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Moderate earthquake jolts eastern Iran
Iran's state news agency says a 5.2 magnitude earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated district in the country's east. IRNA says the quake hit a ...
As Isaac pushes north, Gulf Coast slowly recovers
As the remnants of Hurricane Isaac pushed their way up the Mississippi valley on Saturday, spinning off severe thunderstorms and at least four ...
Oil companies retake nearly 400 platforms in gulf
Energy companies have reoccupied nearly 400 of the production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico that were abandoned in advance of Hurricane Isaac, a ...
Oil companies returning to offshore sites in gulf
Oil companies have begun returning workers to drilling rigs and production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Offshore sites in the gulf were abandoned ...
Filipino villagers return home after quake; 1 dead
Thousands of villagers who fled their coastal homes during a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines returned home Saturday, but hundreds more ...
Isaac finally leaves Gulf; uncertainty fills gap
As Isaac's drenching rains and cooling winds drifted north of the Gulf Coast, heat and humidity moved back in — along with frustration, exhaustion and ...
Quake off Philippines spurs small tsunami; 1 dead
Thousands of villagers who fled their coastal homes during a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines have returned home, but hundreds more ...
Romney starts fall campaign visiting storm victims
Republican Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town ...
Isaac renews old debate about Louisiana levees
When Hurricane Isaac whirled into the Gulf Coast this week, the federal levee system protecting New Orleans did its job. But the patchwork of ...
Misery in La. as Isaac flooding leaves power out
Isaac sloshed north into the central U.S. on Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and Mississippi and knocking out power, leaving entire ...
Jindal: 70 pct of floodwater will soon be out
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says officials expect to have 70 percent of the water out of an area of Plaquemines Parish that flooded after being hit ...
Obama to visit Louisiana Monday in wake of Isaac
President Barack Obama will visit Louisiana on Monday to examine water and wind damage in the wake of Isaac. White House spokesman Jay Carney ...
Wildfires ravage remote Montana Indian reservation
Ten-year-old Sheldon Limpy kicked through a jumble of burned metal and charred wood, frowning his way through the ruins where his family's house once ...
7.9-quake off Philippines triggers tsunami alert
A 7.9-magnitude undersea quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late Friday, triggering tsunami warnings across a wide swath of Asia.
Weakening Isaac hovers over water-logged Louisiana
Isaac hovered over Louisiana for a third day Thursday, shedding more than a foot of additional rain that forced authorities to hurriedly evacuate ...
Montana wildfires burn homes, cause injuries
Firefighters struggled Thursday to gain control of major Montana wildfires that burned houses and caused injuries, even as crews rushed to tamp down ...
Drought-weary farmers await Isaac's remnants
Indiana farmer John Kolb normally would welcome storms that could provide his crops with badly needed water in this summer of drought. Instead, he and ...
Wildfire ash in river could befoul Colorado beer
A Colorado brewery said Thursday that it's monitoring the water it gets from the city of Fort Collins to make sure residue from a deadly wildfire that ...
Rutgers-Tulane game on at Superdome as scheduled
The Rutgers-Tulane football game will be played Saturday night in the Superdome, only days after Isaac swept across the New Orleans area with ...
Gulf Coast has first-name relationship with storms
Along the Gulf Coast, you're not a real hurricane veteran until you're on a first-name basis with one of the killer storms. That's because for all the ...
Isaac weakens to a tropical depression over La.
Isaac has weakened to a tropical depression after drenching southeast Louisiana and causing flooding. Isaac's maximum sustained winds decreased to ...
Haiti park standoff highlights conflict over land
The police officers and other officials showed up in the mountain clearing on a cool morning armed with shotguns, pistols, sledgehammers and orders ...
Iconic images from Katrina revisited for Isaac
Hurricane Isaac made landfall Tuesday on the eve of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina that devastated the same area of the northern Gulf ...
Rescues continue as Isaac floods parts of La.
Isaac dropped unrelenting rain Thursday, flooding areas north and south of New Orleans, and officials had to scramble to evacuate and rescue people ...
Oil falls slightly as Hurricane Isaac goes inland
The price of oil is edging lower as traders wait to see what impact Hurricane Isaac will have on production in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil fell 32 cents ...