A moderate earthquake struck southwest China on Sunday, causing hundreds of homes to collapse and injuring at least 30 people. The earthquake bureau in Yunnan province, where the quake occurred, said three of the injured were in serious condition. The …
Chile’s president is touring areas badly damaged by a massive 2010 earthquake. The 8.8 magnitude quake and the tsunami it unleashed killed 551 people and destroyed 220,000 homes. Many of the victims came from Constitucion. The tsunami destroyed 80 percent …
The trial for three people charged in a deadly Indianapolis house explosion will not occur next month as originally scheduled. WTHR-TV reports defense attorneys for Monserrate Shirley, boyfriend Mark Leonard and his brother, Bob Leonard, told a judge Wednesday they …
An Albanian appeals court on Wednesday reduced sentences for several top defendants convicted in a deadly ammunition factory blast and acquitted one defendant. The decision was met with dismay by relatives of the deceased. The explosion at Gerdec near Tirana …
Thousands of pine seedlings grown at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas are being packed up and shipped for planting in Bastrop County. There, they’ll replace trees lost in a disastrous wildfire nearly two years …
Officials searched Monday for bodies among the charred ruins of more than 100 homes and other buildings destroyed by wildfires in the Australian island state of Tasmania. Around 100 residents remained unaccounted for, three days after the fires broke out. …
The communities of Harrison and Ooltewah are still scarred with uprooted, twisted trees and homes under construction after a March 2 tornado, but neighbors are helping each other on the path to recovery. The EF3 tornado destroyed 82 homes and …
Long Island, N.Y., officials say more than 2,000 homes were destroyed or left uninhabitable by Superstorm Sandy. In Nassau county, the number will likely reach 1,400. In Suffolk the toll is 675 homes. Officials say that number may grow. According …
A roaring explosion that leveled two homes and set two others ablaze in a huge fire forced about 200 people from an Indianapolis neighborhood where two people were killed, authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls …
Fire investigators say a wildfire that destroyed several homes in the northwest town of Karlstad, Minn., this month was probably arson. The Department of Natural Resources says the fire is still being investigated, and a $6,000 reward is being offered …