Natural Disasters News

For the second time in three years, a federal jury is deliberating whether fear or malice drove a former New Orleans police officer to fatally shoot a man outside a strip mall less than a week after Hurricane Katrina's landfall.

With another dry winter looming, California lawmakers called on Gov. Jerry Brown and President Barack Obama to declare a drought emergency and federal disaster in the state.

Through the month of December, HBO Documentary Films will present "The Battle of amfAR," the story of the founding of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the nation's first AIDS research foundation, by Elizabeth Taylor and research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim.

Crews are dealing with an onslaught of Santa Ana Winds as they work to keep flames from a wildfire away from homes in Ventura County.

The U.S. Agency for International Development will shift from building houses to financing them for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the agency's chief for the Caribbean nation said Monday.

While officers gather outside negotiating sessions, people are smashing storefronts and hauling out anything they can carry, from mattresses to baby carriages to beer.

Snow, ice and freezing rain will strike states from Texas to New England through Tuesday, promising icy roads, power outages and general unpleasantness for much of the country.

The frigid weather that's enveloped virtually the entire United States won't be leaving any time soon, and that could mean more dangerous travel and more deaths.

Dozens of young men stood waiting for storm clouds to pass, as wind stirred up swirls of red dust on the largely deserted street in Central African Republic's capital.

A former New Orleans police officer testified Monday at his retrial that he thought he saw a gun in the hand of the man he shot and killed outside a strip mall in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath - and still believes he was justified to use deadly force.

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North Texas has had another earthquake in the same general area where more than a dozen minor quakes were recorded in November.

"The day they finished taking down my parents' house remains one of the saddest days in my life," Fitch said.

December 8, 2013: A chain reaction accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike involving about 50 cars, according to state police.

A massive winter storm that left parts of Southeastern United States in a deep freeze was pushing up the East Coast on Sunday, with snow and ice snarling road travel and forcing another round of airline cancellations.

Farmers in California's Central Valley are giving thanks that so far this weekend they have dodged the brunt of a storm that brought wind, rain, snow and freezing temperatures to much of the country.

For days, temperatures have plunged across a large portion of the United States, accompanied by a storm system that's brought sleet, snow, ice or a combination of all three.

It is the tallest tree ever selected for the Mansion, and growers are hopeful that is a good omen that sales will be solid in 2013.

Freezing rain has creeping across Tennessee on its way to the mid-Atlantic as the stunning cold, snow and ice that gripped Texas and the west on Saturday makes its advance eastward.

The overflowing River Adur submerged areas of Shoreham in the early hours of yesterday morning after high tides combined with a coastal surge caused the flooding.