The Federal Aviation Administration says nine people are missing and feared dead in the crash of a helicopter carrying firefighters in Northern California.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has declared a state of emergency in the county hit by a storm with winds of up to 110 mph.The storm in Perry County in east-central Ohio damaged buildings and uprooted trees and power lines early Tuesday.Strickland’s...

Officials in one central Ohio county have declared a state of emergency as they clean up damage caused by high wind that knocked down trees and power lines.Perry County Emergency Management executive director Rita Spicer says no one was injured.The...

Scattered showers forecast for California’s northern mountains Sunday are unlikely to extinguish wildfires that still threaten homes and could bring more lightning to the charred region, fire officials said.The weather system is not expected to bring...

Firefighters are looking to scattered showers forecast for California’s northern mountains to help rein in the last wildfires still keeping people from their homes.Residents of Junction City remained under mandatory evacuation orders for a third day...

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled three new ads Friday in the upcoming primary states of Oregon and Kentucky, including one that pokes fun at Washington pundits fixated on the presidential horse race.Shrugging off rival Barack Obama’s formidable...