Hurricane Sally Lashing Gulf Coast As It Churns At Sluggish Pace

• U.S. Coast Guard says 17,000-acre Santa Rosa Island Fire was possibly started by flares from stranded boater

  

• 8 stranded inside beach cave on California's Central Coast rescued from rising water

  

• Crews searching for missing swimmer in Ocean City

  

• Isolated storms, showers may bring gusty winds, large hail to North Texas

  

• Possible shark bite reported at Maryland's Assateague State Park

  

• Cook County State's Attorney launches new mass transit crime task force

  

• Maryland oyster harvesters could qualify for disaster relief loans after rough season

  

• 1.8-magnitude earthquake hits near Gladstone, N.J.