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LINCOLN, Neb. — An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, where alcohol is banned. The lawsuit names Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, SAB Miller, Molson Coors B...
AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File In this file Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sources say Nelson will retire. LINCOLN, Neb. — Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska plans to retire rather than seek a third term, two people with knowledge of the decision said Tuesday, a significant setback for Democratic efforts to maintain control of the chamber next year. The people with direct knowledge of Nelson's decision told The Associated Press that the 70-year-old conservative D...
LINCOLN, Neb. — Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska plans to retire rather than seek a third term, two people with knowledge of the decision said Tuesday, a significant setback for Democratic efforts to maintain control of the chamber next year. The people with direct knowledge of Nelson's decision told The Associated Press that the 70-year-old conservative Democrat will announce his plans Tuesday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because Nelson had not yet made the announcement. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File In this file Feb. 1...
OMAHA, Neb. — A meeting of Missouri River governors Monday revealed significant disagreement between Montana and states further downstream over flood control, even as federal officials warned the group that damage from this year's high water may make their states even more vulnerable next year. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer fought against a developing notion that flood control for states further down the river should dominate how reservoirs are managed upstream. He told governors of the downstream states that such a plan w...
HAMBURG, Iowa — Construction crews on Wednesday put the final touches on a makeshift levee standing between a small Iowa town and the creeping advance of Missouri River floodwater, as communities downstream took advantage of a temporary dip in water levels to bolster their own strained defenses. AP Photo/Nati Harnik Statues of workers of various trades, part of the Monument for Labor by Matthew J. Placzek, stand in the rising waters of the Missouri River, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday. Water that breached the primary river l...
HAMBURG, Iowa — A temporary earthen levee is the only barrier standing between Hamburg and the floodwaters of the Missouri River, and officials hope efforts to beef it up will be enough to keep the small southwestern Iowa town from filling up like a bathtub. Crews working for the Army Corps of Engineers hope to pile at least three feet of extra dirt atop the levee before Wednesday evening. The stakes are high: If it fails, parts of the town could be covered by as much as 10 feet of water within days. And high water could l...
HAMBURG, Iowa — The rising Missouri River ruptured two levees in northwest Missouri on Monday, sending torrents of flood waters over rural farmland toward a small town in Iowa and a resort community in Missouri. Water rushing from a 50-foot-wide hole in a levee near the southwest Iowa town of Hamburg was expected to reach a secondary levee built to protect the town of about 1,100 people by Tuesday. If that levee fails, parts of Hamburg could be under as much as 10 feet of standing water, officials said. Terry Holliman, who o...
