North Carolina floodwaters, death toll rise as Matthew heads to sea
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (Reuters) – Raging North Carolina rivers still rising after Hurricane Matthew threaten up to a week more of death and destruction, the state’s governor said on Sunday as the storm’s remnant headed out to sea, leaving a path of carn…
Thompson, Brooklyn’s black district attorney, dead at age 50
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ken Thompson, the first African-American to be elected district attorney of Brooklyn, has died at age 50 of complications from cancer, his office said on Sunday.
U.S. Republicans in crisis over Trump’s vulgar video
WASHINGTON/ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – The U.S. Republican Party on Sunday confronted its biggest crisis in more than 40 years when its presidential nominee, Donald Trump, faced a storm over sexually aggressive comments he made about women in a newly uncover…
Pressure on Trump likely to be intense at second debate with Clinton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, facing eroding support from his party over lewd remarks about women, goes into a second presidential debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton on Sunday needing to demonstrate he remains a…
Train derailment injures dozens, disrupts service on Long Island, New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Long Island Rail Road passenger train derailed on Saturday near the community of New Hyde Park, New York, injuring as many as 29 people and halting service on the key transit line in both directions, railroad officials and police…
Coastal Florida cleans up wreckage of powerful storm Matthew
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Reuters) – Joan Galasso walked through the empty wreck of the waterfront seafood restaurant she and her husband started a quarter-century ago and was horrified.
One killed, eight wounded in shooting at Michigan party
(Reuters) – A man was killed and eight other people were wounded early Sunday in a shooting at a party at a strip mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the suspect was still at large, police said.
Pressure on Trump likely to be intense at second debate with Clinton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, facing eroding support from his party over lewd remarks about women, goes into a second presidential debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton on Sunday needing to demonstrate he remains a…
Boat capsizes in San Francisco, injuring eight passengers
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A boat with 30 people aboard capsized on Saturday at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, trapping several passengers under the vessel’s hull before rescue swimmers managed to pull everyone from the water, though two children w…
Weakened Hurricane Matthew still deadly as it buffets U.S. Southeast
CHARLESTON, S.C./SAVANNAH, Ga. (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew slammed into South Carolina on Saturday, packing a diminished yet still potent punch after killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing major flooding and widespread power outages as it ski…
