Millions of Gulf Coast residents who survived Ida's catastrophic rampage face a new danger — excessive heat and widespread power outages.
Ida, which made landfall Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane, has already contributed to four deaths.
Hundreds of (...)
Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US, knocking out power to all of New Orleans, blowing roofs off buildings and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River as it rushed from the Louisiana coast (...)
Hurricane Ida became a Category 4 storm early Sunday morning, rapidly intensifying to sustained winds of 150 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
That's just 7 mph from making Ida a Category 5 storm. It was 60 miles south of the (...)
Hurricane Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, shortly before 1 p.m. ET Sunday as an extremely dangerous, Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
Ida, striking on the 16th anniversary of the (...)
After slamming Cuba twice in less than 24 hours, Hurricane Ida is expected to rapidly strengthen before pummeling Louisiana on Sunday, forcing evacuations in New Orleans and the surrounding coastal region on the eve of the 16th anniversary of (...)
New Orleans residents stocked up on supplies and prepared their homes on Friday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry threatened severe rain and flooding when it comes ashore as possibly the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019.
The storm was forecast (...)
Spain's Jon Rahm and American Ryan Palmer partnered for a three-under par 69 Sunday to win the US PGA Zurich Classic pairs event by three strokes.
Palmer and Rahm finished 72 holes at the TPC of Louisiana course near New Orleans on 26-under par 262 (...)
Two plain-clothes Chicago police officers were shot and wounded as they sat in an unmarked vehicle in what authorities are describing as a targeted attack on the city's South Side. A manhunt was underway on Wednesday.
Two vehicles pulled up (...)
As many as 30,000 people have been rescued following unprecedented floods in the southern US state of Louisiana, including a 78-year-old woman who spent a night stranded in a tree, police said late Monday.
Residents awoke on Tuesday to find their (...)
Emergency crews plucked motorists from cars stranded by high water along a seven-mile stretch of south Louisiana interstate, pulled others from inundated homes and waist-deep waters and braced for more of the dangerous work Sunday after conducting (...)
Protests against the shootings of two black men by police officers shut down main arteries in a number of US cities on Saturday, leading to numerous arrests, scuffles and injuries in confrontations between police and demonstrators.
Undeterred by (...)
A deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes in Gulf Coast states Tuesday night was expected to bring severe weather to the Carolinas by Wednesday afternoon.
The Tuesday storms mangled trailers at an RV park, ripped roofs from buildings and killed (...)
A storm system is sweeping across the central and southern U.S., bringing tornadoes and wind gusts that ripped roofs from barns and hurled trees into power lines, AP reported.
Officials said at least two people were killed Saturday. A man died after (...)
One person was killed and at least eight injured Friday in an explosion at a chemical plant in Donaldsonville, La., officials said, according to UPI.
The accident was the second such explosion in two days at chemical plants in Ascension Parish; two (...)
An explosion tore through an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, triggering a fire and injuring at least 11 people, authorities said.
Rescue planes and helicopters are searching for at least two crew members who are still missing.
The (...)
After spreading destruction across the Gulf
Coast, the one-time hurricane Isaac Saturday delivered much-hoped-for
rain to the parched Mid-West, according to UPI.
It has already delivered showers to much of Arkansas, Missouri and
southern Illinois (...)
Lil Wayne has been told to cut his grass.
The Times-Picayune reports the rapper was cited for high grass and weeds at his 10,000-square-foot (930-square-meter) mansion in a gated subdivision in Kenner, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans.
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Drew Brees threw four touchdown passes and ran for another Monday to spark the New Orleans Saints to a 49-24 rout of the New York Giants in a game of National Football League contenders.
Brees, the 32-year-old quarterback who led the Saints to a (...)
In the biggest game at Tiger Stadium in half a century, No.1-ranked Louisiana State came from 14 points down to beat No. 3-ranked Arkansas 41-17 Friday and secure a spot in college football Southeastern Conference championship game.
Tyrann Mathieu (...)
US President Barack Obama headed to the Gulf Coast on Sunday for a firsthand update on a massive and growing oil slick creeping toward American US shores from Louisiana to Florida.
Crews have had little success stemming the flow from the ruptured (...)
Hurricane Ida moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, prompting a declaration of emergency in Louisiana and concern along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The storm regained hurricane intensity overnight Saturday, becoming a Category 2 hurricane, but (...)
Quarterback Tim Tebow combined with the University of Florida's swarming defense to give the Gators a 13-3 win over Louisiana State in college football Saturday.
Two weeks after suffering a concussion that had him in doubt for the game, Tebow led (...)
Rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller has been sentenced to life in prison for his second-degree murder conviction.
District Judge Hans Liljeberg gave Miller the mandatory life sentence on Friday, days after the rapper was found guilty of the 2002 killing (...)
After the Crimson Tide missed a chip-shot field goal on the final play of regulation, John Parker Wilson scored on a 1-yard sneak in overtime to give No. 1 Alabama a 27-21 victory over No. 15 LSU on Saturday, clinching a spot in the Southeastern (...)
The top US emergencies official has been removed from his role managing the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is being sent back to Washington from Louisiana where he has been (...)