region in northern Mississippi between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
Within a minute, Chicago, California, Denver, New York, the Mississippi River was dark.
At the age of 21, Sam returned to the river to realize an old ambition, that of being a Mississippi River steamboat pilot.
Mark used to be a pilot on the Mississippi River.
A low pressure system over the Upper Mississippi Valley continues to generate moderate to heavy rain and snow showers that extend from the Midwest to the Lower Mississippi Valley.
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of E Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast.
Just a short drive east of Saint Louis, and across the Mississippi into Illinois, is America's first city.
The oil slick also blends with sediment washing into the Gulf from the Mississippi river.
A city of extreme southeast Mississippi east of Biloxi on Mississippi Sound. It is a port of entry, fishing center, and coastal resort. Population, 25, 899.
In Mississippi a suspiciously heavy and bounceless basketball in the recreation yard was found to contain 19 phones and chargers.
Though home to few artists, Mississippi (famous for bluegrass) has quite a number of musicians, though not as many as tennessee-which also does a thriving line in musical-instrument-making.
When I reached the Mississippi River at its source in northern Minnesota, a grocery clerk made sure to inform me that I was closer to the finish than the start.
