MIAMI (AP) — Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph, as it swirls in the Caribbean.

MIAMI (AP) — Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph, as it swirls in the Caribbean.

FILAS DE MARICHES, Venezuela (AP) — While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years,...

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices tumbled Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983.

Benchmark crude for December...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading...

NEW YORK (AP) — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange:

NYSE:

American International Group...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says $150 million in federal funds will be made available for the purchase of 1,352 homes damaged in last year's floods.

The funding is...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on — for three...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Hurricane Ida swept onto Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rising unemployment, swine flu and the threat of health care reform all ganged up on managed care companies in the third quarter and could hurt their performance...

SEATTLE (AP) — Hurried repairs at a badly weakened flood-control reservoir have greatly reduced but far from eliminated the risk of...

MIAMI (AP) — Ida weakens slightly, becomes a tropical storm with 65 mph winds as it dumps rain on Nicaragua.

MIAMI (AP) — Ida weakens slightly, becomes a tropical storm with 65 mph winds as it dumps rain on Nicaragua.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops...

AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — The dangerous Green River lost its sting in the early 1960s when a dam ended floods that frequently swamped its...

DALLAS (AP) — Texas A&M University's tentlike athletic complex wasn't built to withstand the maximum winds prescribed by the building code, according to an engineering firm hired by the...

MIAMI (AP) — National Weather Service: Ida has reached hurricane force as it nears the coast of Nicaragua.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Tropical Storm Ida uprooted trees, knocked down power lines and forced the evacuation of 300 people on Nicaragua's Corn Island after forming Wednesday and quickly...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 99 in central Vietnam on Thursday and authorities estimated damage from the storm...

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — Floods have killed at least three people in a Mexican Gulf coast state where authorities are struggling to persuade thousands of people to leave their inundated...

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane watch for Nicaragua coast; Tropical Storm Ida strengthens, may make land Thursday .