September 3, 2010
Hurricane Earl has weakened to a Category 1 storm as it heads for the Northeast and some watches and warnings have been reduced or dropped from Long Island to Maine. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday that a hurricane warning for the southeast coast of Massachusetts was reduced in...
September 1, 2010
Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend. Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring...
August 31, 2010
Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines. Earl is forecast to potentially brush the U.S. East Coast late Thursda...
August 27, 2010
President Barack Obama is following up a morning bike ride on Martha's Vineyard with an afternoon round of golf. Under brilliant New England skies Friday, the president headed back to the Vineyard Golf Club. The outing marked his fifth round off golf during his 10-day vacation. Earlier Friday,...
August 27, 2010
Hurricane Danielle became a Category 4 storm early Friday far out over the Atlantic as it headed in Bermuda's direction and threatened to bring dangerous rip currents to the U.S. East Coast. Danielle's maximum sustained winds were near 135 mph (215 kph) with some slight strengthening possible. ...
August 27, 2010
Pay-as-you-drive car insurance cuts fuel use, saves money and cuts pollution. Pay-as-you-drive insurance links premiums to the number of miles you drive. What if your car insurance rates were tied to the number of miles (or hours) you drove, so the less you drive, the less you pay? That is wha...