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Dan Boylan

dboylan@washingtontimes.com

Dan Boylan was a former general assignment reporter at The Washington Times.

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Backwater flooding begins to encircle the Yazoo City, Miss., airport., Sunday, March 17, 2019, as seen in this aerial photograph. Various communities in the Mississippi Delta are combatting both Mississippi River flooding and backwater flooding that are affecting homes, businesses and farm lands. (AP Photo/Holbrook Mohr)

200 million Americans at risk of flooding

More than 200 million Americans are at risk of some flooding, as spring weather brings even more water to the Plains, Midwest and Mississippi River basin, which just endured a wetter-than-average winter, a federal report predicts.

March 21, 2019
Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. North Texas pediatricians say they've found that more and more parents want to be certain their children won't be in a waiting room with children who haven't had their shots, especially in light of recent measles outbreaks around Texas. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP) **FILE**

Missouri confirms case of measles

Missouri has become the 13th state to report a confirmed case of measles this year, which has seen the potentially deadly virus spread four times faster than last year, according to federal data.

March 17, 2019
A man clears snow drifts with a bulldozer Thursday in Limon, Colorado. A sudden drop in barometric pressure crippled the area with heavy snow and high winds. (Associated Press)

Historic ‘bomb cyclone’ storm pounds Rockies, Midwest

A history-making "bomb cyclone" on Thursday blasted communities near the Rockies with snow and drenched the Midwest with rain, causing one death, as forecasters predicted flooding will spread throughout the region over the weekend.

March 14, 2019
In this April 6, 2018, file photo, students walk on the campus of Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via AP) ** FILE **

Private colleges close due to rising expenses, fix endowments

Small private colleges across the country are increasingly finding themselves trapped between ever-rising expenses and unchanging endowments, forcing administrators into hard decisions such as canceling courses, merging with other colleges and even closing schools.

January 23, 2019
This Sept. 23, 2015 photo shows ground crew moring the Goodyear Blimp "Sprit of Innovation" as it comes in for a landing at Goodyear Airship Base in Carson, Calif. Goodyear is letting the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Its replacement, "Wingfoot Two," will look about the same when it arrives at Goodyear’s California airship base, but it will be a semi-rigid dirigible, not a blimp. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Modern airships to play bigger role in U.S. skies

Miami Beach Police recently skirted a Florida ban on police drone surveillance by monitoring a crowd with a small, helium-filled blimp -- or what reconnaissance experts call a "tethered aerostat."

January 15, 2019