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Two of the nation's biggest package shippers hit the road Thursday, scrambling to deliver boxes to angry customers who didn't receive the gifts they ordered in time for Christmas.
What happened when about 165 elderly residents and residents with disabilities had to be evacuated from their Toledo, Ohio, apartments because of a top-floor water main break earlier this month? Union members and the Toledo Region of the American Red Cross came to the rescue. UAW Local 12 opened its hall to those in need of shelter. Volunteers who pitched in to help included members of the UAW, the Ohio Nurses Association, UFCW—and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) members, who transported the displaced residents to the shelter.
Hundreds of firefighters supported by helicopters, bulldozers and engines were early Thursday battling a wildfire which had been fanned by strong Santa Ana winds outside Los Angeles, officials said.The 10-acre blaze had spread rapidly due the high wind and low humidity.
Tens of thousands in the Northeast and Midwest who spent Christmas in the dark and cold after a vicious ice storm are likely to be waiting until the weekend for their power to be restored, utility firms said early Thursday.
OAKLAND, Calif. — The family of a 13-year-old Northern California girl declared brain dead after suffering complications following a tonsillectomy was trying to give the girl as normal of a Christmas as possible, with a tree and presents in her hospital room, her uncle said.
LOS ANGELES — Unseasonably balmy weather settled over Southern California on Wednesday as a region already accustomed to celebrating Christmas without snow experienced temperatures some 15 degrees above normal.
The Grinch has company.Thousands of Americans awoke to find that special something missing from beneath the Christmas tree Wednesday, a day after UPS acknowledged getting swamped by the seasonal cheer and failing to deliver orders in time.
A fire tore through a Louisiana mobile home early Christmas morning, killing three young siblings and injuring their father and mother.
Christmas cheer was hard to come by Wednesday in parts of Michigan and Maine, where more than 200,000 homes and businesses remained without electric power for a fourth day.Utility crews worked through the holiday to try to restore electricity cut off by a severe ice storm Sunday.
A terminally ill girl who received support from thousands of Christmas carolers outside her eastern Pennsylvania home over the weekend died early on Christmas morning, her family said. Delaney Brown, 8, of West Reading, Pa.
