iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BERN, N.C.) — First responders in North Carolina are scrambling to rescue residents stranded due to raging floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence. Officials in New Bern, a coastal town in Craven County, North Carolina, said at least 150 people were “awaiting rescue” early Friday morning as the dangerous hurricane […]
NOAA via Getty Images(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Massive Hurricane Florence, with tropical storm-force winds hundreds of miles wide, was bearing down on the Carolinas Thursday, pounding the coast with driving rain and powerful waves. Officials on Thursday made last-minute pleas to residents to evacuate before the dangerous storm surges take over. […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Firefighters in Massachusetts are battling dozens of fires believed to have been caused by gas explosions. The Massachusetts State Police Watch Center has responded to 39 different addresses spread across dozens of block in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover — in Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley, the department wrote on […]
ABC News(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Many health care facilities have been evacuated along the southeastern U.S. coast, as Hurricane Florence threatens the region. But at the Davis Community assisted living facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, they’re sheltering in place. “Those people who are critical care … it would be difficult for […]
WFAA-TV(DALLAS) — Hundreds of friends, loved ones and work colleagues of a 26-year-old man shot to death by a Dallas police officer in his own apartment filled a Texas church Thursday to celebrate his life and condemn the actions that “snatched” him in his prime. Botham Jean was recalled by […]
Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/TNS via Getty Images(WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C.) — Don’t be fooled by Hurricane Florence’s weakening category — the powerful storm still poses the same dangers at a Category 2 as it did as a Category 4, the forecasts show. Hurricane categories are determined by the wind speeds […]
NOAA via Getty Images(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Hurricane Florence’s tropical storm-force winds are starting to lash North Carolina and officials are imploring residents to evacuate before the dangerous storm surges and flooding take over. Here is the latest: — Tropical storm-force winds will continue to move across North Carolina’s Outer Banks […]
ABC News(LUMBERTON, N.C.) — A town in North Carolina that remained under floodwaters for days after Hurricane Matthew is again bracing for another powerful storm. Hurricane Matthew hammered the southeastern United States in October 2016, devastating entire communities and killing dozens of people — many in North Carolina, which experienced […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BAKERSFIELD, Calif.) — The suspect in a string of shootings in Bakersfield, California, that left six people dead on Wednesday has been identified as a 54-year-old man who may have been going through a divorce with his wife, according to local authorities. Investigators believe that Javier Cazarez, a legal, permanent […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Florence weakened to a Category 2 on Wednesday, but it’s still expected to bring “life-threatening” surges and rainfall to the Southeast, meteorologists warned. Forecasters downgraded Florence, once a Category 4, to a dangerous Category 2 hurricane late Wednesday as the storm made its way toward the […]
