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  • Keith Curo of Pasadena, Calif., stops to look over the damage caused by a fallen tree at a Shell gas station on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Pasadena. Some of the worst winds in years blasted through California overnight, with gusts up to 97 mph. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)

    Strong winds down trees, power lines in West

    Some of the worst winds in years blasted through California overnight, sweeping through canyons, gusting up to 97 mph, and toppling trees and trucks while knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.


  • American Scene

    Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaska lake and one of them crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard, authorities said. The second plane landed safely despite significant damage.


  • A float plane sits on the side of the runway at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage Alaska after making an emergency landing on July 30, 2011. The plane collided mid-air with a Cessna 180 in the Trapper Creek area. The Cessna 180 crashed to the ground and burned, killing at least two people on board, authorities said. (Associated Press)

    Police: Planes collide over Alaska, 4 dead

    Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaskan lake and one of them crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard, authorities said. The second plane landed safely despite significant damage.


  • This photo provided by passenger Christine Ziegler shows an apparent hole in the cabin on a Southwest Airlines aircraft Friday, April 1, 2011, in Yuma, Ariz. Authorities say the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., was diverted to Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane. (AP photo/Christine Ziegler)

    Fuselage hole forces Southwest emergency landing

    A "gunshot-like sound" woke Brenda Reese as her Southwest Airlines flight cruised at 36,000 feet. Looking up, she could see the sky through a hole torn in the cabin roof.


  • American Scene

    A plane crash at Long Beach airport killed five people and injured a sixth on Wednesday, authorities said.


  • Luna Campos (center) of Copenhagen, along with her husband, Albert Campos (right), is happily greeted by sister-in-law Ana Campos (left) as passengers from diverted United Flight 967 arrive at Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Richard Hartog)

    Feds launch probe into flight hit by turbulence

    The government on Wednesday began investigating how a United Airlines jetliner hit severe turbulence on a cross-country flight over Kansas, injuring at least 22 and jolting one woman out of her seat so forcefully that she left a crack when she hit the side of the cabin, authorities and a witness said.


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Utility crews shut off the natural gas flow to one of the two homes hit by a plane this weekend in Compton, Calif.

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