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    May 8, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  1. Colleen Castille: The right path for Florida's water future

    Every day, news outlets highlight Florida's water challenges: Rising sea level, drought, and concerns about water quality. Today, Florida is over-pumping our groundwater aquifer — a finite water source — and consuming water at an...

    Tags: Conservation, Bodies of Water, Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics

    2. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. City: 98-year-old water main cause of sinkhole that swallowed 3 cars

    As a relentless rainstorm battered the Chicago area early Thursday morning, Laide Giwa watched her Dodge Charger drop into a sinkhole.
    Tribune reporter
    As a relentless rainstorm battered the Chicago area early Thursday morning, Laide Giwa watched her Dodge Charger drop into a sinkhole. The hole — which had already swallowed two vehicles before claiming Giwa's car —was not caused by the rain...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Physical Conditions

    3. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Widespread flooding closes expressways, many streets

    Flooding spawned by as much as 5 inches of rain closed the Edens, Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways this morning as a second wave of thunderstorms moves through the Chicago area.
    Flooding spawned by as much as 5 inches of rain closed the Edens, Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways this morning as a second wave of thunderstorms moves through the Chicago area. The Edens Expressway was closed between Foster and Touhy avenues and...

    Tags: National Weather Service, Midway Airport, Air Transportation Delays, Montgomery (Kane, Illinois), Highway Transportation

    4. Mar 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Possible sinkhole disrupts Florida families near where man died

    A possible sinkhole has forced two Florida families from their homes, officials said, in the latest example of the geological phenomenon that has frequently struck the Sunshine State.
    A possible sinkhole has forced two Florida families from their homes, officials said, in the latest example of the geological phenomenon that has frequently struck the Sunshine State. About 5 p.m. Tuesday, an emergency telephone call to Hillsborough...

    Tags: Television Stations, Television Industry, American Red Cross, Hillsborough County

    5. Mar 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Golfer is swallowed by 18-foot-deep sinkhole in middle of fairway

    Note to Mark Mihal: That's not what they mean by a hole in one.
    Note to Mark Mihal: That's not what they mean by a hole in one. Mihal was playing golf with some friends at Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill., on Monday. On the 14th fairway, Mihal was trying to gauge the distance from his ball to the hole when a...

    Tags: Golf, Sports

    6. Mar 12, 2013 |Story| KWCH

  6. That sinking feeling

    Golfers are used to hazards, but this is something out of the ordinary.
    KWCH 12 Eyewitness News
    Golfers are used to hazards, but this is something out of the ordinary. A huge sinkhole opened up on the 14th fairway of a southern Illinois golf course. Golfer Mark Mihal had to be rescued from it by a rope. The sinkhole swallowed him and...
    7. Mar 5, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Pictures in the News | March 5, 2013

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    In Tuesday's Pictures in the News: Kenyan men watch early election results on a television in the Kibera slum of Nairobi as the nation held its first presidential election since 2007 (more photos); a fire burns at Naples' museum park; workers remove...
    8. Mar 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Florida sinkhole visible after victim's home demolished

    Demolition crews in Seffner, Fla., on Monday knocked down walls of the house where Jeff Bush, 37, was living before a sinkhole swallowed his bedroom on Thursday night.
    Demolition crews in Seffner, Fla., on Monday knocked down walls of the house where Jeff Bush, 37, was living before a sinkhole swallowed his bedroom on Thursday night. The hole was not visible outside the home before an 80-foot excavation arm knocked...
    9. Mar 4, 2013 |Story| KWCH

  9. Kansas sinkhole disaster--just a matter of time?

    <span style="font-size: small;">In 2009, residents of a Hutchinson neighborhood worried their homes might be swallowed up by large sinkholes.&nbsp; The sinkholes were caused by years of underground salt mining.</span>
    KWCH 12 Eyewitness News
    In 2009, residents of a Hutchinson neighborhood worried their homes might be swallowed up by large sinkholes.  The sinkholes were caused by years of underground salt mining. The mining company bought out all 32 homes affected, so nobody will be killed...

    Tags: Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Salt

    10. Mar 4, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  10. Work continues, future uncertain for sinkhole site

    SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) &mdash; A backhoe chipped away Monday at the remains of a house where a sinkhole opened up and swallowed a man, but there was little certainty as to what would come next for the site of the freak geological incident.
    SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — A backhoe chipped away Monday at the remains of a house where a sinkhole opened up and swallowed a man, but there was little certainty as to what would come next for the site of the freak geological incident. Though...

    Tags: Tampa, Orange County (Florida), Maitland, Winter Park, Tour Operations Industry

    11. Mar 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Demolition begins on Florida home partially swallowed by sinkhole

    A demolition team is reluctantly finishing what a Florida sinkhole started.
    A demolition team is reluctantly finishing what a Florida sinkhole started. For a couple of hours Sunday, workers in Hillsborough County started the somber process of knocking down the remains of a home that was partially swallowed in a sinkhole on...

    Tags: Hillsborough County

    12. Mar 2, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  12. Work continues near Florida sinkhole that swallowed man

    SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) &mdash; Engineers worked gingerly Saturday morning to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground.
    SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Engineers worked gingerly Saturday morning to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground. Jeff Bush,...

    Tags: Landforms, Tampa, Swiss Cheese, Science and Technology, Caves and Caverns

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