Marquette and vicinity: Today, mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Soth wind 5 to 10 mph. Tonight, a 20 percent chance of showers after 2 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Extended forecast: Sunday, a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2 p.m. ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Perhaps it was fate that a man’s pickup truck got trapped in rising floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Francine not far from where Miles Crawford lives. The 39-year-old off-duty emergency room nurse is professionally trained in saving lives — quickly — and that’s exactly what he did the moment he saw what was happening Wednesday night in his New Orleans neighborhood. Crawford grabbed a hammer from his house and ran to the underpass where the truck was stuck, wading through swirling waist-high water to reach the driver. When he got there, he saw that the ...
By JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE Associated Press MORGAN CITY, La. — Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of utility customers, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flooding ...
By CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii — Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his grandmother to a reef at low ...
By JIM SALTER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press A growing wildfire in Northern California forced hundreds of people to evacuate Wednesday as a heat wave threatened to make fire conditions worse. In the Midwest, another wildfire kept residents of South Dakota’s second-largest city on ...
By MORGAN LEE AND BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. — A flash flood that transformed a series of idyllic, azure waterfalls into a monstrous brown froth was ferocious but not unusual for the summer rainy season on the Havasupai reservation, one of the most remote reaches of ...
