25 May. 20125:33 PM ET

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Bud weakened Friday as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta. Two people, one of them from France, were reported missing in a separate storm in Cuba.

25 May. 20125:00 AM ET

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Bud has weakened to a Category 2 storm in the Pacific as it approaches Mexico's coast.

25 May. 20122:00 AM ET

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Bud strengthened into a major storm and was expected make land Friday in an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on the Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.

24 May. 20125:13 PM ET

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched as a barrel-racing bride wed her bull-riding groom with a twister dropping from the sky just miles away.

24 May. 20122:07 PM ET

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. forecasters predicted Thursday that this year's Atlantic hurricane season would produce a normal number of about nine to 15 tropical storms, with as many as four to eight of those becoming hurricanes.

24 May. 20122:03 AM ET

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Bud has formed off the southwestern coast of Mexico.

23 May. 20129:38 PM ET

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Bud is moving far off of Mexico's Pacific coast and could develop into a hurricane overnight or later Thursday.

23 May. 20124:40 PM ET

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Republican National Convention scheduled in Tampa for late August would be among the casualties if the area were threatened then by a hurricane, Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll said Wednesday.

23 May. 20121:14 PM ET

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — An oceanographer who tracks flotsam says West Coast beachcombers may find floating athletic shoes with human remains as more debris from last year's Japanese tsunami finally washes ashore.

23 May. 20121:42 AM ET

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Carrying small American flags and wearing T-shirts bearing the names of friends and loved ones who died when a massive tornado tore through Joplin one year ago, thousands of people made a somber march Tuesday through some of the town's hardest-hit neighborhoods.

22 May. 20128:42 PM ET

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — From dawn to dusk, residents who lived through the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., last year are remembering the storm and celebrating their survival.

22 May. 20126:41 PM ET

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Much of Joplin has fallen silent to mark the precise moment the city was hit by a tornado one year ago.

22 May. 20122:54 PM ET

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Residents marking the anniversary of the deadly Joplin tornado are marching in a somber procession along the path of the twister.

22 May. 201211:49 AM ET

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A day after President Obama helped Joplin, Mo., bid its high school seniors an emotional farewell, the city is breaking ground on three new schools as part of the rebuilding process.