Posted by uspostWorldThursday, November 11th, 2010
The vessel is being pulled by two tugboats and followed by three others. The Carnival Splendor, which is carrying 4,500 people, was 200 miles (310km) south of San Diego when the fire broke out on Monday morning. The head of Carnival Cruise Lines has called the fire the worst accident in the company’s 35-year history. [...]
Newly formed Tropical Storm Nicole soaked much of Cuba on Wednesday while causing floods and landslides that toppled bridges, knocked out power and killed at least two people in hard-hit Jamaica. The storm had sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and it was not expected to grow much further as it passes over the [...]
Much of South Florida was placed under a tropical storm warnings Tuesday as a sprawling system got itself together enough for the National Hurricane Center to designate it depression No. 16. It was expected to cross Cuba overnight, probably as Tropical Storm Nicole, and be somewhere off or on the Miami-Dade and Broward coastline by [...]
More than 41,000 Allegheny Power customers lost electrical service Wednesday afternoon when powerful thunderstorms rolled through the region.The hardest-hit areas were Fayette, Washington and Greene counties, where numerous trees and power lines were reported down.
Ralph Houk the legendary former manager of baseball teams like New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers died on Wednesday afternoon.The death of the former New York Yankees manager Ralph Houk comes after the recent death of George Steinbrenner, the principal owner of the team who died recently of heart attack. The New [...]