1.
Study: More than half of pets overweight
HAVANA, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hurricane Paloma came ashore in Cuba late Saturday, hitting an area already battered by other storms this season.
Ham radio operators in Camaguey and Santa Cruz del Sur reported most communications out as the storm approached, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Two hurricanes hit Cuba in late August and early September.
"Paloma will finish us off," Irene Requejo told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Paloma, a dangerous Category 4 storm when it made landfall, lost both force and forward speed over land, the hurricane center said. At 10 p.m. EST, the maximum sustained winds had dropped to 115 mph from 145 mph with hurricane winds extending 30 miles and tropical storm winds 115 miles from the center.
The center of the storm was 35 miles south-southeast of Camaguey and 70 miles north of Cabo Cruz, moving north at about 7 mph.
The hurricane was expected to pass over Cuba Sunday morning, headed for the Bahamas, where a tropical storm warning was posted.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional Top News Stories | |
DETROIT, Feb. 14 (UPI) --
The Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 shouldn't receive life in prison for the failed attack, his legal adviser said.
|
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 14 (UPI) --
Hollywood's Paramount Pictures says director Michael Bay is to helm a fourth Transformers movie to be released in 2014.
|
BAGHDAD, Feb. 14 (UPI) --
U.S. supermajor Exxon Mobil won't be able to take part in an oil and natural gas licensing auction scheduled for May in Iraq, a spokesman said.
|
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Feb. 14 (UPI) --
Texas police said they arrested an 18-year-old woman who led them on a chase while wearing nothing but a pair of cowboy boots.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
