Three days after losing her bid for a third term on the county commission, Diane Rowden says she is regrouping and figuring out what's next. ...more

November 9, 2008

Some gasoline stations in parts of the Southeast are out of fuel and shortages could persist for days as refiners continue to recover from the one-two punch of hurricanes Ike and Gustav. ...more

September 23, 2008

Rescue squads and military helicopters raced to find 11 people missing after an earthquake in mountainous northern Japan sent hillsides crashing down Saturday, killing at least six and injuring more than 140. ...more

June 15, 2008

A quake-formed lake continued to swell Monday even though soldiers used dynamite and anti-tank weapons to blow up boulders in a diversion channel to try to speed its drainage. ...more

June 10, 2008

About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley. ...more

May 28, 2008

The Chinese government warned Monday that as many as 1.2 million residents might have to flee because they could be inundated by a swelling "barrier lake" formed when a river was blocked by landslides from the May 12 earthquake. ...more

May 27, 2008

Flags flew at half-staff, public entertainment was canceled and 1.3 billion people were asked to observe three minutes of silence as China began three days of mourning today for the victims of the nation's massive earthquake. ...more

May 19, 2008

The orange-suited emergency workers had just pulled someone out of the rubble alive Saturday when a chilling cry reverberated around the tilting high-rises, the toppled construction cranes and the market littered with bodies: The valley was about to flood. ...more

May 18, 2008

Windows shattered and building facades and signs fell, but no one was seriously injured when a powerful earthquake shook this rural northeastern town Thursday. ...more

February 21, 2008

What in the name of Alexei Yashin is going on with NHL contracts these days? ...more

January 14, 2008