A series of tornadoes raked a broad swath of the Midwest on Sunday, destroying homes and a trailer park in Oklahoma and injuring at least 21 people, officials said.
As night fell, rescuers with flashlights picked through the rubble of a trailer ...
EAST ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Fines Cole Sr. hugged the crying boys inside the East St. Louis police station and told them everything would be OK.
Cole's 15-month-old granddaughter, Jay'lah Keith, was run over and killed Saturday by a car the two boys ...
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The roughly 125,000 commuters who rely on the Metro-North rail line -- as well as thousands of other travelers -- face a potential nightmare of detours and traffic jams Monday morning in the aftermath of Friday's train crash ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Two FBI agents died Friday in an apparent off-shore training exercise.
The agency's website identified the officers as Special Agent Christopher Lorek and Special Agent Stephen Shaw. They were members of the FBI's elite ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Yahoo's board of directors has reportedly approved a $1.1 billion purchase of the popular blogging site Tumblr, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer's boldest move to date to revitalize the struggling Internet giant.
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When the magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan more than two years ago, there were 1,200 global positioning system stations recording ocean floor movement.
None was linked to that nation's tsunami warning system, which underestimated the full ...