Two people died on a wind-beaten Southern California coastal island and emergency crews rescued more than 100 drivers trapped in the snow-caked mountains outside Los Angeles as a fierce winter storm crept over the region Wednesday.
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A Virgin Atlantic passenger plane bound for Las Vegas safely carried out a “non-standard” landing at London’s Gatwick airport on Monday after a landing gear problem, with television pictures showing the plane intact and stationary on the runway.
A dangerous storm system blamed for two deaths in Oregon, thousands of power outages in Washington and flooded roadways in the Bay Area that kept many from work and school pushed into Southern California on Friday, causing mudslides and evacuations.
Strong gales and sheets of rain that knocked out electricity, flooded freeways and toppled trees in Northern California churned Thursday to a slide-prone Southern California bracing for its own beating.
A dayslong storm took a parting shot as it moved out of drought-stricken California Thursday, dumping more heavy rain that triggered flash floods and stranded more than three dozen people in their cars.
President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans.
Maryland’s biggest school district has stripped references to religious holidays from next year’s calendar, removing Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah from the lineup of days off.
Washoe County health officials have conducted their first Ebola screening of a person who was on a flight with a patient who had the virus but released the individual after determining there was no health risk.
Phoenix recorded record rainfall for a single day on Monday, turning freeways into small lakes and sending rescuers scrambling to get drivers out of inundated cars.
Storms that flooded several Phoenix-area freeways and numerous local streets during the Monday morning commute set an all-time record for rainfall in Phoenix in a single day.