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September 25, 2018 at 1:48 pm

Virginia suspends tampon ban for prison visitors

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia is suspending a newly introduced policy that would have barred women who visit inmates at state prisons from wearing tampons...

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September 23, 2018 at 6:19 am

Florence the week after: Thousands brace for more flooding VIEW

BLADENBORO, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of coastal residents remained on edge Sunday, told they may need to leave their homes because rivers are still rising...

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September 21, 2018 at 9:08 pm

NC river swirls with gray muck near flooded coal ash dump VIEW

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant...

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September 21, 2018 at 9:04 pm

Travel still dangerous in flooded areas of North Carolina VIEW

BLADENBORO, N.C. (AP) — Travel remained dangerous Saturday in southeastern North Carolina, where the governor warned of "treacherous" floodwaters more than a week after Hurricane...

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September 21, 2018 at 8:44 am

Flooding: Dam breach at Duke plant; coal ash could spill VIEW

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Florence's floodwaters breached a dam holding back a large reservoir at a Wilmington power plant Friday, and coal ash from an...

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Jose Perez-Santiago, right, holds his daughter Jordalis, 2, as they return to their home for the first time since it was flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. “I didn’t realize we would lose everything,” said Perez-Santiago. “We’ll just have to start from the bottom again.” (AP Photo/David Goldman) NCDG136 NCDG136

September 20, 2018 at 9:08 pm

Reckoning with loss of homes, livelihoods after Florence VIEW

SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) — With Florence's floodwaters receding in some places and still menacing others, tired and waterlogged North Carolinians are finally getting a...

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In this Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 photo. released by Cape Fear River Watch, gray water containing coal ask flows from a ruptured landfill at the L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C., and flows toward Sutton Lake, near the Cape Fear River. Duke Energy says it’s initial estimate is that about 2,000 cubic yards (1,530 cubic meters) of ash were displaced at the landfill, enough to fill about 180 dump trucks. The photo was taken by Kemp Burdette with the Cape Fear River Watch, an environmental advocacy group. (Kemp Burdette/Cape Fear River Watch via AP) AX201 AX201

September 19, 2018 at 10:20 pm

Floodwaters inundate lake at NC power plant, raising alarm

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby...

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People drive along a flooded area as Hurricane Florence swept through the area in Wilmington, N.C., on Sept. 14, 2018. Florence, lashing the North Carolina coast with strong winds and blinding rain, made landfall Friday morning having already driven dangerous storm surges of several feet into beach and river towns. The eye of the storm came ashore at Wrightsville Beach, N.C., just east of Wilmington, with winds of about 90 miles an hour. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times) XNYT4 XNYT4

September 19, 2018 at 9:26 pm

Florence-weary South Carolina could get more record flooding WATCH

"I'm just ready for this to be over, to be honest" said Evan Jones, a student who evacuated from Wilmington and doesn't know when he...

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September 19, 2018 at 9:41 am

Fire that killed couple, 86, shows Florence’s broad reach

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — When Florence knocked the power out Friday evening in a leafy, Fayetteville, North Carolina, subdivision, Mary Kennedy checked in with her...

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On Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, white supremacist groups clashed with hundreds of counter-protesters during the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. Dozens were injured in skirmishes and many others after a white nationalist plowed his sports car into a throng of protesters. One counter-protester died after being struck by the vehicle. The driver of the car was caught fleeing the scene and the governor of Virginia issued a state of emergency. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/Zuma Press/TNS) 1237406 1237406

August 8, 2018 at 12:29 pm

Emergency declared ahead of Charlottesville anniversary

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville on Wednesday declared a state of emergency ahead of the one-year anniversary...

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