Tourists abandoned Cancun and other resorts while Mexican authorities evacuated hundreds of residents from low-lying areas ahead of a weakened Hurricane Rina’s pass along Yucatan’s Caribbean coast Thursday. Civil protection officials moved some 2,300 people from Holbox, an island where …
The federal agency charged with helping recovery efforts in the wake of disasters wants to show North Carolinians how to make houses better able to withstand damage from major storms. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will show off what it …
Students from some Thumb communities are going to school at the Michigan Supreme Court. The court is taking justice on the road Thursday by hearing a case at the Tuscola Technology Center in Caro, 100 miles from the state capital. …
Louis Fondren, a Democrat from Gautier, and Barbara Dale Washer, the Reform Party candidate from Hattiesburg, seek to dislodge incumbent Mike Chaney as Mississippi insurance commissioner. Chaney, 67, a Republican from Vicksburg, served in the state Legislature before being elected …
An investigation has found that more than two-thirds of the trips made last year by the Portland Fire Department’s three boats were for non-emergency purposes. The Portland Press Herald reviewed city records following an incident earlier this month in which …
A new report has found thousands of ingredients that go into food have been classified as safe by private industry alone, without any government oversight. The study published Wednesday found that since the early 1960’s, private companies and trade associations …
Snow from the first storm to hit the Front Range knocked out power and heat to thousands of homes and businesses Wednesday and also brought some more snow to Colorado’s mountains. The state’s largest utility, Xcel Energy, said about 140,000 …
The family of a Boston, Mass., pizza delivery man has filed a $15 million wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Domino’s Pizza Inc. and Deutsche Bank after he was lured to a vacant home owned by the bank, then robbed …
Authorities say a rock-climbing tourist has suffered serious head injuries in a fall in the Southern California desert. Thirty-six-year-old Yosuke Komiya of Yokohama, Japan, fell 25 feet (7.6 meters) Sunday afternoon in Joshua Tree National Park. He was flown to …
Authorities say a 72-year-old woman from Texas was accidentally killed at a Shelby County RV park in Tenn., when she was crushed trying to stop her camper from rolling away. Shelby County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Chip Washington said Sharon Bailey …