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Texas wildfire that started on Sept.4 found no signs of abating and has destroyed hundreds of homes in the state.

Hurricane Katia on Monday night strengthened into a major Category 4 storm, the second highest level as it moved over the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said.

Vermont residents, already max-out with clean-up and repair work in dozens of villages/towns from Hurricane Irene/Tropical Storm Irene, unfortunately are about to be hit with up to another 4 inches of rain in the next two days on already swollen rivers/streams and saturated ground.

It was like adding insult to injury: not only did Tropical Storm Lee not bring Texas the rain it so desperately needs, but it whipped up wildfires that have killed at least two people and destroyed at least 300 homes, and show no signs of abating.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is heading home from South Carolina to monitor wildfires that are blazing across his state.

In a summer where brush fires have surpassed the worst-season-in-history records, multiple wildfires blazed across southeast Texas Sunday, scorching thousands of acres, stretching across a 16-mile area, and destroying 300 homes, authorities said.

New Jersey is not usually the face of natural disasters. But it became just that on Sunday, when President Obama visited the state to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Irene.

Kofax Plc confirmed its board's decision to prepare the business for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, Jefferies said in a note to clients.

A new report by the National Research Council (NRC) has posed some serious queries about the immediate need for developing a strategic plan for managing space debris to mitigate risks.

Tropical Storm Lee spawned tornado sightings and alerts from the Louisiana Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle on Sunday, and at least one death was reported from a traffic accident related to the storm.

With a surprise Verizon Korean-translated commercial showing an additional frame revealing a Sept. 8 release date, expect the Droid Bionic to be launched on Thursday.

The poll results come in the wake of some inflammatory remarks Haley made about President Barack Obama r

The New Orleans region braced for Tropical Storm Lee on Saturday, with the morning marked by some evacuation orders, flooding and tornado warnings.

He faces charges of falsely reporting a second-degree incident and will be arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead Saturday.

Workers active at 169 production platforms and 16 drilling rigs have been evacuated till now and the shutting-in procedures have been activated at all the production platforms.

The large storm that was churning in the Gulf of Mexico grew as Tropical Storm Lee, on Friday, is bringing up to 20 inches of rains to parts of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Six years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans may need to brace for Tropical Storm Lee, which is inching northward up the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and is expected to creep upon the coast of southern Louisiana this weekend.

Tropical Depression 13 has now upgraded to Tropical Storm Lee and is threatening to bring heavy rainfall to the New Orleans areas over the Labor Day weekend, as bands of thunderstorms pass over the region in the next couple of days. Lee is located just 200 miles southeast of Cameron, La., and 210 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Lee is now packing maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and is moving northwest at 2 mph.

Joe Roth has risen again to be one of Hollywood's most prolific producers, so it's easy to forget that he undertook one of the most: disastrous studio ventures in recent times with Revolution Studios.

At Apple, all senior executives are male. Why? And why so few female CEOs?

America's nuclear power plants are more vulnerable to earthquakes causing catastrophic disasters than previously thought, according to an analysis of government data.