Florida Storms Kill 18 Whooping Cranes Led South By Planes
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All 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida, a spokesman said.
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Hurricane Jeanne swept across southeastern US state of Florida Sunday, killing at least three and knocking off power to more than 1.5 million people at a state that has
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Severe thunderstorms and at  least one tornado killed 19 people on Friday when they ripped  through Florida in the dead of night, tearing homes to shreds,  toppling heavy trucks and leaving a trail of rubble.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - The death toll from Hurricane Charley&#39;s destructive rampage in Florida has risen to 20, and more than 439,000 remain without power in the state, government officials said on Wednesday.
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By James A. Carlson  MILWAUKEE - All 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida, a spokesman said.
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By CARRIE ANTLFINGER MILWAUKEE - A whooping crane was spotted alive on Sunday after it was believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms, according to an organizer of a migratory project.
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A powerful cyclone lashed Pakistan&#39;s southern coast on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, leaving dozens more missing and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, officials said.
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Pulling blue tarps over the houses that still had walls, neighbors, jail inmates and National Guard troops picked up amid rain showers Saturday from dead-of-night thunderstorms that chewed through the middle of Florida, killing at least 20 people.
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Hurricane Ivan drilled the Gulf Coast on Thursday with 130-mph winds that inflicted far less damage than feared everywhere except Florida's Panhandle, where residents were left with surge-ravaged beachfronts, flooded streets and homes ripped apart by deadly tornadoes. The storm was blamed for at least 20 U.S. deaths, most of them in Florida.
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Nineteen people were killed on Friday when severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado splintered homes and left a trail of devastation through central Florida, an emergency center spokesman said.
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MILWAUKEE - A whooping crane believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms may be alive, because a signal transmitting from the bird indicates it survived, an official said Sunday.
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By The Associated Press  MILWAUKEE - A whooping crane was spotted alive on Sunday after it was believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms, according to an organizer of a migratory project.
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At least 19 persons were killed by tornadoes and electrical storms that hit central Florida, the spokesman for Lake County told AFP, as crews searched the area for more victims.
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Fourteen people died after tornadoes ripped through hundreds of homes in central Florida on Friday, a spokesman for the Lake County emergency operations center said.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least eight people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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The hurricane's brutish winds conspired with the Gulf of Mexico to drown mile-wide stretches of resort towns and spinning off deadly tornadoes before moving inland Thursday.
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By ANNYSA JOHNSON  It is a stirring sight that has awed Wisconsinites for six years now: an ultralight aircraft aloft in the fading sunlight, leading endangered whooping cranes from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge on their maiden migration south.