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U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 4, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- At least one tornado ripped through central Arkansas Thursday evening, savaging a mobile home park and sending National Weather Service forecasters into a bunker as the storm roared overhead. "There's pretty extensive damage in the Little Rock area," said.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 3, 2007 @ 12:29am neoform

CNN -- The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Under the Federal Tort Act, Thursday was the last day.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Dec 7, 2006 @ 8:13am neoform

Baltimore Sun -- All wars have a way of creating collateral damage, as the desk-bound bureaucrats euphemistically call the dead innocents, destroyed buildings and decimated towns that just happen to be in the way of bombs and bullets. Kathryn Johnston was collateral damag.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 29, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Southern Virginia residents will be assessing the damage today from yesterday's tornadoes that left more than 200 people hurt. Gov. Tim Kaine has declared a state of emergency in some areas. He will be touring the hardest hit regions today. Three to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 6, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- New York police said a small explosion outside a military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday caused minor damage. The explosion occurred around at 3:45 a.m. There were no reported injuries. Two witnesses, a man and a woman, told a local.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- An overnight fire caused $400,000 worth of damage to Bobby's Fo'c's'Le Cafe, a popular spot on San Rafael's marina, officials said today. Fire investigators believe the blaze broke out in the kitchen of the cafe, located at 102 Loch Lomond Drive, said.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

USA Today -- Two tornadoes hit central Iowa on Tuesday night, causing only minor damage as the twisters avoided heavily populated areas, weather officials said. Authorities reported a tornado at 7 p.m. outside Coon Rapids in Carroll County, where telephone poles we.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 11:41am neoform

USA Today -- Heavy rain, wind and hail pelted northern and eastern Iowa on Monday, downing trees and causing some structural damage, officials said. Winds reached up to 70 mph in the Mason City area, and a tornado hit Washington County just before 6 p.m., said Mark.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 11:03am neoform

New York Times -- It was just six inches. That was what made the difference at 4:40 a.m. yesterday as Gilberto Cantu, a truck driver from Texas, approached the New Jersey entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel in his big rig, loaded with bathtubs, toilets and plumbing fixtures... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 10:27am neoform

USA Today -- New Orleans and Louisiana, swamped when the city's storm protections failed during Hurricane Katrina, demand the federal government pay a damage bill that is more than double the entire cost of the massive Gulf Coast rebuilding effort. So many claims h.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 3:49pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A powerful storm rolled FEMA trailers and tore apart businesses early Tuesday, heaping more misery on neighborhoods still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina. An 85-year-old woman who had nearly finished remodeling her hurricane-damaged home died in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 17, 2006 @ 6:30pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Preliminary damage estimates from the earthquake that shook Hawaii over the weekend hit $46 million on Tuesday, and.. Read More