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March 19, 2019 at 9:36 pm

Mueller’s fans venerate him — and nervously await report VIEW

Her family wanted a puppy, so Alicia Barnett dreamed they would find one that was smart, steady and a bit mysterious. She hoped their new...

Doug Biggers, whose 20-year-old son, Landon, died of opioid overdose in 2017, breaks down while talking about his son in La Quinta, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. For years Doug lived in shame, keeping Landon’s addiction secret. He wasn’t ashamed of his son but rather himself. Co-workers would talk about their children, going to college, getting married. Then they’d ask about his. “How do you explain he’s living in his car in a Walmart parking lot and trapped in a cycle of drug use and despair?” he asks. “How broken was this family that this could happen?” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

January 27, 2019 at 9:01 pm

After the overdose: A family’s journey into grief and guilt VIEW

Landon Biggers, age 20, was one of 70,237 Americans to die of overdose in 2017. The opioid death count has climbed higher than 400,000 as...

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JAN. 28, 2019 AND THEREAFTER-Cheryl Juaire walks past a photo of her son, Corey Merrill, at her home in Marlborough, Mass., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Corey overdosed on heroin at 23 years old in 2011, just as the opioid crisis was turning into catastrophe. She now runs an online support group for parents who lost their children to overdoses. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) NY462 NY462

January 27, 2019 at 9:01 pm

Moms of those who died from drugs: 'Where is the outrage for us?' WATCH

"It’s like an airplane full of commuters crashing every single day,” said one mother, of addiction's deadly toll. She's on a mission to let grieving...

January 27, 2019 at 9:01 pm

After the overdose: A family’s journey into grief and guilt VIEW

LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — There is nothing left to do, no more frantic phone calls to make, no begging or fighting that can fix...

January 27, 2019 at 9:01 pm

Moms of the dead from drugs: “Where is the outrage for us?” VIEW

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The moms meet in a parking lot overlooking the little funeral home and watch mourners drifting toward the chapel doors —...

This undated photo provided by NASA shows SOFIA over the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains with its telescope door open during a test flight. The world’s largest airborne observatory was supposed to be parked in Seattle this week, so thousands of scientists attending the “Super Bowl of Astronomy” could behold this marvel: a Boeing 747, like this one shown, for example, outfitted with a massive telescope used to study the fundamental mysteries of the universe. (Jim Ross/NASA via AP) NYHK705 NYHK705

January 6, 2019 at 4:31 pm

In Seattle and around U.S., shutdown keeps hundreds of federal scientists from conferences

The impact stretches well beyond empty chairs at this week's conferences, said one group's leader. It means some of the nation's smartest scientific minds are...

November 22, 2018 at 9:05 pm

In era of online retail, Black Friday still lures a crowd VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — It would have been easy to turn on their computers at home over plates of leftover turkey and take advantage of...

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People sit in a long line of bumper to bumper traffic on US 421 in Harrells, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018 as they try to make their way toward Wilmington, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) NCCB110 NCCB110

September 19, 2018 at 1:20 pm

Frustration builds as Carolina residents wait to go home WATCH

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Exhaustion and frustration are building in the Carolinas as thousands of people wait to go home days after Hurricane Florence unleashed...

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September 17, 2018 at 9:41 pm

North Carolina residents consider fleeing as rivers rise

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The river seethed a quarter-mile away, bulging from its banks, so the patrol cars circled the neighborhood three times. "Get out...

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In this Sunday afternoon, Sept 16, 2018 photo, Waheeda Reese watches it rain from a window in her home in a mandatory evacuation area in Fayetteville, N.C. The Cape Fear River that runs about a quarter-mile away from her subdivision is expected to crest Tuesday, and authorities have ordered people within a mile of its banks to get out immediately. (AP Photo/Claire Galofaro) AX602 AX602

September 17, 2018 at 9:50 am

In Carolinas, a question as the rivers rise: Stay or go? VIEW

As the days drag on, Hurricane Florence has taken a deceptive turn: The violent winds have subsided and the pounding rain has eased, lulling many...

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