CHICO, Calif.— Patty Rough lost her Paradise home and most of her belongings in the Camp Fire, and she had no place to cook a family meal on Thanksgiving. But she and her husband are safe, and she was still able to spend the holiday with her children over plates of turkey, cranberry sauce and … Continue reading CHICO, Calif. | Fire evacuees do their best on a sad Thanksgiving
CHICO, Calif.— Amy Sheppard packs her belongings into a plastic garbage bag as rain drips around her, readying to move on from a field by a Walmart where thousands of evacuees had taken refuge from a deadly Northern California wildfire. Sheppard, 38, her sister and niece, who is 1, are looking to move into a … Continue reading CHICO, Calif. | Northern California rain hampers life for wildfire survivors
BERLIN — German authorities said Tuesday they suspect a male nurse of killing six elderly patients, and attempting to kill at least three more, after he admitted to injecting them with diabetes medication. Munich police said the 36-year-old Polish man has acknowledged injecting 12 people in his care with unnecessary insulin shots from April 2017 … Continue reading BERLIN | Germany: Male nurse suspected of killing 6 elderly patients
JAKARTA, Indonesia— The Latest on the crash of a Lion Air passenger plane in Indonesia (all times local): 7:50 p.m. The head of Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency says the search for a crashed Lion Air plane has sighted aircraft debris and passenger belongings on the seafloor but the object thought to be the fuselage … Continue reading Indonesia | The Latest: Searchers find debris, belongings on seafloor
PORT ST. JOE, Fla.— The piano was washed into a ditch across the street. The dining room table became lodged against a neighbor’s tree. And the storm surge that gutted Rex and Nancy Buzzett’s home of 44 years scattered their other belongings as far as two blocks. “It busted through the windows, and once it … Continue reading PORT ST. JOE, Fla. | Neighboring Gulf towns see different sides of storm’s fury
PALU, Indonesia — Home to hundreds of families, the Balaroa section of Indonesia’s Palu city was once a patchwork of asphalted streets and tidy houses dominated by a golden domed mosque. Now it looks as if it was picked up and thrown back to earth with vicious force. Four days after a powerful earthquake and … Continue reading PALU, Indonesia | Aid lags, residents fume in decimated Indonesia neighborhood
