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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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Snow crab fishing season in Japan

taken on Nov. 6, 2023, shows snow crabs unloaded at Tsuiyama port in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, as snow crab fishing season began west of Toyama Prefecture in the Sea of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Fire breaks out in spa resort

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 3, 2015, shows firefighters extinguishing a fire that broke out at the Kinosaki spa resort in the western Japan city of Toyooka crowded with New Year holiday vacationers. Eight buildings, including houses and shops, burnt down, while four others were partially burnt. One person was killed.

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Fire breaks out in spa resort

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 3, 2015, shows firefighters extinguishing a fire that broke out at the Kinosaki spa resort in the western Japan city of Toyooka crowded with New Year holiday vacationers. Eight buildings, including houses and shops, burnt down, while four others were partially burnt. One person was killed.

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Farmer checks chemical-free rice paddy for stork survival

TOKYO, Japan - Ichio Narita checks his chemical-free rice paddy in Toyooka in the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo, known as the home to Oriental white storks, as seen in this file photo taken on May 26, 2014. The population of the bird continues to increase under the city's project to save it from extinction and bring it back into the wild.

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Light aircraft overruns runway

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 21, 2013, shows firefighters examining the site where a light aircraft crashed into a grove after overrunning the runway as it made an emergency landing at Tajima Airport in the city.

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Alpinist Kuriaki wins adventurer's award

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese alpinist Masatoshi Kuriaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2011. He received the Naomi Uemura adventure prize from the government of the city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture. In the background is an image of the late adventurer Uemura.

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Stork egg hatches naturally in the wild

KOBE, Japan - A parent stork cares for its newly-born stork at the Hyogo Prefectural Homeland for the Oriental White Stork in the city of Toyooka in the prefecture. The baby stork was born from an egg laid by artificially-bred oriental white storks that were released into the wild in 2006. In 43 years, it is the first confirmed hatching of an egg laid naturally by storks living in the wild. (Pool photo)

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Stork egg hatches naturally in the wild

KOBE, Japan - A parent stork cares for its newly-born stork at the Hyogo Prefectural Homeland for the Oriental White Stork in the city of Toyooka in the prefecture on May 20. The baby stork was born from an egg laid by artificially-bred oriental white storks that were released into the wild in 2006. In 43 years, it is the first confirmed hatching of an egg laid naturally by storks living in the wild. (Pool photo)

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Small plane crashes after takeoff, killing 2

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo shows the scene at Tajima Airport in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, where a tandem plane crashed and burst into flames just after takeoff on May 3, killing both people on board.

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Season's first haul of snow crabs landed

TOYOOKA, Japan - The season's first haul of snow crabs is landed on the Japan Sea city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 6.

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywhere

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork (top right) released into the wild for the first time in the world in Hyogo Prefecture flies high above people on Sept. 24. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko.

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywhere

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork released into the wild for the first time in the world flies over the paddies in Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 24. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko.

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywhere

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork is released into the wild for the first time in the world in Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 24 in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino (2nd from R) and his wife Princess Kiko (R) -- more than three decades after the species became extinct in the wild in Japan. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka.

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Snow crab fishing in Japan

Snow crabs are landed in the Hyogo Prefecture city of Toyooka, western Japan, after being caught in the Sea of Japan on Nov. 6, 2021.

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Snow crab fishing in Japan

Snow crabs are landed in the Hyogo Prefecture city of Toyooka, western Japan, after being caught in the Sea of Japan on Nov. 6, 2021.

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Snow crab fishing in Japan

Snow crabs are landed in the Hyogo Prefecture city of Toyooka, western Japan, after being caught in the Sea of Japan on Nov. 6, 2021.

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Products of western Japan introduced at Expo Milano 2015

Muneharu Nakagai (C), mayor of the western Japanese city of Toyooka, participates in an event to introduce products of Hyogo Prefecture at the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 on July 16, 2015, (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea releases artificially bred oriental storks for 1st time

An artificially bred oriental white stork is released into the wild in Yesan county, western South Korea, on Sept. 3, 2015. It was one of eight storks released in South Korea's first such attempt to revive the species that had become extinct in the local wilderness by 1971. On the right is Muneharu Nakagai, mayor of the western Japanese city of Toyooka that provided six birds to South Korea for the project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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White stork looks for food in paddy filed in Toyooka

An oriental white stork looks for food in a paddy field in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on June 19, 2015. The city promotes the reintroduction of the bird. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywher

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork released into the wild for the first time in the world flies over the paddies in Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 24. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko. (Kyodo)

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywher

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork is released into the wild for the first time in the world in Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 24 in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino (2nd from R) and his wife Princess Kiko (R) -- more than three decades after the species became extinct in the wild in Japan. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka. (Kyodo)

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywher

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork (top right) released into the wild for the first time in the world in Hyogo Prefecture flies high above people on Sept. 24. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko. (Kyodo)

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Small plane crashes after takeoff, killing 2

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo shows the scene at Tajima Airport in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, where a tandem plane crashed and burst into flames just after takeoff on May 3, killing both people on board. (Kyodo)

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Stork egg hatches naturally in the wild

KOBE, Japan - A parent stork cares for its newly-born stork at the Hyogo Prefectural Homeland for the Oriental White Stork in the city of Toyooka in the prefecture. The baby stork was born from an egg laid by artificially-bred oriental white storks that were released into the wild in 2006. In 43 years, it is the first confirmed hatching of an egg laid naturally by storks living in the wild. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Stork egg hatches naturally in the wild

KOBE, Japan - A parent stork cares for its newly-born stork at the Hyogo Prefectural Homeland for the Oriental White Stork in the city of Toyooka in the prefecture on May 20. The baby stork was born from an egg laid by artificially-bred oriental white storks that were released into the wild in 2006. In 43 years, it is the first confirmed hatching of an egg laid naturally by storks living in the wild. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Season's first haul of snow crabs landed

TOYOOKA, Japan - The season's first haul of snow crabs is landed on the Japan Sea city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 6. (Kyodo)

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Alpinist Kuriaki wins adventurer's award

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese alpinist Masatoshi Kuriaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2011. He received the Naomi Uemura adventure prize from the government of the city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture. In the background is an image of the late adventurer Uemura. (Kyodo)

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Fire breaks out in spa resort

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 3, 2015, shows firefighters extinguishing a fire that broke out at the Kinosaki spa resort in the western Japan city of Toyooka crowded with New Year holiday vacationers. Eight buildings, including houses and shops, burnt down, while four others were partially burnt. One person was killed. (Kyodo)

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Fire breaks out in spa resort

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 3, 2015, shows firefighters extinguishing a fire that broke out at the Kinosaki spa resort in the western Japan city of Toyooka crowded with New Year holiday vacationers. Eight buildings, including houses and shops, burnt down, while four others were partially burnt. One person was killed. (Kyodo)

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Snow crab fishing in Japan

A fishing vessel is prepared to leave port in the Hyogo Prefecture city of Toyooka, western Japan, on the night of Nov. 5, 2020, before the official opening at midnight of the fishing season for snow crab in the region.

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Summer heat in Japan

A family rests in shade amid scorching summer heat in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 6, 2020. The mercury exceeded 37 C in the western Japan city the same day.

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Summer heat in Japan

High school students mop their faces amid scorching summer heat in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 6, 2020. The mercury exceeded 37 C in the western Japan city the same day.

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Summer heat in Japan

High school students mop their faces amid scorching summer heat in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 6, 2020. The mercury exceeded 37 C in the western Japan city the same day.