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• Roads slowly reopen in storm-hit Washington
More than 30,000 people in western Washington were urged to evacuate their homes on Wednesday in low-lying areas from Bellingham near the Canadian border to the Kelso area near the Oregon line as rivers spilled over their banks and flooded some ...
• Is Florida the Team of the Decade?
Yet under 25 percent of voters found merit in the work the Utes put in while dominating an Alabama team that won all of its SEC games on the way to the Western Division crown and was 15 minutes away from playing for the BCS national title, coming ...
• Heavy rain could flood rivers
SEATTLE - Forecasters say a Pacific storm has aimed a river of moisture at Washington - and that could spell potential river flooding later this week. "A band of moisture stretching from just north of Hawaii will shift over Western Washington later ...
• U.N., Red Cross curtail Gaza aid shipments
But the changes in the Arab text didn't meet all the demands of the United States and its key Western allies, Britain and France, all veto-wielding members of the council. Those nations countered by putting aside a weaker "presidential statement ...
• Cowboy churches rope in new Christians
Some have Western-theme sanctuaries; others meet in barns or on rodeo grounds, some on weeknights. A few months ago the Cowboy Church of Mobile, Alabama, started meeting at a nightclub called The Whiskey on one Sunday each month — when the bar is ...