Tropical Storm Fred weakened to a depression and spawned several apparent tornadoes in Georgia on Tuesday as it dumped heavy rains into the Appalachian mountains along a path that could cause flash floods as far north as upstate New York.

The South Carolina Department of Insurance (SCDOI) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to transfer insurance fraud enforcement to the SCDOI.

Port Royal bore the brunt of the area's damage from Tropical Storm Elsa earlier this month when a tornado hit downtown. But the storm also spawned a large wave that crashed into an isolated area of the town's waterfront, cracking more than 30 wooden pilings at the former state-owned terminal building.

Tropical Storm Elsa is making landfall along northern Florida's Gulf Coast, in Taylor County, the National Hurricane Center said.

Tropical Storm Danny formed Monday afternoon off South Carolina's coast, and forecasters said the storm is expected to race inland over the U.S. Southeast while dumping several inches of rain in some spots.

Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is cracking down on unnecessary emergency room visits with a new policy starting July 1 that the American Hospital Association says will jeopardize patients' health and threaten them with financial penalties.

Toyota expanded a worldwide fuel pump recall to a total of 5.84 million vehicles for a defect that could cause the part to fail. In the United States, the total number of vehicles involved in this safety recall is now approximately 3.34 million vehicles.

On 16 September, Hurricane Sally made landfall on Wednesday near Mobile Bay, Ala., and the western portion of the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 storm with destructive winds of 105 mph, causing significant rain and storm surge.

The remnants of Hurricane Sally are dropping torrential rain on southeastern states - and its center was still in Alabama early Thursday, more than 24 hours after making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane. The storm has brought rainfall that is being measured in feet, not inches, in many places.

The city of Charleston, South Carolina filed a lawsuit against two dozen of the largest pipeline and oil conglomerates, saying the firms are responsible for making the floods that often hit the port city more frequent and more damaging.

A peach recall has expanded to include loose peaches and peach products after 78 people were sickened in 12 states by salmonella poisoning linked to the fruit, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

As Hurricane Laura bears down on the Gulf Coast, residents are preparing for what could be a historic storm surge.

Isaias is racing up the East Coast, dumping between 2 and 6 inches in much of the D.C. region and spawning numerous tornadoes from Central Virginia through Southern Maryland — though the worst of the storm appears to be past us.

Isaias was forecast to be near hurricane strength as it approached the Carolinas Monday, just a day after bands of heavy rain from the tropical storm lashed Florida’s east coast.

If the weather system meandering through the Southeast develops, it will become Tropical Storm Fay, the sixth named system of the Atlantic hurricane season.