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| Superstorm Sandy sends 13-foot surge of seawater into NYC Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:20 PM PDT  The storm slams into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds, hurling an unprecedented wall of water through the city. Full Story | Top |
| Mammoth storm Sandy plunges NYC into darkness Monday, Oct 29, 2012 08:06 PM PDT  Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. Full Story | Top |
| Photos: Sandy slams the East Coast Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:10 PM PDT Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo) Full Story | Top |
| Dangling crane swinging in storm winds Monday, Oct 29, 2012 06:13 PM PDT  New York City evacuated neighbors of a nearly completed, 90-story luxury apartment building on Monday after the top of a construction crane collapsed in high winds, prompting fears the crane's boom could crash to the ground. With the city bracing for massive storm Sandy, which made landfall in southern New Jersey later on Monday, the crane's upper arm dangled over the street near Central Park from what should eventually become the city's tallest residential building, where condominium units will start at $16.75 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| 19 workers trapped in New York power plant by storm, witness says Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:28 PM PDT Nineteen workers were trapped inside a Consolidated Edison power station on the east side of Manhattan Monday night by rising floodwaters that accompanied the surge from powerful storm Sandy, according to a Reuters witness. A rescue worker, who declined to be named, said the station had suffered an explosion inside. (Reporting by Brendan McDermid; Editing by Ken Wills) Full Story | Top |
| NYC mayor: Power out at NYU hospital, patients being evacuated Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:40 PM PDT New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says backup power has been lost at New York University hospital and the city is working to move people out. Full Story | Top |
| Meningitis outbreak spreads to 19 states with case in Rhode Island Monday, Oct 29, 2012 06:04 PM PDT  The deadly meningitis outbreak tied to steroid injections from potentially tainted medications spread to a 19th state on Monday with the first case reported in Rhode Island, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Only four of the 23 states that received some of the medication have not reported cases of fungal meningitis, which has killed 25 people nationwide. The four states that have not reported at least one case of meningitis are California, Nevada, West Virginia and Connecticut, the CDC said. ... Full Story | Top |
| 2 top executives leaving Apple Monday, Oct 29, 2012 05:54 PM PDT  Apple Inc. shook up its executive ranks Monday, saying the head of its store operations is leaving after just six months on the job and the long-serving head of its iPhone software development operations is exiting next year. Full Story | Top |
| Nation's oldest nuclear plant on alert Monday, Oct 29, 2012 08:36 PM PDT The nation's oldest nuclear power plant, already out of service for scheduled refueling, was put on alert late Monday after waters from Superstorm Sandy rose 6 feet above sea level. Full Story | Top |
| Skyscrapers and proximity to ocean create unique risks Monday, Oct 29, 2012 04:02 PM PDT  The high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy that are expected to lash New York City through Tuesday could bring damage to the city unlike that seen from any hurricane before. New York’s structures, especially high-rise buildings, could be extremely affected by the heavy... Full Story | Top |
| Planes grounded, 200 flights canceled at LAX Monday, Oct 29, 2012 05:26 PM PDT Some 200 flights have been canceled at Los Angeles International Airport as a looming superstorm locks down flights to the East Coast. Full Story | Top |
| Nevada town named state's 'most bearded community' Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:21 PM PDT  Virginia City has emerged as Nevada's "most bearded community" following a weekend contest. Full Story | Top |
| Hiker dies after bee attack in Phoenix-area canyon Monday, Oct 29, 2012 07:37 PM PDT A hiker died Monday after he was attacked by a swarm of bees and fell about 150 feet off a cliff at a popular recreation area in Phoenix, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Syrian regime launches nationwide airstrikes Monday, Oct 29, 2012 12:58 PM PDT  Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago. Full Story | Top |
| Team Obama tries to run Romney’s Jeep charge off the road Monday, Oct 29, 2012 04:40 PM PDT  ORLANDO, Florida--President Barack Obama's re-election team waged all-out political war on Monday against a controversial ad by Republican rival Mitt Romney. The ad implies, falsely, that Jeep plans to move jobs to China from Ohio--a charge that could resonate in that pivotal battleground state. The Obama campaign released a commercial rebutting the allegation, while Vice [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mother of Mo. Sen. McCaskill dies at age 84 Monday, Oct 29, 2012 04:32 PM PDT  Betty Anne Ward McCaskill, the mother of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and a political trailblazer in her own right, died Monday at her home in St. Louis after a long struggle with heart and kidney problems, the senator said. Full Story | Top |
| Police: 2 children dead in Ky. school bus crash Monday, Oct 29, 2012 05:33 PM PDT  A school bus overturned on a narrow country road in northern Kentucky Monday, killing two pre-school-aged children, state police said. Full Story | Top |
| Two missing Oregon teen hikers found Monday, Oct 29, 2012 12:59 PM PDT  The Oregon Army National Guard is helping Clackamas County rescuers in their search to find two West Linn teenagers who went missing on Saturday while on a hike in southeast Molalla, Ore. Jackson Chandler, 17, and 16-year-old Bradley Nelson went on a day hike in... Full Story | Top |
| Chicago surpasses 2011 total for homicides Monday, Oct 29, 2012 04:33 PM PDT With two months left in 2012, Chicago has surpassed the number of homicides it had for all of last year. Full Story | Top |
| Residents' stories: Sandy is windy, wet and loud Monday, Oct 29, 2012 09:08 PM PDT  From Florida to New England, residents along the eastern seaboard are sharing their anecdotes, photos and videos of Hurricane Sandy. Below are excerpts from the latest dispatches from [...] Full Story | Top |
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