Jeff Martin

A gas pump at a gas station in Silver Spring, Md., is out of service, notifying customers they are out of fuel, late Thursday, May 13, 2021. Motorists found gas pumps shrouded in plastic bags at tapped-out service stations across more than a dozen U.S. states Thursday while the operator of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline reported making “substantial progress” in resolving the computer hack-induced shutdown responsible for the empty tanks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Gas crunch from cyberattack intensifies in nation鈥檚 capital

May 14, 2021 at 10:42 p.m.

Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation鈥檚 largest gasoline...

Cars and a motorcycle are underwater ...

Gulf Coast braces for second round of flooding in Sally鈥檚 wake; high water damages bridges and homes

September 17, 2020 at 11:36 a.m.

Homeowners and businesses along the soggy Gulf Coast began cleaning up Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Sally, even as the region braced for a delayed, second round of flooding.

At least 1 dead, hundreds rescued after Hurricane Sally

September 16, 2020 at 8:54 p.m.

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165 kph) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and forcing the rescue of hundreds...

Hurricane Sally unleashes flooding along the Gulf Coast, hitting Florida-Alabama line

September 16, 2020 at 10:42 a.m.

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore in Alabama with 105 mph (165) winds Wednesday, shoving a surge of seawater onto the coast and bringing torrential rain that forecasters warned will cause dangerous...

Evacuations ordered as Hurricane Laura aims at U.S. coast

August 25, 2020 at 8:59 a.m.

Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate the Texas and Louisiana coasts Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam into land as a major storm...

Atlanta bans electric scooters at night after deadly wrecks

August 8, 2019 at 5:54 p.m.

City officials on Thursday announced a ban on electric scooters and electric bikes from 9 p.m. until 4 a.m. daily. The ban takes effect Friday.

Whitney Flynn, a physical scientist at the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., works on computer screens showing flood predictions and other information in March. (Jay Reeves, Associated Press file)

Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods

September 6, 2019 at 12:54 p.m.

An arsenal of new technology is being put to the test fighting floods this year as rivers inundate towns and farm fields across the central United States. Drones, supercomputers and...

Atlanta development proposal just happens to be Amazon-sized

January 25, 2018 at 8:02 p.m.

As Atlanta vies for Amazon's second headquarters, a developer just happens to be proposing a $5 billion downtown project with 9.3 million square feet (87 million square meters) of office...

Deep South braces for blast of freezing weather as 2017 ends

December 30, 2017 at 8:18 p.m.

Potentially life-threatening cold spread across the Deep South on Saturday, as forecasters issued winter weather advisories in multiple states and warned that freezing temperatures would likely last for the next...

Georgia Dome imploded in downtown Atlanta

November 20, 2017 at 6:19 a.m.

One of the nation's largest domed stadiums has been destroyed in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta.

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