Before and after satellite images are capturing the extent of the damage Hurricane Laura has inflicted on in the Louisiana city of Lake Charles.Laura, which is now a Tropical Depression, made landfall overnight Wednesday as a Category 4 Hurricane. In Lake Charles, a wind gust with a speed of 133 mph was recorded.“The last 24 hours have felt like a…
Hurricane Laura toppled a Confederate monument in Lake Charles, La., — just two weeks after local officials voted to keep it in place.As the storm made landfall with 150 mph winds early Thursday morning, it ripped through buildings, vehicles, trees and power lines.LAURA'S WINDS LEAVE DESTRUCTION IN LOUISIANA, TEXAS AS WEAKENED STORM MOVES INLANDIt also knocked the…
2m ago Texas governor to hold press conference in Orange Texas Governor Greg Abbott is visiting the city of Orange on Thursday to survey damage in Hurricane Laura's wake.He plans to meet with local officials and give an update on response and recovery efforts in a press conference at 12:30 p.m. local time (1:30…
Hurricane Laura slammed southern Louisiana early Thursday as a Category 4 storm, one of the most powerful to strike the Gulf Coast in decades. The storm made landfall at 1 a.m. near Cameron, La., about 35 miles east of the Texas border.Images from downtown Lake Charles, La., showed flying debris and buildings with their windows…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…