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SOUTH TEXAS: Flooding forces numerous evacuations, shuts down roads and interstates for hours.

SAN ANTONIO: An 11-year-old boy fights for life after being swept down a West Side creek.

Heavy rains swamp area

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A secure line is extended to a trapped Dilley Volunteer Fire Department truck on Interstate 35 just north of Dilley. High water blocked the interstate on Monday for several hours.

Rainfall totals highest since 98

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EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

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San Antonio firefighters give CPR to a boy while carrying him to a after he fell into Apache Creek while playing with another youth medical evacuation helicopter. The boy had been swept downstream during Mondays heavy rainstorm on the citys West Side.

One week ago, San Antonio residents were digesting the news that water restrictions had taken effect because of a continuing drought. By Monday evening, amid rush-hour traffic, the city was experiencing some of the most intense rainfall since the historic flood of 98. Torrential rains drenched San Antonio for a third straight day Monday nearly drowning an 11, year-old boy who was swept by rising floodwater just southwest of downtown, forcing some families in the Woodlawn Lake area to flee their flooded homes, and leading to a dramatic late-night rescue on the Northwest Side. Officials recorded 9.28 inches of rain at the San Antonio International Airport the highest since the flood of 98, Mayor Ed

in South Texas/4A Woodlawn area hit hard by flooding/5A Its sink or swim for businesses/5A Complete weather/8C Garza said. The heavy rains shut down hundreds of roads, sparked power outages across the city and kept firefighters busy throughout the day responding to dozens of high water rescues and reports of motorists stranded in waist-deep water. More than 200 homes across the city were affected by flooding, about half of those in the Woodlawn Lake area, Garza said. Fifteen homes in the Old Highway 90 neighborhood were also evacuated. City officials were encouraging residents of the River Road See TORRENTIAL/4A

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U.S. bombing raid hits civilians in Afghan village

Pentagon says errant projectile may have wounded women and children.
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Passenger, cargo jets collide over Germany

Fireball lights up sky . Wreckage starts fires on ground.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan U.S. planes bombed a village in central Afghanistan on Monday after the U.S. military said American forces came under fire. Afghans said villagers were celebrating a wedding and that scores were killed and injured, including many women and children. Reports of the incident were conflicting. The Pentagon insisted the aircraft attacked a legitimate hostile target but suggested an errant bomb may have caused civilian casualties.

The U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, said a coalition operation in Uruzgan province may have resulted in civilian casualties. Close air support from U.S. Air Force B-52 and AC-130 aircraft struck several ground targets, including antiaircraft artillery sites that were engaging the aircraft, the brief statement said, providing no other details. At Bagram air base, U.S. military spokesman Col. Roger King said an AC-130 gunship, a B-52 bomber and other aircraft joined the attack after coalition ground forces came under fire. We understand that there were some civilian casualties in the operation, but we do not yet know how many casualties or how they occurred, King said. The United States expresses its deepest See VILLAGERS/7A

Calling it quits
Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. of Oklahoma, the only black Republican in Congress, says he will not seek re-election.
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BERLIN A Russian passenger airliner collided late Monday night with a Boeing 757 cargo plane over southern Germany exploding in a fireball and ap, parently killing everyone aboard both planes, the police said. The Russian plane, a Tupolev Tu-154 operated by Bashkirian Airlines, and the Boeing 757 crashed into one another at 11:43 p.m. over the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwest Germany said , Wolfgang Wenzel, a state police spokesMovies Puzzles S.A. Life 3D 8D 1D Sports Stocks TV listings 1C 4E 5D

man in Tubingen. The fireball from the collision lit up the night sky over one of Germanys favorite summer vacation spots, Lake Constance, on the border with Switzerland. Stanislav Borolof, the night supervisor at Domodedova airport near Moscow, identified the Tupolev flight as Bashkirian Flight 2937, which left Moscow at 10:48 p.m. Monday bound for Barcelona, Spain. It was a charter flight carrying a crew of 12 and 57 passengers, 49 adults and eight children. The Russian-built Tu-154 is a mainstay of aviation in the former Soviet Union. It is used on both domestic and international flights. More than 1,000 were built and most are still being flown, with just a few converted to freight use. The Boeing, flown by a crew with the See PLANES/7A
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