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Tornadoes Touch Down in Brooklyn and Queens – NYTimes.com

A tornado ripped through a beach club in Queens on Saturday, one of several outbursts of severe weather across the New York region that flooded roads, felled power lines and forced the delay of the …

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Deadly Tornadoes Pound the South and the Midwest – NYTimes.com

Residents across the South and Midwest searched for survivors on Saturday after a string of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms churned through, leaving at least …

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One Casualty of Northeaster – ‘Trick or Treat!’ – NYTimes.com

For all the attention it got for timing (early) and snow accumulation (astonishing) and — if there were a way to measure this — annoyance and aggravation, the freakish northeaster of October may well be remembered as the Grinch that stole Halloween.

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Early Snow Pelts East Coast, Cuts Power to 2.7 Million – WSJ.com

At least 10 people died over the weekend when a rare October storm roared up the Eastern seaboard, cutting power to more than two million homes, disrupting roads and railways and dumping as much as 30 inches of snow in some places.

In Connecticut, the state hit hardest by outages, officials reported more than …

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Storm Leaves More Than 2 Million Without Power – NYTimes.com

Millions of people across the Northeast found themselves without power on Sunday after an unusual autumn storm dumped record …

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Sugarland Concert Ends in Tragedy: Video

Catastrophe struck the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, where a 60mph gust of wind brought down the concert stage where the country music duo Sugarland was about to appear.

With the stage coverings acting as an enormous sail, the lighting grid and supporting scaffolding collapsed under the wind’s force, killing at least …

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Casey Anthony released from jail: Casey Anthony was released from jail early Sunday – latimes.com

Less than an hour after Casey Anthony was released from the Orange County Jail, it is entirely unclear where she is and where she’s headed.

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NYC boy spent hours with suspect before murder – CBS News

A Brooklyn man reportedly told police that he spent more than 12 hours with a young Orthodox Jewish boy — including taking him to a wedding just outside New York City — before smothering and dismembering him in a panic.

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Grizzly bear kills hiker in Yellowstone National Park – latimes.com

A hiker in Yellowstone National Park was killed by a grizzly bear Wednesday morning after he and his wife surprised a sow and her cubs on a popular trail.

The unidentified couple were about a mile and a half from the trailhead of the Wapiti Lake trail when they encountered the sow and her cubs. The bear, apparently reacting to the …

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Obama vows national response to Missouri tornado | Reuters

President Barack Obama promised victims of the deadliest U.S. tornado in 65 years that the federal government would help them rebuild, saying on Sunday it was a national tragedy.

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Obama Visits Joplin and Offers Words of Comfort – NYTimes.com

A week ago the Missouri Southern State University campus here was rich with celebration and smiles as the graduating seniors of the public high school paraded across stage to …

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Missouri storm’s new death toll makes 2011 deadliest year for tornadoes since 1950s – The Washington Post

The numbers look increasingly bleak for families hoping for the best after a monster tornado devastated this southwestern Missouri city last Sunday. The city has raised the death toll to at least…

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