INDIAN OFFICIALS SAY FEW DEATHS IN MASSIVE CYCLONE
By KAY JOHNSON Indian villagers collect their belongings at the cyclone hit Arjipalli village on the Bay of Bengal coast in Ganjam district, Orissa state, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.…
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EASTERN INDIA BRACES FOR IMPACT OF MAJOR CYCLONE
In this Thursday Oct. 10, 2013 photo, fishing boats are pulled off to the shore following a cyclone alert on the Bay of Bengal coast at Puri, Odisha state, India.…
GREAT PLAINS STORM BRINGS BOTH SNOW, TORNADOES
By CHET BROKAW Brenda Nolting, of Rapid City, S.D., rolls her cart to her car after stocking up on necessities Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 at a local supermarket in Rapid…
AUTHORITIES: 5 HIKERS TRAPPED BY COLO. ROCK SLIDE
Colorado State Patrol Trooper Brandon Wilkins tells a driver Monday Sept. 30, 2013, that the road is closed to all non-emergency traffic while emergency response and law enforcement agencies deal…
PAKISTAN AID CHOPPER TARGETED; 355 DEAD IN QUAKE
By ADIL JAWAD and ABDUL SATTAR A Pakistani woman searches her belongings through the rubble of her house, which was destroyed in Tuesday’s earthquake, in Labach, the remote district of…
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…
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,…