JEFF MARTIN | The Seattle Times

CORRECTS NAME TO LISA, NOT MELODY – Lisa Rawson looks over the possessions she grabbed from her first-floor apartment in Myrtle Beach, S.C., which are now spread out at a campground at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, and her two dogs and a cockatoo Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 in Hampton, Ga. She had a tire blow-out in her minivan before arriving around 3 a.m. Wednesday at the speedway, which has invited hurricane evacuees to stay at its vast campgrounds. (AP Photo/Jeff Martin) GAJM101 GAJM101

September 12, 2018 at 9:24 pm

Speedways, makeshift shelters offer rest to storm evacuees WATCH

HAMPTON, Ga. — Some of the Southerners escaping Hurricane Florence have found refuge in makeshift shelters, including campgrounds at three of the nation's largest motor...

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September 12, 2018 at 2:58 pm

Storm evacuees find refuge at speedways, makeshift shelters WATCH

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Pieces of hurricane evacuee Melody Rawson's South Carolina life are now spread out on a grassy field, a slab of concrete...

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September 11, 2018 at 9:26 pm

East Coast hurricane scenario showed potential for disaster

ATLANTA (AP) — Just months ago, disaster planners simulated a Category 4 hurricane strike alarmingly similar to the real-word scenario now unfolding on a dangerously...

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FILE – In this Sept. 11, 2005, file photo, homes remain surrounded by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Some experts are concerned that Hurricane Florence could inflict damage comparable to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina in a part of the country that is famously difficult to evacuate, months after disaster planners simulated a Category 4 Hurricane strike alarmingly similar to the real-word scenario now unfolding on a stretch of the East Coast. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool, File) NYAG209 NYAG209

September 11, 2018 at 12:02 pm

In simulation, Category 4 hurricane devastated East Coast

"What they were trying to do was create a worst-case scenario, but it's a very realistic scenario," said Joshua Behr, a research professor at Virginia's...

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August 21, 2018 at 5:03 am

With Amazon courting Atlanta, mayor touts “Gulch” project

ATLANTA (AP) — With Amazon.com expected to soon name its site for a second headquarters, Atlanta's mayor said a colossal development planned for downtown represents...

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August 8, 2018 at 6:43 am

Woman tells police she’s a ‘clean, thoroughbred, white girl’

A woman seen speeding through a stop sign at 60 mph (97 kph) told officers they shouldn't arrest her because she's a "very clean, thoroughbred,...

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July 25, 2018 at 1:33 am

Florida’s voting rights battle goes to federal appeals court

ATLANTA (AP) — In a legal showdown over voting rights in the political battleground state of Florida, a group of federal judges asked probing questions...

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July 20, 2018 at 7:58 am

Soaring temperatures, humidity bring dangerous heat in South

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scorching heat was spreading Friday across much of the South, where temperatures are expected to soar over 100 degrees (37.8 Celsius)...

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July 12, 2018 at 7:46 pm

‘Completely free’: No retrial of ex-soldiers in 1992 killing

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Mark Jones says he and two of his Army buddies were out for an impromptu bachelor party when Savannah police arrested...

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July 8, 2018 at 9:10 pm

4-year-old boy finds gun under couch, kills himself with it

ATLANTA (AP) — A 4-year-old Georgia boy found a gun hidden inside his house and shot himself in the head with it, according to a...

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