Funding deal will push forward two-decade-plus effort to build barriers and take other steps to prevent invasive species migration into the key U.S. shipping and recreation hub.
The west abutment of a dam near Mankato, Minn., was washed away, as was a portion of a railroad bridge between Sioux City, Iowa, and North Sioux City, S.D.
Former Chicago politician Ed Burke's crimes included extorting developers of construction projects, prosecutors said, but sentence was less than guidelines recommended