Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida on Sunday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.
A fire in Volusia County has burned between 500 and 600 acres and caused road closures and home evacuations, state Division of Forestry spokesman Timber Weller said.
Weller said windy, dry conditions were challenging the [...]
Goalie Marty Turco believes a return to American Airlines Center for Game 3 of the Western Conference finals should be inspiring for the Stars.
Turco said the Stars, who trail the Detroit Red Wings, 2-0, in the best-of-7 series, look forward to soaking up the aura that’s left over from the four-overtime Game 6 victory that [...]
Angola’s Home Affairs minister, Roberto Leal Monteiro “Ngongo”, Saturday in Luanda called on chiefs of the Southern African Police to outline efficient mechanisms of fight against crime, aiming the stability of the region.
The Government official was speaking at the opening session of the third meeting of police officials of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs [...]
JUSTIN MARSHALL wants to quit his bumper contract with the Ospreys and return to his native New Zealand, according to reports in his homeland.
The scrum-half great negotiated an early release from the Welsh region in a bid to play in the Air New Zealand Cup for Canterbury from this August onwards.
Marshall also wants to play [...]
The Utah Jazz needed overtime while the San Antonio Spurs rolled to a rout Sunday as they squared both Western Conference series in the National Basketball Association playoffs.
Deron Williams scored 29 points with 14 assists for the Jazz, who blew a sizeable fourth-quarter lead but eked out the 123-115 overtime triumph over the Los Angeles [...]
Cannabis users could in future be automatically arrested and charged on their second offence, Jacqui Smith announced as she defied her own experts to tighten laws on possession of the drug.
The Home Secretary overrode the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to confirm that cannabis would be restored from a class C to [...]
In a murderous assault inside a reform home for juvenile offenders in the city, a 14-year-old boy died after he was beaten up by Home fellow inmates.
The boy, Mubarak Ali, had run away from his uncle’s house in Erisarampatti village near Pollachi last Friday. The police picked him up on “suspicion” while he was roaming [...]
Abousfian Abdelrazik, once labelled an al-Qaeda operative by Canada but now given “temporary safe haven” in the Khartoum embassy, filed a court action Wednesday in Ottawa seeking to force the government to fly him home from Sudan.
Mr. Abdelrazik wants the federal court to order the minister to bring him home, even if it means sending [...]
A woman lost control of her vehicle on Wednesday afternoon,accidentally reversing it through the front door of a Palo Alto home. None of the four young children in the car or its driver were injured in the incident.
Homeowner Kevin Guthrie said he heard a noise outside and was walking to look out the window when [...]
Greater Sacramento’s home values have declined 30 percent since the peak of the housing market in fourth-quarter 2005, according to a real estate Web site.
And almost 70 percent of families in the four-county region who bought their homes in 2006 have negative equity, one of the highest rates in the nation but far from the [...]