MIGRANT SHIP CAPSIZES OFF ITALY, KILLING 94
By NICOLE WINFIELD Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward…
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TERRORISTS CLAIM 137 KILLED IN KENYA MALL ATTACK
By DAVID RISING and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Mary Italo, center, grieves with other relatives for her son Thomas Abayo Italo, 33, who was killed in the Westgate Mall attack, as they…
HO– USE BACKS BILL TO BOOST LOGGING IN NAT’L FORESTS
By MATTHEW DALY FILE – This March 18, 2011 file photo shows a Douglas fir tree on federal forest land outside Ruch, Ore. The blue paint marking a tree for…
RAGING FIRE STRIKES AT HEART OF SANDY-HIT NJ TOWN
By WAYNE PARRY and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Onlookers watch from the shore as black smoke rises from a fire on the Seaside Heights, N.J. boardwalk Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The fire…
HEAVY RAINS CA– USE FLOODING IN COLO
By COLLEEN SLEVIN and P. SOLOMON BANDA Officials investigate the scene of a road collapse at Highway 287 and Dillon at the Broomfield/Lafayette border, Colo., that sent three vehicles into…
2 DEAD AS FLASH FLOODING HITS PARTS OF COLO.
By P. SOLOMON BANDA and STEVEN K. PAULSON A city worker talks on his phone while surveying high water levels on Boulder Creek following overnight flash flooding in downtown Boulder,…
VENEZUELA GOVT CLAIMS SABOTAGE IN DEADLY BLAST
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. Venezuela’s oil minister said Monday that…
EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED AT YOSEMITE FIRE
In this photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, members of the Roosevelt Interagency Hotshot crew, from Fort Collins, Colo., gear up for a controlled burn operation as they fight…