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The National Hurricane Center says a trough of low pressure is currently producing a large but disorganized area of thunderstorms along and just offshore the Texas and Louisiana coasts.

A 60-year-old North Carolina man was found dead in Grand Canyon National Park on Wednesday, park officials said.

There are two tropical disturbances in the eastern Atlantic. Tropical Disturbance #1 is the one we've been watching to see if it can consolidate around a defined center of circulation. The National Hurricane Center has the odds in the medium range that it will develop into at least a tropical depression late in the weekend or next week as it tracks toward the Caribbean islands. If it's going to develop, it will more likely wait until it's in the Caribbean Sea.

A Missouri bald eagle is battling for survival following a gunshot injury that nearly split his beak in two. The raptor has undergone three surgeries to repair the extensive damage, but his prognosis remains guarded.

Thousands of Michiganders are still without power after severe storms earlier in the week tore across the state as they are bracing for another round of potentially destructive weather Friday.

Start your day with the latest weather news: ‘X’ now marks not just one spot, but two spots again in the Atlantic basin tropics as the NHC has added a new potential tropical disturbance to monitor for development just emerging off the west coast of Africa.

A group of researchers is warning that testing around a Los Alamos, New Mexico neighborhood has revealed what it calls "alarmingly high levels of plutonium." But to Department of Energy officials, the area remains safe.