The Haitian government plans a low-key ceremony to mark the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is releasing its final crop report for 2012, providing a glimpse of what last year's drought cost the nation's farmers and others.
Six days a week, the rail-thin athlete sets off at daybreak, his neon-green running shoes glowing in the grey light of dawn.
The New York City brokerage firm that lost 658 employees in the Sept.
A grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict the driver of a float involved in a train collision that killed four U.S. military veterans in a West Texas parade.
America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.
A light earthquake has occurred near the spot where a major temblor struck over the weekend in Southeast Alaska.
Police have apprehended a man who apparently climbed the New Jersey roller coaster that was swept into the ocean during Superstorm Sandy and unfurled an American flag.
Turkey's seismology center says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has hit an area off Turkey's Aegean coast.
Coast Guard investigators on Tuesday plan to interview the pilot of an empty tanker that struck a tower in the middle of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while navigating beneath the hulking span.
Syrian refugees in a Jordanian camp attacked aid workers with sticks and stones on Tuesday, frustrated after cold, howling winds swept away their tents and torrential rains flooded muddy streets overnight.
Officials are searching for bodies among the charred ruins of more than 100 homes and other buildings destroyed by wildfires in the island state of Tasmania.
Fire tore through a northeastern Massachusetts condominium building, killing a couple in their late 60s or early 70s and injuring four of their relatives, including a 7-year-old boy who suffered serious burns, the state's fire marshal said Sunday.
A new tally shows New York City has been working overtime on Superstorm Sandy recovery -- more than $150 million of it.
Officials say a tsunami warning is in effect for parts of southern Alaska and coastal Canada after a strong earthquake shook the region.
She was the face of a promise of “immediate” assistance from the federal government in the days after superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast.
Holiday storms that pounded much of the nation with snow and rain did little to ease the overall grip of the worst U.S. drought in decades.
A leading insurance company says natural disasters cost the industry $65 billion last year and that Superstorm Sandy accounted for nearly two-fifths of the total.
When his drought-stricken Nebraska farm was blanketed with several inches of snow, Tom Schwarz welcomed the moisture.
The charity in charge of distributing donations from the nationally televised Superstorm Sandy relief concert has been thinking small when it comes to doling out more than $50 million.
A scientist who examined the dock that recently washed ashore on Washington's Olympic Peninsula says it looks just like the one that came ashore on a central Oregon beach last summer, suggesting it also is a piece of tsunami debris from Japan.
A woman who escaped the blaze told the San Jose Mercury News she lost her parents, Bulmaro and Mariana Maldonado, and 4-year-old daughter Kyra in the blaze.
Authorities say a tour bus crashed on an icy stretch of an interstate highway in Oregon, killing nine people and injuring about 20 others.
A man and boy fishing near the Golden Gate Bridge died on Friday after being swept into the ocean by large waves, authorities said.
Japan's newly installed prime minister has visited the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, site of the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
A scientist who examined the dock that has washed ashore on Washington's Olympic Peninsula says it looks just like the one that came ashore on a central Oregon beach last summer.
Texas is building specially designed "hurricane domes" along its Gulf Coast that will offer shelter during major storms and serve the rest of the time as gyms or community centers.
A New York City hospital that evacuated hundreds of patients after losing power during Superstorm Sandy has partially reopened.
A late season storm has left at least four people dead in separate incidents in the central Philippines but has spared a southern region that was devastated by a typhoon that killed more than 1,000 people weeks earlier.
Flooding sparked by heavy seasonal rains has killed two people and forced nearly 16,000 to flee their homes on Malaysia's east coast.
Nicaraguan authorities say they've ordered the evacuation of some 300 families living on the flanks of the country's highest volcano after it began spewing hot gas and ash on Tuesday.
Images of New Jersey's devastated shoreline captivated the nation in the days after Superstorm Sandy.
From the National Weather Service in Washington, DC Notable U.S. tornado events with at least one F2 (minimum 113-mph) tornado between Dec.
A member of a Sierra Nevada ski resort's patrol team who was injured after being caught in an avalanche has died.
The West Coast this winter is bracing for more sightings of debris washed away by the Japan tsunami.
Six children in Texas have been injured by an explosion that happened after gas was poured from a can onto an open fire pit.
In a story that moved Dec.
For more than a month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that the recent superstorm didn't cause significant problems at any of the 247 toxic waste sites it's monitoring in New York and New Jersey.
The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up.
Some who lost their homes or businesses in Superstorm Sandy have turned to crowd-funding websites to elicit a faster response than they might get from the government or traditional charities.
An Alabama woman says she fell asleep on the couch watching TV and didn't notice a tornado that ripped off part of her roof and damaged most of her home.
U.S. travelers were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations Friday as the first major Midwest snowstorm of the season moved across the Great Lakes toward Canada, leaving deaths in several states. Flight delays were still reported in the Chicago and New York City areas.
As 2012 began, winter in the U.S. went AWOL. Spring and summer arrived early with wildfires, blistering heat and drought.
Tsunami debris experts are setting out to examine a dock that washed ashore on a remote beach in Washington.
A release of water from the Missouri River and recent storms are offering some relief for the Mississippi River, where water levels have been dangerously low.
Sri Lanka's government says the death toll from flash floods and mudslides following three days of heavy rain across the country has climbed to 25, with another 14 people missing.
A massive traffic pileup on a major road left one person dead and 32 people injured on New York's Long Island, with dozens of vehicles scattered over several hundred yards and some even catching on fire.
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