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One of the world’s great rivers — the Rio Grande is today reduced to a feeble trickle. It only seems to be awaiting its disappearance from the world map?! It is being said the land, next to the Rio Grande in Texas, has probably been continuously...
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Residents of the west Texas border town of Presidio are breathing easier as the swollen Rio Grande recedes for the second day in a row.
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Helicopters were used to drop huge sandbags on a levee and a crew of prison inmates worked to create a makeshift dam Saturday as officials in this rural border city...
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A levee protecting this West Texas border town from the swelling Rio Grande failed Thursday, and authorities were mobilizing helicopters and inmates for a sandbagging...
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The wreckage of a plane carrying Mexican and U.S. officials checking on border-area flooding was found Wednesday in a mountainous area two days after it disappeared,...
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The U.S. Border Patrol said Wednesday that it found the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared two days earlier while carrying top U.S. and Mexico officials on a...
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An intergovernmental agency says all four of those on board a plane that crashed in Mexico after taking off from Texas are dead.
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The U.S. Border Patrol says it has found a plane carrying two International Boundary and Water Commission officials and two others in a rugged section of the Sierra...
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Water has topped a stressed levee that separates the West Texas border town of Presidio from the swelling Rio Grande.
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A levee holding back the swelling Rio Grande near this West Texas border town is in danger of bursting as the river continues to rise.
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The rain-swollen Rio Grande began sloshing over a levee near this border town Tuesday, and officials cleared everyone from low-lying areas as they awaited a deluge they...
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