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Staten Island Area Hit by Sandy Chosen for Buyouts

A Staten Island neighborhood where three people died during Superstorm Sandy will be the first to get state-sponsored home buyouts. Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined the planned program during a visit to the borough on Monday. In remarks made as part …

Australians Clean up From Floods as Supplies Dwindle

Military personnel headed to flood-ravaged northeast Australia on Wednesday to help clean up the sludgy aftermath of floods that damaged thousands of homes and businesses and left some communities short of power, food and water. The death toll from the …

Fire Damages 12 Homes on New Jersey Shore Hit by Storm

Since Superstorm Sandy smashed the Jersey shore, owners of flood-damaged homes along the New Jersey coast feared something else might happen to their properties, sitting vacant and largely unwatched. Those fears came true for a dozen homeowners Wednesday morning in …

Most Flood-Damaged Homes in North Dakota Town Repaired

Officials in Minot, N.D., say nearly 80 percent of the homes most heavily damaged by historic Souris River flooding in 2011 are repaired and either being lived in or are very close to being habitable. The flooding in the summer …