CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 22, 1999
Windy and dry weather raised the threat of wildfires across the Southeastern United States, where flames have already charred thousands of acres of forest and brush. Residents of 60 homes near the western North Carolina town of Wilkesboro were placed under an evacuation order as a large forest fire raced through the area. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency.
OPINION
September 12, 2005
WHERE THERE'S WATER, there are mosquitoes. And where there are mosquitoes, there is disease -- even diseases we thought we had eliminated long ago. In New Orleans, the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina were just the beginning. The waters are teeming with parasites and bacteria as well as deadly chemicals, bringing the danger of dysentery, severe infection and life-threatening diarrhea.
NATIONAL
November 4, 2007 | Jenny Jarvie, Times Staff Writer
When Rick McKee, the editorial cartoonist of the Augusta Chronicle newspaper, set out to capture the historic and severe drought that is afflicting the Southeast, he did not draw parched rivers or shriveled crops or brown lawns: He drew an oafish, bloated hulk of a boy holding up a straw to slurp up water from a smaller boy's water fountain. Above the larger boy, a sign reads "Atlanta," above the other, "Everybody else."
NEWS
May 16, 2001 | HECTOR TOBAR, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In the center of this river port, known for its turbulent history of conflict between blacks and whites, there is a place where the old ideas about race and the South don't make sense anymore. Drive east from the Mississippi along Union Avenue, just past the studio where a then-unknown Elvis Presley showed up one day to record a song, and you'll come to an in-between place known as Midtown. Here, there are no ethnic or racial majorities.
NATIONAL
September 3, 2005 | From Associated Press
Tropical Storm Maria formed Friday out in the open Atlantic, but it posed no threat to land, forecasters said. The 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season had top sustained winds of 50 mph, up from 40 mph earlier Friday. Its center was about 1,070 miles southeast of Bermuda. It was moving toward the northwest at about 12 mph. "It should stay out in the open Atlantic," said Lixion Avila of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
NATIONAL
January 1, 2003 | From Times Wire Reports
Thunderstorms rolled across the South with tornadoes, heavy rain and pounding hail, killing one person, knocking out power and causing street flooding. Two mobile homes were destroyed at Mary Esther, Fla., as the storms swept across the Florida Panhandle. At least 6,400 homes and business were without power near Mobile, Ala., said an Alabama Power spokesman.