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Emergency officials said there were about 140 water rescues in Dorchester overnight.

U.S. Coast Guard pilots searched for a third day for the cargo ship El Faro and its 33 mostly American crew members after it went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin as it passed over the Bahamas on Thursday. The company that owns the ship said a container that appears to...

Coast Guard officials in Miami said the rescue took place Thursday evening as the area experienced heavy weather caused by Hurricane Joaquin. Driving to work in drizzling rain, Bishop saw several high-water areas near train underpasses in town but didn’t have to alter his...

Three people died on Friday and Saturday in traffic incidents in South Carolina, and a vehicle passenger died in North Carolina on Thursday when a tree fell on Interstate 95, officials said.

Sunday’s NRL grand final clash between the Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys is cause for celebration in the Sunshine State, as it will be the first all-Queensland final in the game’s history.

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This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, October 4, 2015.at 9:45 AM EDT shows slowly weakening Hurricane Joaquin southwest of Bermuda, moving in a north-northeast direction.

Rough surf will pound the beaches. It is not a place to be. “We also are anxious about downed power lines and the associated power loss that ensues”.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Bermuda was getting lashed Sunday by gusting winds and pelting rains from a weakening Hurricane Joaquin as its spinning centre tracked just southwest of the wealthy financial haven and tourist destination after plowing through the Bahamas as a major storm.

Early Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said its aircrews have spotted “life jackets, life rings, containers and an oil sheen” in the sprawling search area but they have not yet been able to confirm whether the debris and oil is from the 790-foot El Faro.

Forecasters in Miami say Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm, is centered about 500 miles (805 kilometers) southwest of Bermuda and has top sustained winds of 150 mph (240 kph).

Associated Press video journalist Tony Winton in Miami contributed to this report, along with Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, and AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein in Washington. “Freeport, Grand Bahama, Eleuthera and other tourist areas are...

HOOKER Royce Simmons, playing his last game at 33, was the unlikely hero of Penrith’s last gasp grand final win over Canberra, scoring from a Raiders goal-line drop out before emotionally declaring he wanted to have a beer with every single Penrith supporter to celebrate.

Once the rain ends, the threat of flooding persists because the ground is too saturated to absorb water, meteorologists said.

As of Tuesday morning, about 2.44 inches of rain in September had been recorded at the official National Weather Service monitoring station in Rutland, but most of that fell in the span of four days during the second week of September.