A Rush to Find Survivors Amid the Mud of Southern California Enclave Rescue workers scoured mud-swollen riverbeds in the wealthy Southern California enclave of Montecito on Wednesday, clutching to the hope that they might find some of the more than a dozen people missing after mudslides swept away about 100 […]
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Mudslides Strike Southern California, Leaving at Least 13 Dead First came the fires. Now come the floods. Heavy rains lashed the hillsides of Santa Barbara County on Tuesday, sending one boy hurtling hundreds of yards in a torrent of mud before he was rescued from under a freeway overpass. His […]
South Florida, brace yourselves for the coldest spell of the season The state of Florida is facing a significant chill starting Wednesday morning and lasting through the weekend, the National Weather Service warns. Already parts of the Panhandle have seen ice form from people’s sprinklers. Will it be of the […]
Traumatic Stress May Alter Boys’ and Girls’ Brains Differently A new brain-scanning study has found that traumatic stress affects the brains of adolescent boys and girls differently. Among youth with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the study found structural differences between the sexes in one part of the insula, a brain […]
