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

CNN -- Virginians faced a massive cleanup project Tuesday after at least three tornadoes damaged dozens of homes and injured more than 200 people. At least 200 were injured Monday in Suffolk, where a twister destroyed several homes and businesses, said Bob Spiel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- Firefighters gained ground Sunday against an early season wildfire that slowly chewed its way through dense brush near Los Angeles, forcing more than 1,000 people from homes in the foothills. About 500 firefighters attacked the 400-acre fire, aided by.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Firefighters had a close call early Monday as they worked to keep a wildfire away from homes in the foothills east of Los Angeles. Winds, which had been fairly tame, unexpectedly kicked up, sending flames within yards of several houses on the northern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 15, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- The onslaught of homes facing foreclosures has yet to ebb, a research report showed Tuesday, with bank repossessions skyrocketing last month as more troubled homeowners mailed in their keys and walked away. And the worst isn’t over: the wave of adjus.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 29, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Lava from Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, destroyed three abandoned houses this week in a nearly deserted neighborhood, scientists on the Big Island reported. The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said a lava flow en.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- The wildfires in California have forced an exodus of estimated 950,000 people from their homes. But where have they all gone? The American Red Cross reported Wednesday that only a small fraction of the nearly 1 million evacuees spent the past few nights a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- More San Diego County residents faced orders to leave their homes early Wednesday as wildfires threatened new areas of charred, smoke-choked Southern California. The newest evacuees from De Luz, a community near the Camp Pendleton Marine base, and from th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 23, 2007 @ 8:06am neoform

MSNBC -- Around 300,000 told to flee Firefighters — who lost valuable time trying to persuade stubborn homeowners to leave — had their work cut out for them as winds gusting to 70 mph scattered embers onto dry brush, spawning spot fires. California official.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 11:31am neoform

CNN -- A small plane crashed into two homes Tuesday in Sanford, Florida, near Orlando, killing the pilot and the passenger on the aircraft and injuring four people, three of whom were critically burned, authorities said. The two dead were believed to be the only.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

FOX News -- Days of deadly storms flooded roads, damaged homes and knocked down trees in Texas, and about 200,000 homes and businesses remained in the dark Thursday. At least three people have been killed — two hit by lightning and a third stuck in a submerged c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A massive spring storm plowed toward the Midwest early Wednesday after dumping more than a foot of snow on the Colorado foothills and spawning a tornado that killed nine people along the Texas-Mexico border. Six of the victims were killed a few miles s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 2:20am neoform

CBS News -- Residents of 200 homes were ordered to evacuate Saturday as a wildfire burned out of control in hills and canyons in this city east of Los Angeles, authorities said. The fire burned about 1,400 acres, or 2.1 square miles, and had burned a shed and the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 1:39pm neoform

USA Today -- Anhydrous ammonia leaked from a railroad tank car Saturday and the fumes led authorities to evacuate several homes in southern Lake City. There were no immediate reports of injuries, the Wabasha County sheriff's office said. The leaking car was part.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Washington Post -- Stored in such places as the vacant land near an airfield in Hope, Ark., an industrial park in Cumberland, Md., and a warehouse in Edison, N.J., are the results of one of the federal government's costliest stumbles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina --.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A lightning-sparked wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that already burned 16 homes was moving closer Thursday to the scenic community of Big Sur, where it threatened 500 houses. The blaze was only 3 percent contained late Wednesday and had bur.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Relentless wildfires burned into the early morning Tuesday across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses. Firefighters in the Brevard County town of Palm Bay have spent more.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 19, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

MSNBC -- Airlines faced passenger backlogs Wednesday from hundreds of flights grounded by storms that chased people from flooded homes and deluged roads in the nation’s midsection, killing at least two people in Missouri and sweeping a teen down a drainage pipe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Launched by the White House in October to head off a rising tide of home foreclosures, the Hope Now Alliance said this week that it has helped over a million troubled borrowers trying to keep their homes. But critics of the program say it’s not clear ho.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- Thousands of evacuees have returned to parts of California devastated by wildfires - some finding their homes no more than smouldering heaps. Fire crews have been gradually bringing many of the blazes under control. But more than a million people we.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- As flames scorched the San Diego County landscape behind thousands of people who fled their homes after receiving automated warning phone calls, emergency officials in the Bay Area said they are glad to have similar notification systems in place here... Read More