SAN DIEGO — U.S. Air Force rescuers hoisted two badly burned Chinese fishermen from a Venezuelan boat hundreds of miles off Mexico’s Pacific coast to take them to a San Diego hospital.The two were among 17 Chinese crew members believed aboard a fishing vessel that caught fire and sank in ...
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — In the latest blow from a dayslong chain of severe weather across the South and Midwest, the Florida Panhandle and Alabama Gulf Coast were hit with widespread flooding early Wednesday, with people stranded in cars and homes waiting for rescuers to find a way around ...
PRESTON, Idaho — A Idaho cemetery undergoing springtime maintenance is dismaying passers-by who have taken notice of oversized dirt clods and dug-up gravestones.The warmer weather clean-up is a yearly ritual at Preston Cemetery, where workers unearth headstones each fall and replace them in ...
HOUSTON — A federal judge in San Antonio said Wednesday that Texas’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and should be blocked while opponents seek to overturn it, granting a victory to supporters of gay unions in the nation’s second-largest state.U.S. District Judge Orlando ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Crew worked Wednesday to rescue two backcountry skiers with broken bones from a steep slope in northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains, after an avalanche killed two of the skiers’ companions and forced them to spend a cold and snowy night bundled in rescue ...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was sued Monday by four same-sex couples seeking the right to marry and overturn a law that threatens imprisonment to those who seek legal recognition in other states.The complaint, filed in Madison federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union, is the latest ...
WASHINGTON — At least 92 Air Force officers assigned to the nation’s nuclear arsenal have been implicated in a proficiency-test cheating scandal and temporarily relieved of their duties, officials said Thursday, announcing that they had temporarily taken out of commission nearly one-fifth ...
ATLANTA — Atlanta highways instantly became clogged with commuters who left work at the first sign of snow, bronze statues of civil rights heroes were encrusted, and snowplows that hardly ever leave the garage were sent rolling through the city.At one point, traffic in the business capital of ...
JACKSON, Wyo. -- Congressional stubbornness didn’t stop Grand Teton National Park from having a record year in 2013.An improving economy and heightened consumer confidence helped bump visitation by 5 percent in a year where the partial federal government shutdown, sequestration and stagnating ...
BOSTON, Conn. — A storm expected to bring more than a foot of snow in places along with strong winds and punishing cold pushed into the Northeast on Thursday, extending Christmas break for some students while posing the first test for New York’s new mayor and perhaps the last challenge for ...
