What's up with Dems?
I have traveled since Labor Day to more than a dozen states, including Florida and Colorado, both of which switched from red to blue in the last presidential election, as well as Texas and Tennessee, which remained bright red. Regardless of which sta...
 3.0K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 150.0 Hurricane Rick strengthens
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category 2 hurricane, was centered about 260 miles south-sou...
1.0K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 150.0 Dangeorus Hurricane Rick grows off Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) Hurricane Rick quickly strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm off Mexico s Pacific coast on Saturday and forecasters said it could strike the Baja California Peninsula in about five days. The storm had sustaine...
1.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 150.0 Hurricane Rick strengthens
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category 2 hurricane, was centered about 260 miles south-sou...
1.0K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 150.0 Mudslides kill more than 160 in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines. The l...
1.4K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 1000.0 Aid reaches deeper in Indonesia quake zone
PADANG PARIAMAN, Indonesia Aid workers reached farther into Indonesia s disaster zone today, delivering food and water for the first time to villages cut off for a week by earthquake-triggered landslides. House after house in the village of Lubuk L...
3.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 237.0 USFS backs new Wilderness area near Reedsport
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area near Reedsport. It s in an area of the Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil s Staircase. The agency s deputy chief, Joel Haltrop, appeared Th...
2.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 150.0 Two women found alive in quake's rubble
PADANG, Indonesia Rescuers pulled two women alive from a collapsed college, nearly two days after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, as cries for help from a flattened hotel spurred the frantic search for more survivors today. The ...
7.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 237.0 Wall of water kills 100 people
APIA, Samoa A massive tsunami unleashed by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing today. The death toll was expected to rise. Survivors fled the fast-chur...
7.6K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 150.0 Asia storm leaves more than 300 dead
MANILA, Philippines (AP) One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, blowing down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushing Vietnamese houses under mudslides after submerging much of the Philippine cap...
5.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 150.0 Southeast floods block highways; eight dead
AUSTELL, Ga. Washed-out roads and flooded interstate highways around Atlanta added to the misery today after days of torrential rain in the Southeast that claimed at least eight lives, including a 15-year-old boy whose body was found in the Chattoo...
4.9K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 150.0 Teen Idol: Decision day
It s anybody s game at this point. Ask the judges in any talent competition in the week before the final what they think about the contestants chances, and that is what they ll say. Every time. What s different about this year s Bay Area Teen Idol f...
7.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 150.0 Quake size, location are part of tsunami alert
Curiosity about what sorts of seaquakes would set off a tsunami alert inspired one of the questions in this edition of Ask AP, a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers questions about the news. If you have your own news-rela...
4.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 150.0 Sea threatens ancient tortoise fossil
NEWPORT (AP) A tortoise fossil embedded in 20-million-year-old rock has been found along the Oregon coast and a researcher is trying to remove it before the sea claims it. This is big, said Bill Hanshumaker, marine education specialist at the Hatf...
2.3K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 150.0 Powerful Indonesia quake kills at least 32
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) A powerful earthquake rattled southern Indonesia today, killing at least 32 people crushed by falling rock or collapsed buildings and sending thousands fleeing outdoors for safety in the middle of the work day. Hospitals qui...
3.5K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 150.0 Japan minister warns his party is in trouble
TOKYO (AP) Voters are turning away from Japan s ruling party in virtually every district and the opposition is on track to win in a landslide when elections are held this weekend, a senior Cabinet minister said today. At stake in the elections are ...
4.0K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 150.0 Seventh heaven
COOS BAY As Bay Area Teen Idol has gotten down to its top seven contestants, the competition is closer than ever. Five of them have taken a top score none more than once. Six have made the top three at least once, with no combination appearing tw...
7.4K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 150.0 Thousand typhoon survivors found
CISHAN, Taiwan (AP) Rescuers have found nearly 1,000 people alive in the area around three remote villages devastated by Typhoon Morakot, which pummeled the island over the weekend, Taiwan s military said today. Hundreds more are missing and feared...
3.5K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 301.0 Hundreds rescued from Taiwan typhoons
CISHAN, Taiwan (AP) Taiwan s military rescued about 300 people today after a mudslide touched off by Typhoon Morakot consumed a village, but scores remained missing. A helicopter on a relief operation in the area crashed into a mountain with three ...
5.4K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 237.0 Mudslide buries roughly 600 people
TAIPEI, Taiwan A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a police official and a rescued villager said today. Typhoon Morakot dumped up to 80 inches of rain on some communities over the wee...
2.6K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 150.0 | 
