Weather

AP - Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.

AFP - A late-season hurricane took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after helping cause flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.

AP - Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded early Monday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges.

AP - Soldiers and residents dug through rock and debris looking for dozens of people missing when a mudslide covered a town in El Salvador, part of a wave of flooding and landslides that has killed at least 124 people in this Central American country.

AP - The National Weather Service has confirmed it was a tornado that tore through a coastal area of Lincoln City in northwestern Oregon, damaging about a dozen homes.

Reuters - The death toll from flooding and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by the passage of Hurricane Ida jumped to 124 people, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said in a national radio broadcast.

Reuters - At least 91 people died and another 60 or more are missing after floods and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by Hurricane Ida, the government said on Sunday.

AFP - Torrential rains caused by a low pressure system in the Pacific and the tail-end of Hurricane Ida killed some 91 people and left some 60 others missing in El Salvador, civil defense officials here said Sunday.

Reuters - Hurricane Ida weakened further as it headed toward oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and was forecast to make landfall overnight on the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Monday.