MIDWEST HEAT WAVE PROMPTS EARLY SCHOOL DISMISSALS
By GRANT SCHULTE Five year-old Grace Kennedy cools off from the heat in a water fountain in Stinson Park in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. An unusual, late-summer heat…
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SC GOV: HEAVY RAINS A DISASTER FOR AGRICULTURE
By BRUCE SMITH South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and state Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers discuss the effect of this summer’s heavy rains on farmers in South Carolina during a news…
FAMILY OF SLAIN OKLAHOMA COUPLE PURSUES JUSTICE
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN FILE – This combination of undated photos released by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety shows shooting victims Linda and Gary Haas of Tecumseh, Okla.…
THOUSANDS IN GERMANY PROTEST NSA SURVEILLANCE
Hundreds of demonstrators protest against supposed surveillance by the US National Security Agency NSA, durung a rally in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday July 27, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Roland Holschneider) BERLIN (AP) —…
CHRISTIE: OBAMA ‘KEPT EVERY PROMISE’ ON STORM AID
By WAYNE PARRY FILE – In a Thursday, March 21, 2013 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks to a large gathering in Manasquan, N.J., during a town hall…
CRESTS APPROACHING IN SEVERAL TOWNS IN MIDWEST
By JIM SUHR and JIM SALTER A restaurant sits surrounded by floodwater Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Louisiana, Mo. Communities along the Mississippi River and other rain-engorged waterways are waging…
INVESTIGATORS PROBE JET’S CRASH INTO SEA IN BALI
By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI In this photo released by Indonesia’s National Rescue Team, rescuers stand near the wreckage of a crashed Lion Air plane in Bali, Indonesia on…
SNOWSTORM TAKES AIM AT PLAINS, MIDWEST
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH JC Hobbs directs his wife Sarah as they help to pull a van and U-Haul up a hill outside Calhan, Colo. as a storm continued to bring…