By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and SUDHIN THANAWALA , Associated Press CHICO, Calif. (AP) — With the confirmed death toll standing at 63 in the Northern California wildfire, authorities on Friday struggled to determine how many of the more than 600 people listed as missing have turned up, or whose remains could still be in the ashes.…
By ANDREW DALTON and JOHN L. MONE, Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — They are trying to find lost loved ones, to sift through the ashes of their homes, to count, identify and mourn the dozens of dead — all while the wildfires rage on. Communities in Northern California prepared for another day under siege Friday,…
T MEXICO CITY (AP) —The U.S. Geological Survey says the new earthquake to strike Mexico had a magnitude of 6.1 and was centered in the southern state of Oaxaca. It initially calculated the magnitude as 6.2. The director of Mexico’s disaster agency says it’s an aftershock of the 8.1 quake that hit on Sept. 7…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – River levels are falling after record and near-record flooding in parts of the Midwest, but the crisis is far from over. The troublesome Black River that runs from southeast Missouri into northeast Arkansas was down after cresting earlier this week in places like Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Pocahontas, Arkansas. But the…