Teams of emergency officials will comb a 4-square-mile area of the Texas Panhandle to assess the damage from a wildfire and search for potential victims. Texas A&M Forest Service spokesman Troy Duchneaux says the crews began a door-to-door search Tuesday …
Tornadoes tore through eastern Japan on Monday, injuring dozens of people, at least one seriously, and destroying some buildings. Police in Saitama prefecture, near Tokyo, said 63 people were reported injured. Details of their injuries were not immediately available. Kyodo …
Emergency officials say nearly 4,000 homes and businesses in five counties were affected by last week’s deadly tornadoes. The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency say they’ve compiled damage assessments from the storms that took …
Authorities are investigating whether logging operations may have sparked a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that destroyed dozens of buildings and forced at least 60 people from their homes, state officials said Wednesday. The wildfire has consumed about 8,700 to …
Firefighters in Northern California are making progress in containing a huge wildfire that has burned dozens of homes and other structures in remote, densely forested terrain. The Ponderosa Fire, which has scorched about 38 square miles, was 50 percent contained …
The owners of two popular Gulf Coast restaurants heavily damaged by fire Sunday morning said they will reopen. The restaurants, The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint in Ocean Springs, Miss., and Rocky and Carlo’s in suburban Chalmette, La., had both …
A strong earthquake destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents, Monday in the central Philippines. At least 13 people were killed and 29 were missing. The 6.8-magnitude quake, in a narrow strait just off Negros …
The Kensett City Council and district court in Arkansas have found new places to meet after a fire destroyed the town’s municipal building. Mayor Max McDonald tells The Daily Citizen that the council will meet at First Baptist Church on …