AP - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind.
AP - A small plane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff, killing everyone on board, including the pilot and nine people who had spent the day working at a skin cancer clinic in remote community.
AP - A man who held police at bay during a two-day Maryland motel standoff and his pregnant girlfriend, who claimed to be his hostage, both face charges, state police said Saturday.
Tropical Storm Fay was hugging Florida's Gulf Coast Saturday -- four days after making landfall in southwest Florida. It is expected to make landfall in Louisiana, north of Lake Pontchartrain, on Sunday afternoon and move west into Baton Rouge on Monday and Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said.
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay made a record fourth landfall in Florida on Saturday and pummeled the state's northern panhandle with heavy rainfall as it prepared to cross into southern Alabama.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States won the gold medal in the men's 4x400 meters relay on Saturday in the last athletic event on the Beijing Olympic track.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nuclear power plant that lies within commuting distance of New York City is more likely to be shaken by an earthquake than previously thought because it sits atop a newly identified intersection of two active seismic zones, scientists said.