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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite passed over Anja on November 15 at 0904 UTC.

Gallery: KwaZulu-Natal battered by heavy rains By Bronwyn Gerretsen and Kamini Padayachee Seven people died in strong winds and heavy rain that lashed KwaZulu-Natal yesterday.

Alida and Tom Duggan are fighting contractors, their insurance company and the bank in a struggle to rebuild their home in Bayou Vista, destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

We finally got some decent, steady rain Thursday night over into Friday morning, but the precipitation should be out of here by 9 a.m., at the latest.

Hotwire.com , a leading discount travel site, today announced the results of the November 2009 Hotwire Hotel Rate Report.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:10 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:10 p.m. HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Under the Dome" by Stephen King 2. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown 3. "Ford County: Stories" by John Grisham 4. "The Gathering Storm " by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson 5. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett 6. "True Blue" ...

Another strong Pacific storm has brought high winds to the Washington coast and northwest interior of the state, with accompanying power outages.

A strong storm moving through Friday into Saturday could drop more than a foot of snow at the highest elevations of the Sierra.

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the "slippery slope": once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims.

The National Weather Service says another strong Pacific storm will hit Washington Wednesday night and Thursday.

MANILA: The United Nations on Wednesday nearly doubled its appeal for funds to help the Philippines cope with the effects of back-to-back storms that left over 1,100 people dead and 1.7 million homeless.

A federal review has found the city of New Orleans and its main redevelopment agency could not prove $11.6 million was properly spent on property and other work over the past five years, and it considers another $38 million for post-Hurricane Katrina work at risk.

Associated Press A November 17, 2009 A SEASIDE, Ore. -- Oregon coastal communities spent Tuesday trying to get things back to normal after a powerful November storm slammed the area with high winds and heavy rain.

A state official says remnants from a hurricane last fall and a massive ice storm earlier this year caused more than $1.2 billion in damages in Kentucky.

Texas has 45 days to rework its plan to spend the second round of $1.7 billion in Hurricane Ike federal recovery funds.

Today...Becoming mostly cloudy from around I-94 to the south with chance of light rain this afternoon near the Wisconsin/Illinois border.

Oil prices wavered on Tuesday as a rising dollar kept crude from moving higher, as fresh economic data gave mixed signals on whether demand for oil will increase.

Fifteen months ago, Paul Ray and Donna Heinrich had a view of the water from the porch of their house in Gilchrist.

Strong winds and heavy rain pounded the Oregon coast as a powerful November storm blew through.