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...parents were social activists; her own activism began in college, where she organized local farmers. So in 1964 when clinical psychologist Carolyn Goodman's son Andrew wanted to go to Mississippi to help black voters register, she said, "we couldn't talk out of both sides of our mouths. We had to let him go." After Andrew and two other civil rights workers were murdered by Klansmen, Carolyn raised her national profile, repeatedly giving interviews at home among photos of Andrew and using her prominence to support myriad civil rights causes...
...nursing home, Salvador and Mabel Mangano - 67 and 65, respectively - quickly came to be seen as villains in the tragedy for choosing not to evacuate their residents, and now they face charges of negligent homicide. The trial was moved to this town on the banks of the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge after defense lawyers claimed their clients couldn't get a fair trial in St. Bernard Parish...
Grant has participated in missions farther south in the Mississippi River, but he said this one is different. "The visibility is probably worse than it's ever been," he said. "It's very easy to become disoriented." Grant has had 15 years of rescue and recovery experience, yet he says that finding bodies is no less surreal. "It's quiet down below the surface, you don't have the elements of noise from above," he says. So, he adds, "When you find a dead body below the water, it's a little nerve-racking but you know you have...
Residents in counties within 20 miles of the coast were surveyed in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas...
...bridge in Minneapolis - the official toll has hit five, but nobody expects it to stay there. Between 20 and 30 people are still missing, and while some of them may be lying in hospitals, unconscious and unidentified, plenty of cars are still submerged in the Mississippi River. Anyone trapped inside - and there are such people - is no longer alive. So recovery crews are picking their way carefully around the twisted steel and broken concrete that could shift without warning in the muddy current...