Three people in western Kentucky have been indicted for going on what police say was a “burning spree” in Ohio County earlier this year. Police say one of the targets was Horse Branch Elementary School. Kentucky State Police charged 37-year-old …
Thailand battled to protect the capital Bangkok from being swamped by water on Friday, with canals full to the brim after devastating floods across the region that sources in neighbouring Myanmar said had killed at least 100 people there. After …
A small and rare South Texas earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 has shaken homes outside San Antonio. The epicenter of the Thursday morning quake was near Karnes City. The U.S. Geological Survey said it was the largest earthquake …
Police have rescued people trapped in low-lying apartments and in their cars as a torrential rainstorm caused flash floods across Rome and blocked thousands of commuters from reaching their workplaces. Italian authorities said they received more than 5,000 calls for …
One of the Netherlands’ best-known gangsters went to court Thursday to stop the release of a film about the 1983 kidnapping and ransom of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken, in which he played a key role, claiming it misrepresents him. Willem …
Portland, Maine’s two-year-old fireboat has sustained damage after striking an underwater object. Fire Chief Fred LaMontagne tells The Portland Press Herald that the accident happened last weekend while “The City of Portland IV” was on a navigational training run on …
In a year when severe drought scorched the Southwest, a hurricane drowned crops in the East, and river flooding swamped farms in the Midwest, one of the worst places to be a farmer may be just west of the Mississippi …
North Little Rock fire officials say a weekend fire at a storage unit facility has caused $1 million in damage to recreational vehicles and a boat and $35,000 to the building. Firefighters responded to the blaze on Northshore Drive about …
Officials say a possible tornado left a 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) trail of damage in a South Florida neighborhood. Plantation Fire Battalion Chief Joel Gordon said Wednesday that the debris trail has “all the classic signs” of a tornado. Gordon says the …
Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to add more than 1 million sandbags to Bangkok’s vulnerable northern flood defenses after the city’s governor warned they were needed to keep waters from swamping the capital. Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said …