Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now' Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. 3 homes washed away in Wis.; Midwest rivers swell Floodwaters washed away three houses and threatened dams in Wisconsin Monday as military crews joined desperate sandbagging operations to stop Indiana streams flooding to record levels. The East Coast simmered through a heat wave with temperatures climbing toward the century mark. Pregnant Marine is dead, comrade sought Authorities searched a neighborhood Friday for a shallow grave holding the body of a pregnant Marine, and said the main suspect in her death was a comrade she had accused of rape.