Nation IN BRIEF : INDIANA : Some Levees Fail as Floods Move South

Levees failed in three southern Indiana communities and other levees were sandbagged as floodwaters from central and northern Indiana coursed downstream. Along the still-rising Wabash River, Terre Haute residents and volunteers from a prison worked through the night. “Just about every place . . . protected from the river by levees is in jeopardy right now,” Vigo County civil defense director Richard Setliff said. One death was blamed on the flooding, caused by rain and snowmelt. After a levee below Elnora, Ind., caved in, another on the north side of town was reinforced and homes below it were evacuated as a precaution.