Hurricane Melissa has become one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic. Melissa is hours away from making landfall over Jamaica as an extremely dangerous major hurricane, the ...

By Sarah Morland KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa churned north-east toward Cuba's second-largest city on Tuesday as a ...

Melissa directly hit Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the nation.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Two Toledo sisters celebrating a birthday trip are stranded in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. Tonae Crayton and her sister ...

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded — with the United Nations declaring the disaster “the storm of the century.” Melissa smashed into Jamaica’s ...

As Hurricane Melissa rages across Jamaica, even those reporting the news have been struck by the severity of the storm that has officially been marked a category 5 — the highest category on the Saffir ...

So far, the Atlantic has seen 13 named systems during hurricane season, with Erin, Humberto and Melissa reaching Category 5—the strongest rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ...

Founded in Santa Barbara in 1948 by Holocaust refugee William Zimdin, Direct Relief began as a small, personal effort to send supplies to war-torn Europe, Morain explained. “According to our history, ...

In South Florida, home to the nation's second-largest Jamaican community, a large effort is underway to send aid to the hurricane-ravaged island.