The largest nursing home in St. Louis closed so abruptly last week, according to the union representing workers there, that 170 people living there were moved to new homes without notifying relatives and staff did not receive their last paycheck. The Missouri Health and Senior Services Department said in a statement to The Associated Press…
A dozen hilltop homes in one of the most affluent areas of coastal Los Angeles County were collapsing into a canyon on Monday after a landslide over the weekend forced the evacuation of a neighborhood in the community of Rolling Hills Estates. Local officials said that about 16 people were evacuated late Saturday after fire…
Firefighters in southwestern Washington were working on Tuesday to extinguish a wildfire that has engulfed more than 500 acres since it broke out on Sunday. Local fire crews first responded to reports of a wildfire at 11:19 a.m. Sunday morning near Underwood, a small town in Skamania County near the state’s border with Oregon. Hot,…
A storm that passed over Virginia Beach on Sunday evening brought one confirmed tornado and damaged an estimated 50 to 100 homes, the authorities said. Patrick Duhaney, the city manager, declared a state of emergency on Sunday night as the coastal municipality sought to provide refuge to people whose homes were damaged and prepared to…
Four people were found dead early Thursday morning at two homes that were on fire in Laurel, Neb., and foul play is suspected, the authorities said. Just after 3 a.m. Thursday, the authorities in the city of about 1,000 people, northwest of Omaha, received a call about an explosion in the 200 block of Elm…