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Crews battle fire in park close to Appalachian Trail, I-80

February 24, 2020

HARDWICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters from federal and New Jersey agencies battled a forest fire for a second day Monday in a popular hiking area that is crossed by the Appalachian Trail and a major interstate highway.The fire burned in New Jersey's...

Nine dead in Turkey as 5.7 earthquake strikes western Iran

By ANDREW WILKS | February 23, 2020

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Nine people were killed in eastern Turkey by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake early Sunday morning, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.The quake centered just east across the border in neighboring Iran, west of the Iranian city...

Stress, rumors, even violence: Virus fear goes viral

By FOSTER KLUG | February 21, 2020

TOKYO (AP) — You might have heard that the fear of a new virus from China is spreading faster than the actual virus.From earnest officials trying to calm a building panic. From your spouse. From the know-it-all who rattles off the many much more likely...

Soggy neighborhoods under flash-flood warning in Mississippi

By ROGELIO V. SOLIS | February 18, 2020

RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — Forecasters expected more heavy rains in parts of the flood-ravaged South on Tuesday, prolonging the misery for worried people who still can't get back in homes surrounded by water.Some of the hardest-hit areas were under a flash...

Hundreds still flooded from homes in Mississippi capital

By ROGELIO V. SOLIS and MELINDA DESLATTE | February 17, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The swollen Pearl River appeared to have crested Monday in Mississippi’s capital, but authorities warned the hundreds of evacuees in the Jackson area not to rush back home until they got the all clear, and a forecast of more...

Wales bears the brunt as Storm Dennis hammers Britain

By PAN PYLAS | February 16, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Storm Dennis hammered Britain Sunday, bringing a month's worth of rain in just 48 hours to parts of South Wales, which bore the brunt of the country's second severe storm inside a week.Rivers across Britain burst their banks and a number...

UN official says airstrikes kill over 30 civilians in Yemen

By BY AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY | February 16, 2020

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Strikes killed more than 30 civilians in a mountainous northern Yemeni province Saturday, the U.N. humanitarian chief for the country said, calling the attack “shocking.”The Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis, accused the Saudi-led...

Greek island of Karpathos hit by 4.8-magnitude quake

February 14, 2020

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook Greece's southeastern Aegean Sea islands Friday, officials said. No damage or injuries were reported.The University of Athens' Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake...

Torrential rains leave swollen rivers, downed trees in South

February 13, 2020

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Days of torrential rain across the Southeast left residents to deal with rising rivers, falling trees, weakened dams and mudslides Thursday as storms finally subsided.An Alabama town asked residents to cut back on water usage...

Hill collapses, roads flooded, dam eroded by Southern rains

By JAY REEVES | February 11, 2020

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Tennessee hillside collapsed, roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Southeast on Tuesday after a day of heavy rains that once again threatened a Mississippi lake where a dam previously was in danger of failing.The...

Police: Driver traveling 79 mph when Oklahoma students hit

By KEN MILLER | February 11, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A pickup truck was traveling 79 mph (127 kph) in a 25 mph (40 kph) zone when it struck members of a high school cross-country team on a sidewalk in suburban Oklahoma City, killing two and injuring the others, a police sergeant said...

Ferocious storm in Europe kills 8, causes travel disruptions

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | February 11, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — Ferocious winds, with gusts over 200 kph (125 mph), lashed Corsica and whipped up a forest fire that flared overnight on the French Mediterranean island on Tuesday, after a storm with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains battered northern...