By Adriana Navarro, Accuweather.com (0) People walk in a flooded street in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Saturday after powerful Typhoon Hagibis. Photo by EPA-EFE The day before Hagibis made landfall in Japan, residents of Tokyo were scraping for the last supermarkets had to sell across the city as they prepared for what the Japan Times reported Tokyo Gov. Yuriko [...]
By Allen Cone (0) Two people died and another remains missing after the upper floors of the Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans collapsed Saturday. Photo courtesy of the New Orleans Fire Department Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A second person was found dead before a search ended Saturday night in the collapse earlier in [...]
By Allen Cone and Sommer Brokaw (0) John Bel Edwards received 47 percent of the votes cast for Louisiana governor on Saturday, meaning he will face "Eddie" Rispone in a runoff. File Photo by AJ Sisco/UPI | License Photo Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards fell short of the 50 percent threshold to [...]
By Jessie Higgins (0) A farm near Valley City, N.D., is blanketed by snow Friday afternoon. Photo courtesy of Alisha Nord EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A rare fall blizzard this week has buried thousands of acres of crops from Montana to Minnesota. Farmers across the Great Plains were scrambling to get their crops out [...]
By Ben Hooper (0) Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A Florida wildlife sanctuary said a female lion was tranquilized after escaping her enclosure through a gate that had been left open by a volunteer. The Endangered Animal Rescue Sanctuary in Marion County said the 16-year-old lioness, named Venus, escaped Wednesday when a volunteer accidentally left a gate open [...]
By Nicholas Sakelaris & Danielle Haynes (0) Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Four fast-moving wildfires swept through Southern California Friday, destroying buildings and forcing thousands of people to evacuate as humidity dropped and winds picked up, fire officials said. The largest is the Saddleridge Fire near Slymar that burned 4,700 acres as of Friday morning and spread [...]
By Darryl Coote (0) Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The 21-year-old man accused of killing 22 people at a West Texas Walmart has pleaded not guilty. Patrick Crusius, indicted last month by a grand jury on charges of capital murder, entered his plea Thursday during his arraignment hearing at the El Pas County Courthouse. Crusius was arrested on Aug. 3 close to [...]
Darryl Coote (0) Kurdish fighters are seen near al-Ghanamya village at the Syria-Turkey border. Turkish officials said Wednesday its troops will soon cross into Syria for a major offensive. File Photo by Youssef Rabie Youssef/EPA-EFE Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Turkey launched air and land operations against Kurdish forces in northern Syria on Wednesday, the Kurdish-led Syrian [...]
By Nicholas Sakelaris (0) Planned power outages would continue in dozens of California counties on Thursday, Pacific Gas & Electric said, as a wildfire-preventing measure. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Systemic power outages in California may be expanded to cover more than 1 million homes and businesses, as Pacific Gas [...]
By Ben Hooper (0) Oct. 8 (UPI) -- An Illinois family said they returned home to find a wheel that had been dropped by a helicopter in midair crashed through the roof of their home. Linda Taylor-Whitt said she and her family had just returned to their Lynwood home from eating out Saturday evening when her [...]
