Crews were beginning to search this morning through the rubble left by a tornado that tore through the small northeast Iowa town of Parkersburg, killing six people. Mayor Bob Haylock said the Sunday afternoon tornado destroyed about one-third of Parkersburg, a town of about 1,000 people. The number of dead and injured would have been higher if not for warning sirens that sounded early enough to
Bhopal, May 26: Tribal Welfare and Forest Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has directed that implementation Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition to Forest Rights) Act 2006 and Rule 2008 should be undertaken as a model in one Gram Panchayat of every district in the state.
A hospital has made almost £250,000 in one month from parking charges levied on patients, visitors and staff. Recent fee increases have put Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge on course to take around £3million this year, which would be a record for an NHS trust.
Jim Johnson is vetting VP picks for Obama, which is a curious choice because he helped John Kerry and Walter Mondale with this process. No one would mistake Johnson for any kind of change agent.
RED OAK – At 2:40 p.m. Thursday, May 22, Red Oak Fire and Rescue was dispatched to a one-vehicle rollover on Farm-to-Market 2377 at Oglesby Road. The driver of the pickup was transported to Parkland Memorial Hospital via AirEvac.
As many as 10,000 of those killed in the earthquake were children, adding to the tragedy in a country where most families are allowed to have only one.
One of the questions the Secret Service should be asking is: Were Liz Trotta and FOX News criminally negligent in using the public airwaves to joke about threatening a presidential candidate?
It's clear this isn't the typical tour of a museum with major works of art when the guide sidles up to a painting and begins: "I'll never forget it. We're having cheeseburgers across the street at Hank's and he's telling me about this one."
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has warned against outside influences in next month's upcoming run-off election, likening one American diplomat to a "prostitute" and threatening to oust another from his country.
The World Bank will raise at least $5.5 billion with the United States, Britain and Japan this year to help poor nations use clean technology and tackle global warming.
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