A late-autumn snowstorm lumbered into the central U.S., unleashing snow and fierce winds that turned roads to ice, reduced visibility to zero and jeopardized thousands of holiday motorists’ travel plans just two days before the official start of winter. The storm was blamed for a fatal accident in eastern Colorado, where a guard and an [...]

I love Thanksgiving, as my one-size-bigger-each-year elastic waistband pants seem to attest. Of course, when I was young I could devour the annual Thanksgiving feast without concern, as calories avoided me like the proverbial plague. Then I hit middle-age and I had to start working progressively harder at getting rid of those extra pounds, particularly [...]

Clouds of orange smoke and ash billowed out of Africa’s most active volcano Nyamulagira, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tuesday after it erupted spectacularly at the weekend. Surrounded by smoke, the volcano — located in the eastern Virunga National Park — was still erupting but was of no threat to locals or the mountain [...]

A tornado was reported in southwestern Oklahoma on Monday afternoon. A tornado was confirmed in southwestern Oklahoma on Monday afternoon, and there were reports of several more with the storm. The tornado appears to have touched down near the Texas state line and moved northeast across the Wichita Mountain Refuge and toward the Fort Cobb [...]

Crews worked feverishly Wednesday to restore power to nearly 1.2 million Northeastern homes and businesses after a freak weekend snowstorm, while many schoolchildren again stayed home and some residents languished for a fourth day in shelters that provided heat and meals. Connecticut, the hardest-hit state, still had nearly 550,000 customers without power, down from more [...]

The six surviving exotic animals freed by their suicidal owner in Ohio will be kept under quarantine at a zoo for now instead of going to the man’s widow, the state Agriculture Department ordered Thursday. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was trying to stop Marian Thompson from reclaiming three leopards, two primates and a young [...]

Bestselling author Teresa Tomeo notes study showing that regular ‘Reality’ viewing promotes bad behavior among young pre-teen and teen girls Maybe the genre should be called “Fantasy TV.” Without question, today’s crop of “reality” TV shows appear to be negatively impacting the behavior and perspectives of young girls who tune in regularly — according to [...]

Law enforcement officials said Wednesday afternoon they had accounted for all but two in a menagerie of animals released from a Ohio farm. Only a wolf and a monkey were still on the loose. Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz said a missing bear and mountain lion were shot dead and a lion made it to [...]

Hurricane Jova slammed into Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 2 storm early Wednesday, killing at least five people and injuring six, while a tropical depression hit farther south and unleashed steady rains that contributed to 13 deaths across the border in Guatemala. Jova came ashore west of the Mexican port of Manzanillo and the [...]

Jova lost its hurricane status Wednesday but remained a deadly threat as a tropical storm, dumping torrential rain across much of Mexico’s Pacific coast and triggering flooding and power cuts. The weakened storm, which roared ashore in Jalisco state Tuesday as a category two hurricane, still packed a punch one day later, with sustained winds [...]