Dominican Storm Kills at Least 20
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Tropical Storm Noel lashed the Dominican Republic with heavy rains, causing flooding and mudslides that killed at least 20 people and left another 20 missing, officials said.
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Tokyo, Sept. 30 (NNN): At least 24 people have been killed or are missing after a powerful tropical storm struck south-western Japan.
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LAS TERRENAS, Dominican Republic - Tropical Storm Jeanne hovered near hurricane strength as it plowed through the northeastern Dominican Republic on Thursday, prompting thousands to flee their homes following a direct hit on Puerto Rico that flooded hundreds of homes and killed two people.    Jeanne was forecast to regain hurricane strength and appeared headed for the Bahamas - devastated earlier this month by Hurricane Frances - and then possibly toward the southeast United States, anywhere from Florida to the Carolinas...
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Ivan strengthened to a Category 5  hurricane, sweeping toward Jamaica on Thursday after killing at  least 20 people in the tiny spice island of Grenada.
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Hurricane Ivan killed at least 20 people  as it laid waste to the tiny spice island of Grenada, officials  said on Wednesday as the storm swept through the Caribbean  heading west.
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At least nine people were killed as Tropical Storm Noel lashed the Caribbean island of Hispaniola shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, officials said on Monday.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - The death toll from Hurricane  Charley'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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At least a dozen people died and many more were reported missing in the Dominican Republic on Monday after Tropical Storm Noel dumped torrential rain on the island of Hispaniola, cutting off communities and grounding flights.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic  - Hurricane  Jeanne brought heavy rain and winds to the Dominican Republic  on Thursday after killing two people in Puerto Rico, as the  latest in a steady stream of Atlantic storms crossed the  Caribbean toward the United States.
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SAMANA, Dominican Republic - Hurricane Jeanne plowed into the Dominican Republic Thursday, killing a baby and forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. The storm unleashed floods and left two dead a day earlier in Puerto Rico...
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SAMANA, Dominican Republic -- Jeanne grew into the sixth hurricane of the season and swept across the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic yesterday, a day after pounding Puerto Rico with heavy winds and drenching rain that left millions without power, turned roads into rivers and killed two people.
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Two people were killed, nine injured and one went missing as hurricane Jeanne slammed the Dominican Republic on Thursday, according to reports reaching here.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - At least 20 people were killed by an explosion on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, witnesses said.
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Dominican authorities reported 11 more deaths Thursday in floods caused by Tropical Storm Olga, raising the Caribbean-wide death toll to 25.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Jamaicans rushed to  supermarkets and schools closed as Hurricane Ivan swept toward  the Caribbean island with 160-mph winds on Thursday after  killing at least 20 people on the tiny spice island of Grenada.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 29 people in Haiti after battering the neighboring Dominican Republic with its lashing winds and deadly storm surge before it pushed off into the open sea on Sunday, officials said.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Jeanne strengthened from a tropical storm into the sixth hurricane of the season and struck the evacuated eastern tip of the Dominican Republic on Thursday, a day after lashing Puerto Rico with damaging winds and rain that knocked out power, flooded roads and killed two people.    A hurricane warning was posted for the eastern and northern coasts of the Dominican Republic, as forecasters told the storm-weary Caribbean to monitor the progress of Jeanne, which had 80 mph winds with higher gusts...