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NEW ORLEANS — Rescue workers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters and utility crews mobilized Monday, Aug.

Updated 4 p.m. Central time (originally posted 1:44 p.m. Central time). NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday, August 27, as a rapidly

BOSTON — Plans to replace the Sagamore and Bourne bridges connecting Cape Cod to the rest of Massachusetts will go forward even as Congress works

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Fremont Bridge in Portland was closed for at least an hour Sunday, Aug. 22, as more than 100 people arrived at

POINT EDWARD, Ontario, Canada — Charges have been filed against the driver of a commercial truck following the seizure of 183 pounds of suspected cocaine

WESTLAKE, Ohio — TravelCenters of America Inc. (TA) is now serving drivers along Interstate 35 in Kansas, thanks to the opening of a new TA

BOSTON — New Englanders bracing for their first direct hit by a hurricane in 30 years began hauling boats out of the water and taking

OKLAHOMA CITY — Love’s Travel Stops is now serving customers in Monroe, Louisiana, and Elk Grove Village, Illinois, thanks to two travel stops that opened

MIAMI and BOSTON — On the 30th anniversary of the last hurricane to make a direct hit on New England, the region warily braced Thursday,

PHARR, Texas — Offers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) office of field operations at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility found $2,007,700

RALEIGH, N.C. — Tropical Depression Fred blew into the northeastern U.S. Wednesday, Aug. 18, unleashing heavy rains and threatening to cause mudslides and flash floods

PHOENIX — A stretch of U.S. 60 between Superior, Arizona, and Miami, Arizona, has reopened to traffic, but officials recommend using an alternative route, if

LAKE COUNTY, Ind. — A used-car salesman got more than he bargained for when a test drive turned into a kidnapping that culminated in a