The Advocate spoke with Stone Town, 21, a Louisiana newlywed trapped at a resort on Jamaica, over a shaky phone connection ...

The Baton Rouge natives and their extended family in Jamaica are safe after Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the island ...

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Melissa was a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph as of 7 a.m. Thursday and a hurricane warning was in effect in ...

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A team from the United Cajun Navy traveled from Baton Rouge to Jamaica to help assess damage and coordinate relief efforts in ...

A Baton Rouge couple who traveled to Jamaica for their wedding found themselves sheltering from Category 5 Hurricane Melissa ...

Fueled by abnormally warm Caribbean waters, Hurricane Melissa exploded into a Category 5 cyclone while moving at little more ...

Baton Rouge church families attending a wedding in Jamaica are riding out Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm made ...

The Hurricane Hunters are based on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and are known for tracking hurricanes and flying into eyes or ...

Compounding matters further is the storm's slow crawl – currently three miles per hour. Melissa is projected to dump 20–25 ...