Potent storm ‘was a monster’
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - Hurricane Isabel pinwheeled into North Carolina and Virginia with devastating force early yesterday afternoon, then screamed up the Eastern seaboard, knocking out power for more than 2...
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Cities scramble after power fails
Hospitals in Cleveland switched to emergency generators, used fans to cool laboring mothers and served patients cold meals. Police dispatchers in Erie, Pa., went back in time and scribbled emergency...
Jessica Lynch gets hometown welcome
ELIZABETH, W.Va. - She whirled in on a Black Hawk helicopter, addressed throngs of reporters and waved from a military motorcade to the thousands who lined the route to see...
Iraq's oil a dubious balm for ailments
With United Nations sanctions lifted, Iraq is poised to resume exporting crude by mid-June and start using its oil wealth - it has the world's second-largest reserves - to bankroll...
Doctors try to protect Lynch from spotlight
With the return of the nation's most famous prisoner of war to U.S. soil, military psychologists are working to shield her from the inevitable crush of attention, which psychologists say...
To W.Va. town, soldier is still its 'little girl'
PALESTINE, W.Va. - Anything her older brother could do, she could do, too. Baseball. Basketball. Childhood adventures through the hilly green cattle farms and hollows of Appalachia. No matter that...
In Alaska, they'd 'kill for snow'
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Somewhere up in the heavens, they evidently thought it would be a joke: Let's switch the winters on people and see what happens. We'll sock the mid-Atlantic,...
'Space coast' mourns, worries about future
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - Felix Alberto Soto Toro still wants to be an astronaut, now more than ever. He has dreamed of floating among the stars since he was...
Andersen trial to set the stage for main event
Today begins Act I in the prosecution of Enron. No, the bankrupt energy giant is not on trial -- not yet, anyway. And no, the case is not about the...
Postal route in N.J. tracked
TRENTON, N.J. - Federal investigators descended on suburban Ewing Township yesterday, tracking a postal carrier's route where at least one of the anthrax-tainted letters that have rattled the nation in...