27 Die as Storms Rip the South
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Deadly tornadoes tear across four Southern states in a deadly spasm of rare violent winter weather.
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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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Communities across the  U.S. South grieved for the dead and tried to pick up their  lives on Thursday after the deadliest round of tornadoes in  nearly a quarter century killed 57 people.
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Storms that raked the Plains and Southeast on Thursday tossed a mobile home in Missouri, killing both people inside, and spawned a tornado in Florida that sent mall shoppers and children at a day-care center running for cover.
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NEWTON, Ga.  -- A powerful storm system packing tornadoes that killed at least seven people in Alabama and one other in Missouri is being blamed for nine more deaths in Georgia, a state official said early Friday.
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High winds, heavy rain and tornadoes pounded parts of the Midwest and the South, leaving at least eight people dead, stranding people in cars, forcing others from their homes and leaving thousands without power.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least 11 people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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Hurricane Ivan carved a path of destruction through the Southeast with winds reaching 130 miles an hour.
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Tornadoes plowed across the South from Texas to Alabama on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing four people, wrecking homes and businesses in rural areas and the suburbs of New Orleans, and turning trees to kindling.
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Perdido Beach, Fla. -- Ivan, the deadliest American hurricane since Floyd in 1999, carved its slow, wet, brutal signature on the Southeast Friday, dropping heavy rain and causing floods from northern Alabama to Virginia&#39;s Appalachian Mountains.
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A string of deadly tornadoes have struck the southern United States, with reports Friday of at least 16 dead, including five children killed when the roof of their school collapsed.
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: A powerful tropical storm battered southern Japan on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 38 as it whipped up waves and winds that damaged homes, downed
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Severe storms swept through the South on Tuesday, producing hail and damaging winds from Louisiana to Florida and spawning a possible tornado near Kennedy Space Center.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - The storm that was hurricane Ivan extended its deadly march across the South today, destroying homes, swamping streets and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas.
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Heavy rain from the remnants of Jeanne flooded low-lying areas, uprooted trees and loosened the earth at a cemetery in south Georgia, washing coffins from the ground. Two deaths were blamed on the storm in South Carolina.
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Tornadoes swept across the southern United States and killed at least 20 people in three states, ripping up a hospital and high school where students huddled for shelter, authorities said on Friday.
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Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 26 people and left 17 missing in southwest China's Sichuan province in the last week, state media reported Sunday.