This month marks the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Agnes, which devastated large portions of Pennsylvania and the rest of the Mid-Atlantic region in 1972. After making landfall in Florida as a ...

Fifty years have gone by but it is impossible to forget the devastation Hurricane Agnes brought to the region, from over a foot of rain to rivers overflowing their banks with ease. It seemed like a ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A monument to forgotten history, St. Agnes Hospital has been untouched for so long that trees have begun growing inside its stone walls. It's hard to imagine this was once the most ...

Agnes made landfall near Panama City, Florida as a “minimal hurricane” (Category 1). It weakened to a Tropical Storm by the time it hit near New York City on June 23rd, 1972. And then it weakened to a ...

The legacy of Hurricane Agnes is evident in the words researchers, meteorologists and state officials use to describe the storm — devastating, catastrophic, historic, deadly. “I would say, especially ...

(WHTM) — It was the most costly natural disaster in American history, and it hit Pennsylvania the hardest. The story of Agnes begins on June 11, 1972, when ripples in the atmosphere appear in the ...

Agnes is one of those seven women (along with Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy et al.) mentioned in the First Eucharistic Prayer. All seven were martyrs. We met St. Lucy last month. We’ll meet St.