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Weakened hurricane lashes Bahamas after 21 deaths

A weakened Hurricane Sandy lashed the central Bahamas late Thursday with violent winds and torrential rains, after raging through the Caribbean where it caused at least 21 deaths and forced postponement of a hearing at the Guantanamo naval base on Cuba.State media in Cuba said Sandy toppled houses, ripped off roofs and killed 11 people in the eastern provinces of Santiago and Guantanamo as it roared over the island as a category 2 storm early Thursday. Nine deaths were reported in Haiti and one in Jamaica.By late Thursday, Sandy had slowed to a category 1 hurricane, but forecasters warned that it will likely blend with a winter storm to cause a super storm in the eastern U.S. next week whose effects will be felt along the entire Atlantic Coast and inland to Ohio.Some further weakening in Sandy was forecast during the next 48 hours, but it was expected to remain a hurricane.Late Thursday, the hurricane's center was 185 miles (300 kilometers) east-southeast of Freeport on Grand Bahama Is...

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  1. Tropical Storm Bonnie swirls through Bahamas , on track to hit oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

    NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tropical Storm Bonnie steamed through the central Bahamas on Thursday night while tracking a course that could take it over the site of the Gu...

  2. Tropical Storm Bonnie swirls through Bahamas , on track to hit oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

    NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tropical Storm Bonnie steamed through the central Bahamas and was approaching the Florida Keys on Friday along a course that is expected to cr...

  3. Police Hunt for 'Barefoot Bandit' in Bahamas After Island Crash Landing

    NASSAU, Bahamas — A teenage thief who police say has brazenly made his way across the U.S. has apparently graduated to international fugitive, crash-landing a stolen...

  4. Nassau , Bahamas in line for restoration

    The city of Nassau in the Bahamas is getting a facelift after years of neglect.Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham says a slew of public works projects to improve streets...

  5. Bahamas police probe fatal shooting of US man

    Bahamian police are investigating the killing of an American man who was working on a sailboat passing through the capital of the island chain.Police Supt. Paul Roll...

  6. Police in Bahamas probe fatal shooting of Chicago man

    Bahamian police are investigating the killing of an American man who was working on a sailboat passing through the capital of the island chain.Police Supt. Paul Roll...

  7. Plane carrying 2 crashes off Bahamas ; 1 body found

    Bahamian searchers recovered the body of a man who was one of two people aboard a small plane that crashed Tuesday into the Atlantic Ocean off the most populated isl...

  8. Bahamas government seeks to help more than 100 homeless migrants after fire guts shantytown

    Bahamian authorities are working to provide new housing for more than 100 people who were left homeless after a fire wrecked a crowded shantytown filled mostly with ...

  9. Anna Nicole Smith Looking for a New House in the Bahamas

    Anna Nicole Smith is house-hunting in the Bahamas, where a former boyfriend is seeking to oust her from a waterfront home where she has taken refuge since the death ...

  10. Travel: Bahamas in 5...

    Hearing "Islands in the Stream" should inspire you to do more than change your radio station. Before Dolly Parton and the Bee Gees made it the centerpiece of their p...

  11. Two Killed as Frances Hits Bahamas

    Hurricane Frances ( search ) snapped trees, tore apart houses and flooded neighborhoods Saturday as it churned through the Bahamas, leaving at least two people dead....

  12. U.S. Teen Known as 'Barefoot Bandit' Arrested in Bahamas After Cops Shoot Out Boat Engine

    NASSAU, Bahamas -- For two years he stayed a step ahead of the law -- stealing cars, powerboats and even airplanes, police say, while building a reputation as a 21st...

  1. Sandy leaves Bahamas after killing 43 in Caribbean

    Hurricane Sandy spun away from the Bahamas late Friday after causing 43 deaths across the Caribbean, churning northward toward the U.S. East Coast, where it threaten...

  2. Tropical Storm Franklin Heads for Bahamas

    Tropical Storm Franklin threatened the Bahamas ( search ) with wind and rain, but Florida and the rest of the southeast U.S. coast were likely to be spared unless it...

  3. East Coast braces for '$1B' storm as Hurricane Sandy barrels through Bahamas

    Emergency management teams and utilities along the East Coast are bracing for what could be a $1 billion punch as Hurricane Sandy's 100 mph winds barrel toward the h...

  4. Bahamas in 5...

    Hearing “Islands in the Stream” should inspire you to do more than change your radio station. Before Dolly Parton and the Bee Gees made it the centerpiece of their p...

  5. Bahamas opposition official has apparent heart attack after campaign event

    Charles Maynard, the chairman of the main opposition party in the Bahamas and a former cabinet minister, died Tuesday while campaigning for a candidate in a parliame...

  6. Teams from Bahamas , US search for Haitians whose boat capsized off Abaco

    A police official in the Bahamas says the search has resumed for at least 10 missing Haitians whose boat capsized as they headed to the U.S.Assistant Superintendent ...

  7. Bahamas hands eviction notices to 1,500 Haitians from settlement of shacks built 30 years ago

    NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — An estimated 1,500 Haitians are to be evicted from a cluster of overcrowded shacks on a Bahamian island east of Miami, leaving residents and t...

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