Lightning Held in Check
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Matt Bradley scores the tiebreaking goal with 2:53 left, and the Capitals end a three-game skid by beating the Lightning, 3-2.
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How our lives ground to a halt when a storm knocked out power.
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By Courtney Sherwood  Columbian staff writer  Lightning sparks a drought-fueled wildfire. Water bursts through a remote dike. Rumbling deep below the ground portends a coming earthquake.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA managers kept close tabs on the weather Thursday as thunderstorms and low clouds threatened to prevent space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts from landing after a trip to the international space station.
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On a cold December night in Denver, a storm was brewing. The sky was clear, the stars visible to most even through the haze of the downtown lamp lights. But on the sidewalks, on the TV, and on the static of talk radio you knew a battle was about to be waged.
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Play was suspended because of the threat of lightning at the Tour Championship on Thursday with Tiger Woods yet to complete the par-four first hole.
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Mother Nature has her lightning, and she used it to delay the Division 1 North softball semifinal between Acton-Boxboro and Beverly for about 30 minutes last night at Martin Park.
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Cristobal Huet made 41 saves and Saku Koivu scored twice in the third period as the Montreal Canadiens came back for a 4-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
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Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Shenyang, 18 Feb (Xinhua) - When the evening lights were lit, there was a rich display of lights and colours.
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Storm clouds, filled with politically charged lightning, are rumbling over the federal government these days.
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SEATTLE -- Small earthquakes at the rate of one or two a minute yesterday had seismologists keeping a close watch on Mount St. Helens.
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By Darin Fenger, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Sep. 11--Eleven fire departments continued to battle a stubborn blaze near Bard, Calif., on Sunday evening, pitting humans and water against a fire that had been burning since some time Friday.
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Thirty-three Finnish soldiers were injured by lightning during a night exercise in western Finland, military officials said Friday.'A sudden thunderstorm came over the area and lightning struck in two places,' said Lt. Col. Jukka Orava.Three soldiers who were seriously injured were being treated at a hospital, Orava said. He did not describe their injuries but said their condition was stable. Eight others were to be released later Friday.Twenty-two soldiers were only slightly injured with suspected hearing damage, Orava said. They were examined by military medical staff at a field hospital. Read more
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By SETH BORENSTEIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space-bound electricians lit up the skies on their way to make a cosmic nighttime house call.
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Nevada continued to endure lightning-sparked wildfires on Wednesday, but an approaching rainstorm &amp;#151; complete with a flood watch &amp;#151; held the potential to douse some of the flames.
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TAMPA -- Perhaps it would be foolish to consider last night's match against the Tampa Bay Lightning a must-win game.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Air and ship crews were keeping an eye on an oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland Monday as containment crews waited out stormy weather to take action.