Weather Report: The Mississippi River is rising at an alarming rate, threatening to break the records of flooding set in 1993 when the water breached 800 levees in Missouri. Floodwaters have already cut off some highways and Missouri Gov. Jay …

World: At least 35 hostages may have been killed in a military operation to re-take a foreign-operated natural gas field in the eastern Algerian desert that was over run by Islamic militants on Tuesday. Exact numbers are hard to nail …