Planners say the new Sidney Lanier Bridge, a $110 million project already nearly 18 months behind schedule, will not open until September at the earliest.
A disabled ferry with 884 people aboard limped toward Norway on Saturday after its crew extinguished fires that broke out in the engine room overnight.
America's trade deficit improved slightly in March as growth in exports, led by a big jump in sales of commercial aircraft, outpaced growth in imports.
Firefighters battled the remnants of a 1,300-acre wildfire Friday that had come within three miles of the city's downtown as nearly 1,500 people who had been evacuated began returning home.
Prosecutors in the trial of a former Klansman charged with a deadly civil rights-era church bombing closed their case after jurors heard haunting testimony from a survivor of the blast.