Major hurricane makes landfall
Times Wire Services
Powerful Hurricane Paloma slammed into southern Cuba as authorities scrambled to move hundreds of thousands of people to safer ground.
It made landfall near Santa Cruz del Sur as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, but weakened into a Category 2 with 110-mph winds and torrential rains, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
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