Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
A NEW NORMAL: Jackson County Sheriff's Department navigates budget cuts
Sheriff Gary Schuette explains how the Sheriff's Department is navigating hundreds of thousands of dollars in budget cuts.
Winter Storm Coats Cities In Ice, Snow From Midwest To Northeast
Storm Freya whipped from the Midwest into the Northeast Thursday, coating roads in slick ice from Baltimore up the I-95 corridor, making for dangerous commutes and forcing school closures and delayed ...
Queensland floods updates: Hundreds of properties inundated in deluge but BOM says conditions are easing — as it happened
Conditions are starting to ease across north Queensland but authorities have warned the risk of dangerous flooding remains.
Roads crumble, hundreds evacuated and town hit by metre of rain as Qld smashed by floods
A major bridge broken apart in record breaking floods could leave residents cut off “for weeks”, with truck drivers carrying essential supplies forced to drive an extra 700km to reach the battered ...
Hundreds flee Queensland floods, two houses lost in Victorian bushfires
The rain-soaked north of the country will continue to face heavy rainfall for days, while fires and wild storms continue to ...
500+ calls for help, roads crumble, homes smashed amid Nth Qld deadly deluge
Emergency crews have pleaded with North Queensland residents to evacuate ahead of life-threatening flooding which is expected to inundate 1700 homes and has already claimed the life of a woman who ...
Qld weather: New warnings, detail of woman’s death amid 1000mm+ North Queensland deluge
North Queenslanders are bracing for “cyclonic levels” of rainfall that could cause more life-threatening flooding, after ...
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Rain hits L.A. amid worries of mudslides; Malibu schools shut; I-5 closed at Grapevine
After an epic dry streak, the first real rain of winter fell in Southern California, bringing elevated risk of floods and landslides to areas recently burned by wildfires. Heavy snow was expected ...
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Met Office issues yellow warnings for 61 areas as Storm Herminia hits - full list
The Met Office has warned that Storm Herminia which is set to batter the UK - just days after Storm Éowyn left two dead last week - will bring wind and heavy rain that threatens the possibility ...
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California Wildfires: Expected rain may boost firefighting efforts, but officials are vigilant about flooding.
Still, the forecast showed a small risk that bursts of heavy rain could ... a historic Black haven. The median sale price of a home there is about $1.3 million. Image Ash from the Eaton fire ...