NEW YORK (AP) — While they fought unsuccessfully to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs from prison after his Arrest for sex traffickingIn their interview, the music mogul’s lawyers described a whole series of atrocities in the federal prison in Brooklyn where he was to be taken: horrific conditions, rampant violence and numerous deaths. Combs, 54, was […]
LA PORTE, Texas (AP) — A massive pipeline fire sent a column of fire looming over some Houston suburbs Monday as emergency workers evacuated surrounding neighborhoods and tried to prevent more nearby homes from catching fire. The fire in a 20-inch liquefied natural gas pipeline must burn out on its own, according to Dallas-based operator […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Perhaps it was fate that a man’s pickup truck became trapped in the rising floodwaters that Hurricane Francine not far from Miles Crawford’s home. The 39-year-old emergency room nurse is professionally trained to save lives — fast — and that’s exactly what he did when he saw what happened in his […]
DULAC, Louisiana (AP) – Shortly after Hurricane Francine As a storm surge inundated a cemetery in the Louisiana bayou town of Dulac, Lori-Ann Bergeron came Thursday to check the graves of three generations of families. Their headstones were fine, but coffins lay next door next to broken crosses and soggy bouquets. “It’s like this almost […]
MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Francine weakened Thursday after Louisiana hit as Category 2 hurricane Hundreds of thousands of customers lost power, a storm surge swept through coastal communities, and fears of flooding grew in New Orleans and elsewhere. As the system moved inland, emergency crews began clearing roads and restoring power while neighborhoods and […]
WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) – Three large forest fires in Southern California expanded dramatically – houses, cars and horse stables burned in the mountain communities, at least a dozen people were injured, officials said on Wednesday. In the close-knit community of Wrightwood, trees burned behind homes as authorities pleaded with residents to evacuate the surging Bridge […]
Amid a spate of climate-related weather disasters such as flooding And Hurricanestogether with the Breaking heat records,Forest fires and many Americans are increasingly concerned about global warmingClimate change was during the Presidential debate. When Vice President Kamala Harris asked the only debate question on climate on Tuesday night, she said, “The young people of America […]
TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Apocalyptic-looking plumes of smoke filled the skies east of Los Angeles on Tuesday as firefighters battled three large forest fires which broke out amid an extreme heatwave and threatened tens of thousands of homes and other buildings. Evacuation orders were expanded Tuesday evening as the fires grew and affected parts […]
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, EE.UU. (AP) – The tropical tormenta Francine was moving along in the Gulf of Mexico and had to conquer the Huracan category of March before making landfall in Louisiana. The United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a traffic alert in an area that was expected to extend from the city of […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm later this week and dump heavy rains across Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane, the National Weather Service said Sunday. The system, located about 340 miles (545 kilometers) south-southeast of […]
