Caribbean Fever's Blog – October 2012 Archive (89)

A North Texas congregation is reeling after an attacker rammed a car into a church wall, chased the pastor, and beat him to death with an electric guitar. Police told reporters they didn't know why the unidentified suspect attacked Rev. Danny Kirk Sr., founding pastor of the Greater Sweethome MIssionary Baptist Church.

A North Texas congregation is reeling after an attacker rammed a car into a church wall, chased the pastor, and…

UPDATED Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in the city and the transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway are all out of action after a 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides brought severe flooding to subways and road tunnels (bottom left). Ten people died in New York, including two children, aged 11 and 13, who were…

The hurricane hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night (11:30pm GMT), having laid waste to large parts of the coast throughout the day. New York city shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of Sandy as it zeroed in on the largest city in the US. a 13 foot wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides caused floodwater to rush into the…

UPDATED The U.S. Coast Guard said 42-year-old Claudene Christian was found this evening and is being taken to hospital. It now means 15 of the 16 crew members of the iconic boat are accounted for. As six-metre waves and ferocious gales battered the decks of the 180-foot, three-masted ship, top right, 14 terrified crew-members clambered into life boats. One of them is pictured being guided into the water by a member of the U.S. coastguard,…

Even if residents of the city wanted to travel, there's nowhere for them to go. Nearly all major crossings into and out of the city have been shut down in preparation for Sandy making landfall. The height of the 10-foot storm surge is slated to hit Brooklyn by 8.15pm

• Nearly all bridges and tunnels into and out of New York are closed to the public
• Brooklyn, Manhattan,…

Ria Cooper made headlines last year when she became Britain's youngest sex change patient aged 17 after years of begging her family and the NHS to turn her in to a girl. But now, after living as a women for less than a year the 18-year has decided to change back in to a man after suffering huge mental anguish as a woman.

She has cancelled the full sex change operation that was scheduled for January and ceased the female hormone therapy that has seen her develop…

New York City is on lockdown in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy, as it barrels towards America's largest city, with the entire subway system closed for only the second time in history. The mayor urged residents of New York to stay inside as much as possible starting at sundown tonight, warning of high…

Weather forecasters warned on Sunday that the approaching megastorm which could wreak havoc across 800 miles of the East Coast had the potential be the largest storm ever to hit the United States. With state of emergencies already in existence in New York, New Jersey and Delaware,…