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Authorities are saying that a tornado whipped through the coastal town of Lincoln City Friday night around 9 p.m. The severe weather tore roofs off vacation cottages and shattered windows on at least one parked car.

Food prices will decline after the rabi crop as production of wheat, rice, pulses, oil seeds and sugarcane during the winter is expected to be higher than in the drought-hit kharif season, union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said Saturday.

New South Wales emergency service workers are bracing for a long day today, following heavy rain on the mid north coast that has forced residents to evacuate their homes.

Nov. 7 - A natural disaster has been declared in parts of Australia's east coast as torrential rains cut main roads and leave thousands of people stranded.

Every two weeks, Naisi Obando and her children join the crowd at the water truck when it rumbles up a dusty road into their shantytown.

A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday.

The National Weather Service says cool air following the front that blew through the Northwest will bring weekend snow to the Olympics, Cascades and northeast mountains in Washington.

FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 4, 2009, dying crops and weeds stand in a flooded field near... FILE - In this file photo taken Aug.

Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. Ida had winds of 75 mph when it hit the central Nicraguan coast on Thursday, but it quickly lost force as it slogged inland and winds were down to about 35 mph Friday morning, ...

With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make commitments that are not legally binding.

The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on -- for three nights and two days.

Thu Nov 5, 2009 5:51pm EST - A man wears a protective mask as he takes the escalator in a subway in Kiev November 5, 2009.

Nov 5 - Large numbers of kangaroos invade a drought-striken Australian town under nightfall in search of food and water.

There's a chance of showers today, mainly after noon, according to the National Weather Service.

The rain showers expected to move in later today will likely turn into snow tonight, according to the National Weather Service.

Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops ever.

North Mason Web Search powered by YAHOO! Most Recent Local News Winds, Rains Heading for Washington Associated Press Originally published 10:48 a.m., November 4, 2009 Updated 10:48 a.m., November 4, 2009 SEATTLE - The National Weather Service says a storm will blow into Western Washington on Thursday with gusty winds and rains that will fill rivers ...

Tropical storm Ida was gaining strength in the southwest Caribbean, prompting a hurricane watch for the eastern coast of Nicaragua and storm warnings for two Colombian islands.

The Hartford Financial Services Group on Tuesday posted a much narrower loss for the third quarter, as its investment losses shrank as financial markets improved.

Climate change is set to make insurance more expensive and harder to obtain, experts have warned.