Deaths have been on the rise since the Army Corps of Engineers piled 4,700 tons of rock onto an old dam that crossed the river in Jefferson County. “The City must make challenging and difficult decisions created by federal demands,” Spencer wrote in a letter to the public on Friday.

William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director, has died at the age of 101, his family announced Friday. He also served as a federal prosecutor and judge.

He was the only person to guide the nation’s top law-enforcement agency and its primary intelligence-gathering organization.