Washington – President Barack Obama will travel to New Jersey on Sunday to survey damage from Hurricane Irene. The White House says Obama will visit the northern New Jersey town of Paterson, where flooding continues to cause problems as the state’s rain-swollen rivers crest and slowly recede. Hurricane Irene barreled up the East Coast over the weekend, [...]

Algiers – Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s wife and other relatives fled to Algeria Monday, the Algerian foreign ministry said. The Algerian government said Gadhafi’s wife, daughter, two of his sons and their children entered the neighboring country on Monday. It did not say whether Gadhafi himself was with the family. It said the U.N. secretary-general and [...]

New York – The New York State Thruway northbound between Exits 7 (Ardsley) and 20 (Saugerties), and southbound between Exits 24 (Albany) and 12 (West Nyack) is closed due to flooding. The Tappan Zee Bridge continues to be closed due to flooding on the Thruway. The Hudson River bridges north of the Tappan Zee Bridge remain [...]

Tripoli, Libya – Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and likely to take secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 to his grave. CNN found al-Megrahi under the care of his family in his palatial Tripoli villa Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip. The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer [...]

Netanya – At least 22 people were lightly wounded on Sunday after a bulldozer crashed into the side of a bus in the middle of a Netanya road. Magen David Adom teams are caring for the wounded at the scene; they will be transferred to the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba nad Laniado Medical [...]

East Coast, U.S. – Forecasters say Irene, still barely a hurricane now with top sustained winds of 75-mph (120-kph) winds, is crawling alongside the New Jersey coast and nearing New York City. The National Hurricane Center said at 5 a.m. EDT that the huge storm was 115 miles (190 kilometers) south-southwest of New York and [...]

New York, NY – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the edge of Hurricane Irene is reaching the city and it’s no longer safe to be outside. The mayor said late Saturday night that the weather was getting treacherous and anyone in the evacuation area should stay put. The city ordered about 370,000 residents of low-lying [...]

New York, NY – Alternate Side Parking Regulations & meter rules are suspended citywide Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 and Monday, Aug. 29, 2011 to facilitate storm response.

West Palm Beach, FL – Authorities say the rough ocean churned up by the outer bands of Hurricane Irene have caused at least eight injuries and a near drowning in South Florida. Palm Beach County officials say eight people were out on a jetty off Boynton Beach Inlet when a wave knocked them over. They say [...]

New York -Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today declared a state of emergency in New York in preparation for the potential impact of Hurricane Irene, which may hit New York State this coming weekend. A state of emergency enables New York to use state resources to assist local governments more effectively and quickly, allows the state [...]