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A small-business owner trying to save his shop, a policeman determined to make it to work, an elderly couple and four great-grandchildren trapped in a van: The high waters in Houston have been fatal.

Alaska's former governor had alleged an editorial maliciously linked her to a 2011 mass shooting. But a federal judge said her evidence was "so weak" the case shouldn't proceed.

It was a mystery: How did farmers in Uganda contract a nightmare illness? A researcher found the answer. What's the best way to help them?

Schrader wrote the screenplays for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ, and wrote and directed Blue Collar. He spoke in 1988 about his religious upbringing and his work in film.

School was supposed to begin this week in Houston, but Harvey's devastating flooding has made that impossible. Here's how the school district is coping and working to move forward.

In the past few days, Southeast Texas' catastrophic medical operations center has faced challenges like it has never seen before in keeping the health care system functioning.

Congress is widely expected to approve billions in aid for flood-stricken areas, but it may take awhile to arrive.

Commercial fishermen are putting off their own livelihoods to catch the farmed Atlantic salmon that broke out of their net pen in Washington state. One fisherman describes the "carnival atmosphere."

The index measures wind speed like the traditional scale, one of its developers says, but also "the size of the storm and how fast it's moving forward."

Many of the tens of thousands of evacuees in the Houston area are lower income. They can't easily afford to miss work for long periods or pay for a motel for weeks on end.