News Reports

A week after Hurricane Helene overwhelmed the Southeastern U.S., homeowners hit the hardest are grappling with how they could possibly pay for the flood damage from one of the deadliest storms to hit ... Read More

The new law directs the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to design additional specialty license plates, which include options for plates themed around places like Universal ... Read More

There is a road closure on West 17 Street between I-35 South and Beardsley Road. The impacted road section is 320 feet long. The warning was released on Friday at 8:31 p.m., and the most recent report ... Read More

State police at the Fern Ridge barracks reported the following crashes: ' No one was injured in a two-vehicle crash at 2:27 p.m. Sept. 10 at the intersection of Route 903 and a turnpike ramp in Penn ... Read More

The Iowa State patrol has not released the names of one person who was killed and two who were injured Thursday evening in rural Jackson County as the result of ... Read More

He said that he and his brother accidentally set fire ... in Ontario, near Lake Superior. The winters were cold. My dad was lonely. The school principal put him in a kindergarten class to learn ... Read More

Chiang Mai, Thailand's northern city popular with tourists, was inundated by widespread flooding Saturday as its main river overflowed its banks following heavy seasonal rainfall. Read More

Study says hurricanes are hundreds of times deadlier in the long run than the U.S. government calculates, contributing to more deaths than car accidents or all the nation's wars. Read More

Thirty-one people died and 417 were injured when a rush hour train collided almost head-on with a high speed train about two miles from Paddington station, shortly after 08:00 BST on 5 October 1999. It was one of the worst rail crashes of the last ce Read More

Relentless Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut's southern suburbs overnight and closed off the main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, forcing fleeing civilians to cross the border by foot. Read More

Less than 1% of households in the state's hardest-hit inland counties are protected by the National Flood Insurance Program. What to know. Read More

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has announced a series of resurfacing projects slated for several state highways in Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. These ... Read More

A 14-year-old Creston girl was killed and other teens were injured in a one-vehicle crash Friday in Wayne County. Read More

Two upcoming events in Longview aim to raise awareness of human trafficking - a disturbing crime that organizers say is being committed here in East Texas. Read More

The Iowa Department of Transportation this week rejected permit applications for most of the automated traffic enforcement cameras used to catch speeding around the state, but the rejected cameras can ... Read More

Iowa authorities say a truck driver admitted to drinking from a bottle of Fireball while driving on Interstate 80. Read More

Torstar Open Data Team The Torstar Open Data Team is a collaborative of editorial, data and technical staff who work with public open data sources to provide useful and actionable stories for readers. Read More

Most states don't require written tests for driver's license renewal, although vision tests for older drivers are common. Only one state, Illinois, requires a behind-the-wheel test for license renewal ... Read More

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) are launching a new public awareness campaign called '?Walk this Way'? during October, which is National ... Read More