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• Superstorm Sandy loses its hurricane status
• Residents' stories: Sandy is windy, wet and loud
• Sandy unlikely to damage U.S. economy, analysts say
• Crane dangling from NYC high-rise
• Syrian regime launches nationwide airstrikes
• Mother of Mo. Sen. McCaskill dies at age 84
• Two missing Oregon teen hikers found
• Chicago surpasses 2011 total for homicides
• Woman arrested for speaking too long at city council meeting
• British man sues telemarketers for wasting his time
• Would Romney abolish FEMA? His campaign says no
• Guards at Tomb of the Unknowns to remain during storm
• Meningitis spreads to 19 states with first case in R.I.
• People named Sandy more likely to give to Obama
• Photos: SF cleaning up after rowdy Giants fans take to streets
• Sneaky cat caught on camera in Himalayas

Superstorm Sandy loses its hurricane status Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:09 PM PDT Forecasters say the storm is no longer a hurricane but is still a dangerous system taking dead aim at New Jersey and Delaware.

Residents' stories: Sandy is windy, wet and loud Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:32 PM PDT A view of a flooded street in New York on Monday. Click image to see more photos. (Photo courtesy of Nick Cope via Melissa Walker/Yahoo! Contributor Network) From Florida to New England, residents along the eastern seaboard are sharing their anecdotes, photos and videos of Hurricane Sandy. Below are excerpts from the latest dispatches from [...]

Sandy unlikely to damage U.S. economy, analysts say Posted: 29 Oct 2012 03:26 PM PDT Airlines have canceled thousands of flights, stranding travelers around the globe. Insurers are bracing for possible damages of $5 billion. Retailers face shrunken sales.

Crane dangling from NYC high-rise Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:49 PM PDT A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and dangled precariously as a huge storm bore down on the city on Monday.

Syrian regime launches nationwide airstrikes Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:58 PM PDT Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago.

Mother of Mo. Sen. McCaskill dies at age 84 Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:32 PM PDT Betty Anne Ward McCaskill, the mother of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and a political trailblazer in her own right, died Monday at her home in St. Louis after a long struggle with heart and kidney problems, the senator said.

Two missing Oregon teen hikers found Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:59 PM PDT The Oregon Army National Guard is helping Clackamas County rescuers in their search to find two West Linn teenagers who went missing on Saturday while on a hike in southeast Molalla, Ore. Jackson Chandler, 17, and 16-year-old Bradley Nelson went on a day hike in...

Chicago surpasses 2011 total for homicides Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:33 PM PDT With two months left in 2012, Chicago has surpassed the number of homicides it had for all of last year.

Woman arrested for speaking too long at city council meeting Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:06 PM PDT A 60-year-old woman was arrested after exceeding her allotted three minutes of speaking time at a California city council meeting. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Karen Wright's arrested was caught on video, when she was handcuffed by police and cited for disrupting a public meeting during a Riverside City Council meeting. "Can you see my [...]

British man sues telemarketers for wasting his time Posted: 29 Oct 2012 03:52 PM PDT Fed up with  calls from telemarketers, Richard Herman of the U.K. issued an ultimatum: Call again and he would start charging 10 pounds (about $16) per minute for his time. Herman's warning went unheeded. He continued to receive calls, despite being on the U.K.'s Telephone Preference Service (similar to the Do Not Call list). So [...]

Would Romney abolish FEMA? His campaign says no Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:23 PM PDT His campaign is pushing back against suggestions that he wants to abolish the agency, insisting that he would simply prefer to see states take a greater role in disaster relief.

Guards at Tomb of the Unknowns to remain during storm Posted: 29 Oct 2012 09:51 AM PDT The U.S. servicemen who guard the outdoor Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery will remain on duty.

Meningitis spreads to 19 states with first case in R.I. Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:18 PM PDT (Reuters) - The deadly meningitis outbreak tied to steroid injections from potentially tainted medications spread to a 19th state on Monday with the first case reported in Rhode Island, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Only four of the 23 states that received some of the medication have not reported cases of fungal meningitis, which has killed 25 people nationwide. The four states that have not reported at least one case of meningitis are California, Nevada, West Virginia and Connecticut, the CDC said. ...

People named Sandy more likely to give to Obama Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:03 PM PDT Is the National Hurricane Center secretly a puppet of the Obama administration? People named Sandy are considerably more likely to have donated to President Obama than to Mitt Romney or another Republican primary candidate this year, according to a recent Yahoo News analysis of FEC records. Of the 353 Sandys who gave at least $200 this cycle, [...]

Photos: SF cleaning up after rowdy Giants fans take to streets Posted: 28 Oct 2012 11:26 PM PDT San Francisco Giants fan David Zweig celebrates outside PacBell Park on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in San Francisco after the Giants swept baseball's World Series against the Detroit Tigers. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Sneaky cat caught on camera in Himalayas Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:20 AM PDT An elusive thick-furred feline has been caught on camera for the first time in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

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