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Houston cleanup has little crime and lots of helping hands
HOUSTON (AP) — After riding out Hurricane Harvey in a motel and waiting an agonizing week for the waist-high waters to recede, 71-year-old Bob Janak returned to his wrecked home for the first time to find it swarming with people. They weren't thieves...
'I survived': How 1 woman lived Harvey on social media
HOUSTON (AP) — Katlyn Perkins' first announcement that something was very wrong at her home in northeast Houston came at 8:19 p.m. on Aug. 24, when she updated her Facebook status. "I'm scared." Like many 20-year-olds, Perkins lives out her life on s...
Grim reality in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey: More dead
HOUSTON (AP) — Now that the sun is finally shining and the murky, brown floodwaters are slowly receding in much of the Houston area, grim reality is setting in. Harvey is about to release its dead. In Texas, the official death toll stood at 23 on W...
Monkey troupe vexes Florida park, goes viral on social media
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — There's an upswing in monkey business in and around a state park in Florida, where bands of non-native rhesus macaques live along a river that's popular with kayakers and tourists. Officials have closed two walking a...
Robots, rappelling, rifles: Showcase of special ops gadgets
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — It's like a supermarket for Navy SEALs. A grocery store for Green Berets. A Costco for commandoes. It's a conference for military special operations forces and their gadgets, weapons and tools. The Special Operations Forces I...
New 3D technology raises hopes for the coldest of cold cases
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The faces are haunting. They stare, straight ahead, unblinking and made of malleable clay. There are fourteen total, all busts of the missing, the unidentified, the murdered. The forgotten. These faces appeared before law enforceme...
