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Rivers crest across Midwest; more rain in forecast
Those fighting floods in several communities along the Mississippi River were mostly successful Sunday despite the onslaught of water, but an ominous ...
Skier, 4 snowboarders killed in avalanche ID'd
Authorities have released the names of four Colorado snowboarders and one skier killed over the weekend in the state's deadliest avalanche in more ...
5 snowboarders killed in Colorado avalanche
Five snowboarders were killed Saturday afternoon after apparently triggering a backcountry avalanche on Colorado's Loveland Pass, authorities said.
Midwestern river cities brace for floodwaters
The fast-rising Mississippi River was making travel difficult Saturday, both on the river and for those simply trying to get across it.
Gardeners make plans with no certainty in forecast
There's no question that Eric Ciula picked a bad year to get into a competition for growing the biggest tomato. The worst U.S. drought in decades was ...
Floodwaters rising after storms deluge heartland
Flood fighters from small Mississippi River hamlets to the suburbs of Chicago staged a feverish battle Friday to hold back raging rivers, after days ...
From Rockies to Rust Belt, storm brings extremes
A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest on Thursday and ...
2 road deaths tied to wide spring storms system
Authorities are blaming two road deaths on a massive spring storm system that is dumping snow and rain from the Rocky Mountains to the Rust Belt.
Scientists: Superstorm Sandy jolted United States
Superstorm Sandy didn't just rattle the East Coast, it also jiggled the ground across the country ever so slightly, scientists reported Thursday.
Army climbers help recover body on Alaska glacier
A pair of Army mountaineering experts spent six hours down a 140-foot hole in an Alaska glacier and helped shovel out more than a ton of snow to ...
Rain prompts flood worries in Mo., Ill., Iowa
The Mississippi River, so low for much of the winter that barge traffic was nearly halted, could reach up to 10 feet above flood stage by the middle ...
Storm closes Wyo. roads, scratches baseball game
Skiers rejoiced and stores pulled snowblowers out of storage as a persistent spring storm delivered another round of wet snow to parts of Wyoming, ...
2 children die in Kenya landslide; 41 flood deaths
Kenya's Red Cross says two children buried in a landslide overnight have died, as the country's death toll from heavy flooding rose to 41. The Red ...
Spring storm bringing needed snow to Colo., Wyo.
A slow-moving spring storm is bringing much-needed moisture to parts of the Rockies and the Plains, but winds are raising the wildfire danger to the ...
Rockies-Mets game delayed due to snow on field
Dick Monfort was quite formidable on the mound — of snow, that is. Shovel in hand, the Colorado Rockies owner joined a crew of team employees helping ...
Wash. searchers wait to seek avalanche victim
Dangerous conditions Monday prevented rescuers from searching for a hiker who was caught in an avalanche over the weekend in the Cascade Mountains ...
1 dead, 1 missing in avalanches east of Seattle
A female snowshoer has died hours after she was dug out of an avalanche by fellow hikers, and a man remained missing Sunday, one day after a pair of ...
Good weather after 2012 heat at Boston Marathon
The heat was unprecedented and so was the offer: Any of the 27,000 runners in last year's Boston Marathon could skip the race and automatically ...
Investigators probe Lion Air crash in Bali
Indonesian investigators on Sunday began working to determine what caused a new Lion Air passenger jet to miss a runway while landing on the resort ...
Spring storm socks Midwest, Deep South; 3 dead
A powerful spring storm unleashed tornadoes and winds strong enough to peel the roofs from homes in the Deep South and heaped snow and ice on the ...
3 die in spring storm packing ice, snow, tornadoes
A strong spring storm that socked the Midwest with ice and heavy, wet snow made its way east, raking the South with tornadoes Thursday, with three ...
Cold March keeps shoppers' spending tepid
So much for new spring shorts and T-shirts. As cold weather lingered across most of the country, Americans shopped modestly in March. U.S.
Severe storms sock Midwest, push east; 1 dead
At least one death has been blamed on a strong spring storm system that's brought everything from tornadoes to ice and snow to much of the Midwest and ...
Correction: Superstorm-Hurricane Warnings story
In a story April 4 about a change in the way that hurricane warnings and watches are issued, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the ...
Russia's Sochi busy storing snow for 2014 Olympics
In April, at the end of another seemingly endless winter, most Russians are eager to get rid of the piles of snow that have clogged their cities and ...