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Tsunami warning issued for Japan after 7.4-magnitude quake

April 7, 2011

It is the strongest of aftershocks among hundreds that have shaken the region since March 11 quake, tsunami which killed 25,000. View full size A Buddhist monk Sokan Obara, 28, from Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, prays for the victims in the debris in the area devastated by the March 11 tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate…

Gadsden man drowns while swimming in Gulf at Fort Morgan

September 18, 2010

Despite efforts by his 19-year-old daughter to save him, a Gadsden man drowned Friday afternoon after he was caught in a Gulf rip tide at Fort Morgan, Baldwin County Deputy Coroner Rod Steade said today. (File photo) A swimmer died Friday near Fort…

BP begins using heavy machinery to dig up buried oil from Gulf of Mexico spill

August 19, 2010

MOBILE, Ala. — BP PLC this week began digging up oil that his buried a half-foot or more beneath the ground on Baldwin County's beaches, company officials said this afternoon. MOBILE, Ala. — BP PLC this week began digging up oil that his buried…

Adamsville man loses life after diving from cliff

July 26, 2010

Friends tried to rescue him, but could not find him A 22-year-old man who died after diving from a cliff Sunday has been identified as Rayford Chet Downey of Adamsville. Downey’s body was pulled from a swimming hole in the Locust Fork of …