AFP - Hurricane Felix intensified into a potentially devastating Category Five storm Sunday as it churned its way through the Caribbean toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.

AFP - One person was reported missing in Venezuela as Hurricane Felix grew into a major class-four storm Sunday and threatened to become a level-five super storm as it headed on a track toward Honduras and Belize.

AP - ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane and churned through the Caribbean Sea on a path toward Central America, where forecasters said it could make landfall as "potentially catastrophic" storm.

AFP - Jamaica prepared Sunday for one of the closest general elections in its history, as the second mega-hurricane in two weeks threatened to blast voters with heavy winds and rains.

Reuters - Hurricane warnings were posted for coastal Honduras as a "potentially catastrophic" Hurricane Felix, a top-ranked storm with 165 mile-per-hour winds, threatened Central America on Monday.

AP - Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane and churned through the Caribbean Sea on a path toward Central America, where forecasters said it could make landfall as "potentially catastrophic" storm.

Reuters - Jamaicans cast their votes for a new government on Monday in what was expected to be a close election held under a tropical storm alert for Hurricane Felix to the south and concerns about recent political violence.

Reuters - Hurricane Felix, a potentially catastrophic storm with 160 mile-per-hour winds, threatened on Monday to plow along the Caribbean coast of Honduras and dump torrential rain across Central America.

AP - Hurricane Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm and churned on Monday toward Central America, where forecasters said it could arrive as a "potentially catastrophic" storm. Tourists jammed the airports seeking flights out.

AP - A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.

AFP - Hurricane Felix on Monday lost some of of its massive power to become a category four storm, but remained extremely dangerous and could regain strength as it barreled toward central America, US forecasters said.

AP - Hurricane Felix churned toward Central America on Monday, sending enormous waves crashing to shore as the Category 4 storm drew strength from the warm waters of the Caribbean. Forecasters said it could hit the coast with catastrophic winds shortly after daybreak Tuesday.

Reuters - Hurricane Felix, a potentially devastating storm, barreled toward Honduras where tens of thousands of people prepared to evacuate on Monday in fear of a repeat of a deadly 1998 hurricane.

AFP - Hurricane Felix intensified into a potentially devastating Category Five storm Sunday as it churned its way through the Caribbean toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.

AFP - One person was reported missing in Venezuela as Hurricane Felix grew into a major class-four storm Sunday and threatened to become a level-five super storm as it headed on a track toward Honduras and Belize.

AP - A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.

AP - Planes shuttled tourists from island resorts in a desperate airlift Monday as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize. But thousands of Miskito Indians were stranded along a swampy coastline where the Category 4 storm was expected to make landfall.

AFP - Honduras and Nicaragua braced for the worst and officials ordered thousands of people, including tourists, to find safer ground as Hurricane Felix barreled toward Central America Monday with winds topping 230 kilometers (145 miles) per hour.

Reuters - Tens of thousands of people, including Miskito Indians and foreign tourists, began fleeing low-lying coastal areas on Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the approaching Hurricane Felix.

Reuters - Jamaicans faced down long lines at polling stations, threats of violence and the fringes of a hurricane to vote on Monday in an election that could bring a quick end to the tenure of Jamaica's first woman prime minister.

AP - A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.

Reuters - Thousands of people fled Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the powerful winds and torrential rains of Hurricane Felix, but many others were left to ride out the approaching storm.

AP - Planes shuttled tourists from island resorts in a desperate airlift Monday as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize. But thousands of Miskito Indians were stranded along a swampy coastline where the Category 4 storm was expected to make landfall.

AFP - Honduras and Nicaragua braced for the worst and officials ordered thousands of people, including tourists, to find safer ground as Hurricane Felix barreled toward Central America Monday with winds topping 230 kilometers (145 miles) per hour.

AP - A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.