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Authorities say eight people have died in the Dominican Republic in a landslide triggered by Hurricane Gustav.

Associated Press - August 27, 2008 9:23 AM ET SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Authorities say eight people have died in the Dominican Republic in a landslide triggered by Hurricane...

Authorities say eight people have died in the Dominican Republic in a landslide triggered by Hurricane Gustav. The civil defense agency director says the victims who died overnight in the capital of Santo Domingo were members of one family.

Matthew McCormick is on the Needham High School baseball team, and has also played Babe Ruth and participated in Needham’s Summer League. But after traveling to the Dominican Republic and playing baseball there through a program sponsored by the Boston Red Sox, it wasn’t the baseball that stuck out most in Matthew McCormick’s mind.

Wed, Aug 27, 2008 (6:39 a.m.) Authorities say eight people have died in the Dominican Republic in a landslide triggered by Hurricane Gustav. The civil defense agency director says the victims who died overnight in the capital of Santo Domingo were members of one family.

Plastic clog manufacturer Crocs has launched a recycled footwear donation programme and will donate 10,000 pairs of its shoes to the children in impoverished regions of the Dominican Republic.

Eight people die in a landslide in the Dominican Republic as Hurricane Gustav, now a tropical storm, blows through.

Cyclone "Gustav," causing on Tuesday heavy rains in Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba, has aroused the affected countries' alert for a possible hurricane in the region. The Dominican government has declared a state of emergency in four provinces: San Juan de la Maguana, San Jose de Ocoa, Azua and National District, and has made decisions on supplies for the affected people. Cuba on Tuesday ...

The seventh tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is threatening to hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic, meteorology services of Santo Domingo warned Monday. Formed Monday in Central Caribbean waters, tropical storm Gustav is a low pressure system off the southwest coast of Haiti, some 400 km from the Dominican Republic. Gustav threatens to bring strong winds, electrical discharges ...

Hurricane warnings were issued for parts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Monday as tropical storm Gustav churned toward the island on a path that may also take it over Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida.