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Tropical Storm Beta meandering toward Texas, Louisiana
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Beta on Sunday was making a slow crawl to the shores of Texas and Louisiana, casting worries about heavy rain, flooding and storm surge across the Gulf Coast. Beta was one of three named storms whirling in the Atlantic basin during an exceptionally busy hurricane season....
Desert communities told to evacuate as winds stoke flames
JUNIPER HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Strong winds stoked a wildfire burning for nearly two weeks in mountains northeast of Los Angeles, prompting authorities to issue new evacuation orders for desert communities that lost some homes a day earlier. Meanwhile, officials were investigating the death of a firefighter...
Tropical Storm Beta spurs hurricane worries for Texas
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season was churning along Saturday as the Texas coast prepared for a tropical storm that could strengthen into a hurricane before breaching its shores in the week ahead. Both the city of Galveston and Galveston County on Saturday issued...
Mel Reid takes 2-shot lead in Cambia Portland Classic
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mel Reid shot a 7-under 65 on her 33rd birthday Saturday to take a two-stroke lead over defending champion Hannah Green into the final round of the Cambia Portland Classic. Reid closed her bogey-free afternoon round with a birdie on the par-4 18th at Columbia Edgewater. Winless on the...
Kansas Senate debate sees clashes on Supreme Court, climate
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican nominee for Kansas' open Senate seat called Saturday for quick action to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and dismissed his Democratic opponent's disavowal of Green New Deal environmental proposals so often in a debate that she admonished him,...
Homes burned as winds push California fire into desert floor
JUNIPER HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Strong afternoon winds intensified a wildfire burning for nearly two weeks in mountains northeast of Los Angeles, prompting authorities to issue new evacuation orders Saturday for desert communities that lost some homes a day earlier. Meanwhile, officials were investigating...
Maine gets help to cut diesel emissions from vehicles, boats
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government is awarding Maine nearly a half-million dollars to reduce diesel emissions by targeting vehicles and boats to be retrofitted for cleaner energy sources. The effort will help repower vessels and vehicles in the state and reduce emissions, said Democratic U.S....
Tidal flooding closes streets in Charleston.
CHARLESTON. S.C. (AP) — Several Charleston streets were closed Saturday because of high tide flooding that is expected to continue through Monday morning. The Charleston Police Department announced that the roads were closed. The streets were later reopened, but the police department cautioned that...
Stretch of Blackstone River Bikeway to close for bridge work
LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) — A section of Rhode Island's second-longest bikeway will be closed for parts of next week as workers install new steel beams for a bridge that passes over the path. The section of the Blackstone River Bikeway that's underneath the Manville Bridge in Lincoln will be closed from 6:30...
Greek flooding leaves 2 dead, 1 missing; 600 others rescued
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A storm pounded parts of central Greece, creating flooding Saturday that killed two people, left 1 missing and forced emergency workers to rescue more than 600 people. Authorities identified the two victims as an elderly woman found dead in her flooded home in the region of Thessaly...
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