Big storms hit Mexico on both coasts; 34 dead
By AP Wire Service on Sep 17, 2013, at 2:28 AM Updated on 9/17/13 at 6:18 AM
US & World
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, concluding the case had been tainted by "grotesque prosecutorial misconduct."
A month before he went on the rampage that left 13 dead, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel rooms and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep.
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico's Gulf and Pacific coasts with more torrential rains Monday, flooding towns and cities, cutting off highways and setting off landslides in a national emergency that federal authorities said had caused at least 34 deaths.
The Mexican government said the country had not seen a similar weather crisis since 1958, when the country was simultaneously hit by two tropical storms on separate coasts.
The governor of the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz announced that 12 people died when a landslide smashed into a bus in the town of Altotonga, about 40 miles northwest of the state capital. Gov. Javier Duarte said the death toll could grow as bodies were recovered.
More than 23,000 people fled their homes in the state due to heavy rains, and 9,000 went to emergency shelters. At least 20 highways and 12 bridges had been damaged, the state's civil protection authority said.
Flooding closed the main highway from Mexico City to Acapulco, and power cuts shut the resort city's main airport, isolating many tourists.
Manuel came ashore as a tropical storm Sunday afternoon near the Pacific port of Manzanillo, but quickly lost strength and was downgraded to a tropical depression. It dissipated into an unorganized rain system Monday.
Ingrid was a tropical depression Monday night and was centered about 75 miles west of the coastal town of La Pesca in Tamaulipas.
Original Print Headline: Big storms hit Mexico coasts; 34 dead
US & World
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, concluding the case had been tainted by "grotesque prosecutorial misconduct."
A month before he went on the rampage that left 13 dead, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel rooms and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep.
