Tornado causes damage, injures three in Birmingham, Alabama
(Reuters) – A tornado struck Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday, damaging houses, uprooting trees and injuring at least three people in the state’s largest city, law enforcement and weather officials said.
California wildfire burns 1,200 acres northwest of Los Angeles, closes highway
VENTURA, Calif. (Reuters) – A wildfire northwest of Los Angeles burned about 1,200 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of a major highway and led to evacuations on Saturday, fire officials said.
Christmas Day fire at Houston mosque appears suspicious: report
(Reuters) – A Christmas Day fire at a Houston mosque appears suspicious and started in several places, CNN reported on Saturday, citing a federal official.
Body found inside truck linked with California shooting suspect
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A dead body was found inside a U-Haul truck that was being pushed by a man who fired on transit police in the San Francisco-area city of Hayward, officials said on Saturday.
Jetliner evacuated in New York after smoke reported
(Reuters) – Passengers and crew on a Spirit Airlines jetliner parked at a gate at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in preparation for a flight to Florida were evacuated on Saturday after a report of possible smoke in the aircraft, an airports authority spo…
Tornado death toll reaches 17 in U.S., more stormy weather looms
(Reuters) – The death toll from tornadoes this week in the southern United States has climbed by two to 17, officials said on Saturday, as the nation braced for more stormy weather during the busy post-holiday travel weekend.
Four dead in Christmas morning mobile home fire in California
(Reuters) – A mother and her three children, including a 6-month-old baby girl, died on Friday when a fire ripped through their mobile home in Southern California on Christmas morning, officials said.
Three found dead in apparent murder-suicide in New Jersey luxury apartment
(Reuters) – Three people were found dead inside a luxury New Jersey high-rise apartment building in what authorities said late Friday appeared to be a murder-suicide.
Eastern U.S. sees warm Christmas, winter storm looms for Plains
(Reuters) – Much of the U.S. East Coast basked in unseasonable warmth on Christmas Day with record high temperatures set or tied in several cities, including New York, even as a tornado hit Alabama and a major winter storm loomed for the southern Rocki…
Cleanup begins from Southern U.S. storms that left 14 dead
(Reuters) – Recovery crews and utility workers began cleaning up widespread damage on Thursday left by severe storms that spawned tornadoes across six states in the U.S. South and Midwest, killing at least 14 people and destroying scores of homes.
