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A Flash Flood on a Pennsylvania Road Claims 4 Lives; 3 Others, Including a baby, are Missing

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — A sudden flash flood swamped a southeastern Pennsylvania road, sweeping several cars away and claiming at least four lives. Three other people, including a 9-month-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, remained missing, authorities said. Officials …

Northeast Winter Storm Shuts Schools, Knocks Out Power

The start of a winter storm with heavy, wet snow led to hundreds of school closings, canceled flights and thousands of power outages in parts of the Northeast on Tuesday. The storm’s path included parts of New England, upstate New …

Winter Storms Ravage US from California to Northern Plains

Dangerous winter weather trapped drivers on icy roads, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and grounded multiple flights from California through the northern Plains on Thursday. For the first time since 1989, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard …

Lufthansa IT Meltdown Strands Thousands of Passengers

FRANKFURT — An IT failure at Lufthansa stranded thousands of passengers and forced flights to Germany’s busiest airport to be canceled or diverted on Wednesday, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables. More than 200 …

U.S. Travel Insurance to Take Off as Year-End Cancellations Spook Flyers

Demand for travel insurance in the United States is set to jump this year, as more Americans turn cautious after a spike in flight cancellations and lost luggage in the last two months upended holiday plans of tens of thousands …

Winter Weather Cancels Flights, Leads to Death in Texas

DALLAS (AP) — Winter weather brought ice to Texas and nearby states Tuesday, causing the cancellation of more than 1,300 flights nationwide and bringing traffic to a standstill on an interstate through Arkansas. Numerous auto collisions were reported in Austin, …

Heavy Snow Causes Havoc in Japan as Cold Snap Sweeps Through Asia

Heavy snow blanketed wide swathes of Japan on Wednesday, snarling traffic, forcing hundreds of flight cancellations,disrupting train travel and leaving at least one person dead. An unusually cold weather front and extreme low pressure systems set snow falling and strong …

Minimal Airline Delays, Cancellations a Day After US Outage

Delays and cancellations among flights across the United States were minimal on Thursday, a day after a system that offers safety information to pilots failed, grounding U.S. air traffic and leading to thousands of stranded travelers. There were 636 delays …

Air Departures Resume After FAA Lifts Ground Stop

Airlines began resuming flights after a system outage led US authorities to temporarily ground planes nationwide early Wednesday, a dramatic disruption to the air-traffic system expected to cause ongoing delays and cancellations. The Federal Aviation Administration said normal air traffic …

Southwest Chaos Is Told-You-So Moment After Warnings on Old Tech

The Southwest Airlines Co. meltdown that’s stranded thousands of passengers across the US has its root in outdated technology that analysts and its unions have warned about for years. “People have a right to be really angry and annoyed,” Cowen …