Hurricane Willa weakens to tropical storm after making landfall on Mexico's west coast

Hurricane Willa made landfall Tuesday night on the west-central coast of Mexico as a strong Category 3 storm with winds of 120 mph but rapidly weakened to a tropical storm. The storm, which had briefly reached Category 5 status Monday, arrived around 9 p.m. EDT near Isla del Bosque, Sinola, about 50 …