A Chandler-based distributor of satellite telephones is rushing communications equipment to the ravaged Gulf Coast, which lost most of its conventional land line and cellular telephone service to Hurricane Katrina.

CAIRNS, Australia - The most powerful storm to hit Australia in decades laid waste to its northeastern coast on Monday, mowing down sugar and banana plantations and leaving possibly thousands of people homeless.

LEMONT, Ill. — Tiger Woods' only way out was a 3-iron through a 20-foot wide corridor of fans and 30-foot high canopy of trees. For his next shot, he had to hook a 9-iron around another big tree and try to bounce it up a ramp onto the green.

NEW ORLEANS - Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.

The Arizona Cardinals are headed back to the East, a part of the country that has been so unkind to them.

SOLANA BEACH, Calif. - Beachgoers looking to escape triple-digit temperatures inland stayed cautiously along the water's edge on Sunday as miles of sea front remained closed following a deadly shark attack near San Diego.

I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for 14 years. In fact, I started my job at the Biloxi paper on Aug. 17, 1982. I am able to remember that date because it was the anniversary of Hurricane Camille, which slammed into the coast near Pass Christian, Miss., on Aug. 17, 1969, taking the lives of 172 coast residents.

The worst blizzard in seven years shut down much of the Northeast on Presidents Day with blinding, windblown snow that piled up as much as 4 feet deep and left more than a quarter of a million homes and businesses shivering without power.

Erin Gray of Tempe flew from Boston to Phoenix on Sunday. Her skis didn’t. Stephanie Thrasher’s problem was the opposite. Her bags went to Chicago, but she got bumped off the overbooked plane.

VERACRUZ, Mexico - Hurricane Stan slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast Tuesday, forcing authorities to close one of the nation's busiest ports and spawning related storms across the region that left at least 66 people dead, most from landslides in El Salvador.

WASHINGTON - The jobless rate in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is expected to spike to 25 percent or higher, and when the long rebuilding process begins it's likely the same people the economy had left behind before the storm - the unemployed and working poor - will have the most trouble getting back on their feet.

HAVANA - Hurricane Dennis slammed Cuba’s southern coast with 135 mph winds Friday before slicing across the Caribbean’s largest island, killing at least 10 people and pushing the Caribbean toll to 20.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The family of former Gilbert Highland standout Marquis Cooper and two other football players lost at sea watched as the search entered its third day Tuesday, with odds stacking against their hope the Coast Guard could still find survivors in a chilly sea.

GALVESTON, Texas - About 250 people who withstood Hurricane Ike on a coastal sliver of land will be forced off it so crews can begin the recovery effort, authorities said Tuesday, vowing to invoke emergency powers to make it happen.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The U.S. Air Force will send 300 airmen home from Iraq and Afghanistan to help their families cope with emergencies on an air base devastated by Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Miss., a spokesman said Saturday.

NAVARRE BEACH, Fla. - With a sigh of relief, Gulf Coast residents began hurricane cleanup - again. Hurricane Dennis hit the storm-weary Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast on Sunday with less force than forecasters feared, sparing the region the widespread destruction caused by Ivan last September.

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Hurricane Ivan drilled the Gulf Coast on Thursday with 130-mph winds that inflicted far less damage than feared everywhere except Florida's Panhandle, where residents were left with surge-ravaged beachfronts, flooded streets and homes ripped apart by deadly tornadoes.View slideshow.

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf Coast at daybreak Monday with shrieking, 145-mph winds and blinding rain, submerging entire neighborhoods up to the rooflines in New Orleans, hurling boats onto land and sending water pouring into Mississippi's strip of beachfront casinos