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A stiff breeze blows palm trees along the coast in Gulf Shores, Ala., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Forecasters lifted tropical storm watches along the Alabama coast but surf conditions are still dangerous. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Storm system Karen dissipates off Gulf Coast

After days of lumbering toward the Gulf Coast, the storm system Karen dissipated Sunday as storm preparations in the region were called off or scaled back. As tides began to recede along coastal Louisiana, crews worked to pick up sandbags and some fishermen took to the water. In Lafitte, the ...

  • Updated: 3:37 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013
With the help of his friends, Daniel Larsen stretches to close a storm shutter at his home in Myrtle Grove, La., in preparation for Tropical Storm Karen, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Holding the laser for him is Jace Eschete, who said it looked like they were in the worst possible path, but the best possible strength. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Ted Jackson) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; USA TODAY OUT; THE BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE OUT

Karen weakens to depression off La. coast

Karen lost more of its punch late Saturday and fell below tropical-storm status while stalling off the Louisiana coast. Even as a tropical depression with top sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph), the system threatened to bring strong wind and heavy rain to vulnerable low-lying areas. However, all watches ...

  • Updated: 10:56 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013
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This image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Karen taken late Thursday night Oct. 3, 2013. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said late Thursday that Karen was about 340 miles (547 kilometers) south of the mouth of the Mississippi River and had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) with higher gusts. The storm was moving north-northwest at 10 mph (16 kph). It could be at or near hurricane strength late Friday and early Saturday, forecasters said, with the center near the coast on Saturday. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Karen weakens as it approaches Gulf Coast

Pickups hauling boat trailers and flatbed trucks laden with crab traps exited vulnerable, low-lying areas of southeast Louisiana on Friday as Tropical Storm Karen headed toward the northern Gulf Coast, a late-arriving worry in what had been a slow hurricane season in the U.S. On Friday, Alabama joined Louisiana, Mississippi ...

  • Updated: 11:35 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2013

Jindal declares state of emergency around state

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Thursday after Tropical Storm Karen formed in the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to come ashore over the weekend along the Gulf coast. The declaration authorizes the state Office and Homeland Security and other state agencies to activate emergency plans for ...

  • 4:33 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013
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Tropical storm Wutip lashes Vietnam's coast

Tropical storm Wutip lashed central Vietnam on Monday after sinking at least two Chinese fishing boats near the Paracel Islands, leaving 75 fishermen missing, officials said. The storm uprooted trees, cut power lines and damaged more than 1,000 houses. There was no immediate word of injuries, flooding or major structural ...

  • Updated: 12:56 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, 2013
The Jolly Tar, a store in Bay Head N.J., remained boarded up on Sept. 24, 2013, nearly a year after Superstorm Sandy damaged it. The store was not able to reopen for the 2013 summer season. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll finds nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans spent less time at the shore this summer, many fearing that businesses had not reopened after the storm. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Poll: Jersey residents spent less time at shore

Many New Jersey residents spent less time at the shore than usual this summer, according to a poll released Wednesday, giving credence to officials' oft-repeated worries that visitors would stay away during the lucrative season because of a perception that Superstorm Sandy had wiped out the entire coastline. Nearly 40 ...

  • Updated: 5:53 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013
Passengers whose travel plans were affected by Typhoon Usagi wait at airline counters at Hong Kong's international airport Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. The year's most powerful typhoon slammed into southern China, forcing hundreds of flight cancellations, shutting down shipping and train lines and killing nearly two dozen people. The typhoon wreaked havoc on airport schedules in Hong Kong, nearby Macau and mainland China, upsetting travel plans for many passengers who were returning home at the end of the three-day mid-autumn festival long weekend. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Landslides kill 20 in northwest Philippines

Torrential monsoon rains hit the northwestern Philippines on Monday, triggering landslides and killing 20 people in areas already weakened by a powerful typhoon, and raising the death toll to 47 from storms across Asia. Philippine officials said soldiers and villagers were also searching for at least seven people missing in ...

  • Updated: 7:38 a.m. Monday, Sept. 23, 2013
Tourists from mainland China brave strong wind near the waterfront in Hong Kong Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.The year's most powerful typhoon had Hong Kong in its crosshairs on Sunday after sweeping past the Philippines and Taiwan and pummeling island communities with heavy rains and fierce winds. Typhoon Usagi was grinding westward and expected to make landfall close to Hong Kong late Sunday or early Monday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Typhoon blows into China, kills 33 people in Asia

A powerful typhoon that slammed into southern China with winds that blew cars off the road has caused more deaths, bringing the toll in Asia to at least 33 on Monday. Typhoon Usagi, which was the season's strongest storm at its peak, forced hundreds of flight cancellations and shut down ...

  • Updated: 12:29 a.m. Monday, Sept. 23, 2013
Residents from the village La Pintada rest inside the Acapulco Convention Center after their town was affected by flooding, in Acapulco, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Tropical Storm Manuel, the same storm that devastated Acapulco and the surrounding area, gained hurricane force and rolled into the northern state of Sinaloa on Thursday before starting to weaken, falling again to tropical storm strength. (AP Photo/Michael Weissenstein)

Mexico looks for landslide victims, chopper

Mexican soldiers dug through tons of mud and dirt in search of victims of a massive landslide, as authorities looked for a federal police helicopter that went missing while carrying out relief operations on the flood-stricken Pacific coast. The helicopter with three crew members on board was returning from the ...

  • Updated: 11:57 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, 2013
In this photo from the collection of the Monadnock Center for History and Culture, shows flood waters in the center of town in Peterborough, N.H. during the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. Sept. 21, 1938, Seventy-five years ago the hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800. It remains the most powerful and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history. (AP Photo/Monadnock Center for History and Culture)

AP PHOTOS: The Great New England Hurricane of 1938

It slammed into land and rapidly moved north, destroying buildings, altering coastlines, ripping apart forests and shocking a population that had never experienced a hurricane. About 700 people died 75 years ago when the storm known variously as the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 or the Long Island Express ...

  • Updated: 6:16 a.m. Friday, Sept. 20, 2013
This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Manuel taken at 3:45 a.m. EDT Thursday Sept. 19, 2013. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Manuel was a Category 1 hurricane hugging Mexico's coast early Thursday and expected to produce 75 mph winds and between 5 and 10 inches of rain over the state of Sinaloa. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Mexico victims recount horror; toll rises to 97

With a low, rumbling roar, an arc of dirt, rock and mud tumbled down the hillside in the remote mountain village of La Pintada, sweeping houses in its path, burying half the hamlet and leaving 68 people missing in its mad race to the river bed below. It was the ...

  • Updated: 8:01 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013
FILE - In this Tuesday Aug, 16, 2005 file photo an iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle. Scientists who are fine-tuning a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even as greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. Leaked documents show there is widespread disagreement among governments over how to address the contentious issue in Sept. 23-26 stock-taking report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)

Climate report struggles with temperature quirks

Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling over how to address a wrinkle in the meteorological data that has given ammunition to global-warming skeptics: The heating of Earth's surface appears to have slowed in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. ...

  • Updated: 4:59 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato, left, stands in front of investigators in Toms River, N.J., Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, as he answers a question about the boardwalk fire in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights last Thursday. Coronato said the massive boardwalk fire was accidental and linked it to electrical wiring and equipment that was compromised by Superstorm Sandy nearly a year ago. Investigators say the fire, which destroyed more than 50 boardwalk businesses, started under a building that housed a candy store and an ice cream stand. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Christie: Sandy aid for burned NJ shore businesses

Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday defended his decision to use federal Superstorm Sandy recovery money to help rebuild businesses burned by a devastating boardwalk fire last week. Christie said boardwalk-area businesses in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights are entitled to the money because Sandy was cited as a contributing cause ...

  • Updated: 6:52 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013
Hundreds of stranded tourists gather around a Mexican Air Force jet as they wait to be evacuated, at the air base in Pie de la Cuesta, near Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. With roads blocked by landslides, rockslides, floods and collapsed bridges, Acapulco was cut off from road transport after Tropical Storm Manuel made landfall on Sunday. The airport as well, was flooded. Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco to evacuate at least 40,000 mainly Mexican tourists stranded in the resort city. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico floods kill 80, thousands stranded

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The death toll from days of flooding in southern and central Mexico rose to 80 on Wednesday, and new reports of landslides in a village near the resort of Acapulco threatened to drive the number of casualties even higher. Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said ...

  • Updated: 5:47 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013
Friends and relatives stand next to caskets containing the remains of members of the Gallegos family after a landslide buried a home on the outskirts of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Twin storms, Manuel and Ingrid, left scenes of havoc on both of Mexico's coasts. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

Acapulco tourists stranded; Mexico death toll 47

The death toll rose to 47 Tuesday from the unusual one-two punch of a tropical storm and a hurricane hitting Mexico at nearly the same time. Authorities scrambled to get help into, and stranded tourists out of, the cutoff resort city of Acapulco. With roads blocked by landslides, rockslides, floods ...

  • Updated: 8:37 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013
This aerial photo shows aftermath of a massive fire that burned a large portion of the Seaside Park boardwalk, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, in Seaside Park, N.J. The fire, which apparently started Thursday in an ice cream shop and spread several blocks, hit the recently repaired boardwalk, which was damaged last year by Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/The Asbury Park Press, Bob Bielk)

NJ boardwalk fire linked to Sandy-damaged wiring

The massive fire that destroyed part of a Jersey shore boardwalk and dozens of businesses began accidentally in wiring damaged in Superstorm Sandy, and should prompt coastal property owners to inspect their own equipment for similar danger, officials said Tuesday. The boardwalk fire in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights started ...

  • Updated: 5:23 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013

New trial ordered in post-Katrina bridge killings

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, concluding the case had been tainted by "grotesque prosecutorial misconduct." In a 129-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt ...

  • Updated: 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013
A damaged vehicle stands in the middle of a road after a landslide caused by heavy rains came down on a low income neighborhood in the city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, Monday Sept. 16, 2013. Tropical Storm Ingrid and remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel drench Mexico's Gulf and Pacific coasts, flooding towns and cities in a national emergency that federal authorities say has caused at least 34 deaths. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

Acapulco tourists stranded; Mexico death toll 38

Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco Tuesday to evacuate some of the tens of thousands of tourists stranded in the resort city by flooding and landslides that shut down the highway to Mexico City and swamped the international airport. The death toll rose to 38 from the combined punch of ...

  • Updated: 12:55 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013
Big waves go over breakwater near anchored fishing boats in Fujisawa, near Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Powerful typhoon Man-yi was bearing down on Japan and went past Tokyo on Monday, leaving one dead and dumping torrential rains, damaging homes and flooding parts of the country's popular tourist destination of Kyoto, where hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate to shelters. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Powerful typhoon downgraded after lashing Japan

Crews were cleaning up wrecked houses and assessing damage Tuesday in the wake of a powerful typhoon that lashed Japan with torrential rains, leaving at least two people dead. Typhoon Man-yi weakened into a tropical storm by late Monday, though violent winds persisted into the night. Dozens of people were ...

  • Updated: 12:14 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013
Floodwaters rage past an urban area after the Huacapa River overflowed due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Tropical Storm Ingrid and the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico's Pacific and Gulf coasts with torrential rains while it appeared that the heaviest blow Sunday fell on the southern coastal state of Guerrero, where Mexico's government reported 14 confirmed deaths. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)

34 dead as big storms hit Mexico on opposite sides

The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched northeastern and southwestern Mexico with torrential rains Monday, flooding towns and cities, cutting highways and setting off landslides in a national emergency that federal authorities said had caused at least 34 deaths. The Mexican government said the country had not ...

  • Updated: 10:43 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, 2013
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