California storm hits south after drenching north
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ANDREW DALTON A dangerous storm system blamed for two deaths in Oregon, thousands of power outages in Washington and flooded roadways in the Bay Area…
Natural disasters
ARMY HELPS FLOOD VICTIMS IN SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL
Aerial view of Santa Leopoldina municipality, flooded after heavy rains, in Espirito Santo state, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013. Civil defense officials say the death toll in the floods and…
UN URGES MORE AID FOR PHILIPPINE TYPHOON RECOVERY
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, shakes hands with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario as they meet reporters in Makati, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Dec.…
ENVOY SAYS CHINA HAS RIGHT TO SET ANOTHER AIR ZONE
By JIM GOMEZ Philippine Red Cross Chairman Richard Gordon, right, welcomes Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing, center, before turnover rites of payloaders donated by Chinese companies in Manila, Philippines on Monday,…
Power of Illinois tornadoes comes into focus
This aerial view on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, shows a home that was damaged by a tornado that hit the western Illinois town of Washington on Sunday. It was one…
Philippine corruption magnifies effects of typhoon
By OLIVER TEVES and NICK PERRY A plea for help in SOS is painted on a road in an aerial view from a U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopter over San Jose,…
State-by-state look at storm, tornadoes in Midwest
The home of Phyllis Rawlins is destroyed home in Kokomo, Ind., Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Sunday’s storm picked up Rawlins’ Victorian-style house and moved it about 100 feet, leaving a…
Mass burial held in Philippine city hit by typhoon
By OLIVER TEVES and KRISTEN GELINEAU Workers arrange body bags at a mass burial site at the Basper public cemetery in Tacloban, Leyte province, central Philippines on Thursday, Nov. 14,…