Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, is one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in U.S. history. New Orleans, the Mississippi River city near the Gulf of ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the upper reaches of the Mississippi River between the U.S. midwestern states of Illinois and Missouri on ...