New Orleans tornado kills one, injures 19
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One person was killed and at least 19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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Candra Pennington and other students scrambled to a bathroom as windows shattered and the ceiling collapsed when a tornado struck Jackson, Tennessee. "We were just shocked at what we saw," she said. In Memphis, a survivor said he's lucky to be alive: "I was thinking about my mom, and I was calling on Jesus."
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NEW ORLEANS A soldier with the Louisiana Army National Guard has been injured while on patrol in Iraq. A spokesman for the Guard says Specialist Craig Nelson of Bossier City was wounded yesterday by an explosive device planted in the roadway.
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At least 18 people are killed and many more injured in severe storms across the southern US.
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A winter storm brought near-blizzard conditions to much of the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, forcing schools to close and disrupting transportation across the region, while a deadly tornado ripped through New Orleans.
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A storm system that stretched nearly 1,000 miles from the Midwest to the Southeast has killed at least 20 people.
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A security guard at a FEMA trailer park was shot to death Monday in the latest violence to rack the city still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina, police said. The shooting, around 5:15 a.m., was at a trailer park in Gentilly, a section of the city that flooded during Katrina. A few hours earlier, another man was shot and killed near the Guste public housing complex.
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Powerful storms raked Arkansas, spawning a tornado with winds over 158 mph that killed two people and was a factor in a fatal small plane crash, authorities said Thursday.
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Disaster crews with dogs went from one pile of debris to another in a search for bodies Friday after powerful storms, including at least one tornado, smashed hundreds of homes across central Florida and killed 19 people or more.
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Displaced central Florida residents spent the night in shelters after a line of storms packing at least one tornado killed 19 people. A massive cleanup effort awaits them. Gov. Charlie Crist planned to tour the area Saturday with FEMA's director, assessing what one official called "complete devastation" of homes, businesses and churches.
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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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One people was killed and seven others were injured Saturday in a blast in Thailand&#39;s violence-plagued deep south, the fourth explosion within 24 hours, police said.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes swept across the Southern United States and killed at least 17 people across three states, ripping up a hospital and a high school, CNN and Fox News reported on Friday.
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By JIM ELLIS LADY LAKE, Fla. - Disaster crews with dogs went from one pile of debris to another in a search for bodies Friday after powerful storms, including at least one tornado, smashed hundreds of homes across central Florida and killed 19 people or more.
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At least 14 people are killed as tornadoes sweep through parts of the US state of Florida, officials say.
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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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More than a dozen tornadoes were reported last night and early today in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Officials are trying to confirm the tornado reports and assess the damage as the powerful storm front heads across the Plains toward the Southeast. The National Weather Service declared the storm's projected path a high-risk area, "which is a pretty rare forecast for us," one meteorologist said.